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Most annoying thing on the road?

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  • 09-05-2008 12:32pm
    #1
    zzzzzzzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭


    For me it has to be people turning right at a junction and they won't move in to the junction - they're waiting for the filter light to turn on...

    Most people don't seem to understand that there's a weight sensor under the road and if you don't MOVE INTO THE JUNCTION the filter light will never turn on and you'll be stuck there all day!!!!

    Ahhhh... feeels good to get that off my chest.


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    #2
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    aidan.offbeat wrote: »
    For me it has to be people turning right at a junction and they won't move in to the junction - they're waiting for the filter light to turn on...

    Most people don't seem to understand that there's a weight sensor under the road and if you don't MOVE INTO THE JUNCTION the filter light will never turn on and you'll be stuck there all day!!!!

    Ahhhh... feeels good to get that off my chest.

    Not all junctions have sensors.

    And usually the sensor is in the traffic lane to asses the length of cars waiting at the lights


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    #3
    zzzzzzzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz


    kearnsr wrote: »
    Not all junctions have sensors.

    And usually the sensor is in the traffic lane to asses the length of cars waiting at the lights

    Fair enough - not all junctions have sensors. But a lot of them do.

    About the second part - why doesn't the filter light change unless you move in then? It's definitely a sensor to decide whether or not there is a car waiting to turn right.


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    #4
    zzzzzzzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz


    You can usually see a car-sized cut in the tarmac where you would usually wait to turn right. Either that or a box on the road for you to stop in.


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    #5
    prendy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭prendy


    hidden traffic signs and stupid speed limits wreck my head.


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    #6
    Sagat06
    Registered Users Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭Sagat06


    A car coming around a roundabout indicating right and gets off the exit before while still indicating right... in the meantime you miss your gap cos this tool is too lazy to indicate off the roundabout.

    I'd do time thats all i'm saying!!!!


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    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Tractors and fcukers who drive at 40kmph even though its a 100 zone. Get a fcuking bicycle if you want to travel that slow.


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    Deedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,272 ✭✭✭Deedsie


    DarkJager wrote: »
    Tractors and fcukers who drive at 40kmph even though its a 100 zone. Get a fcuking bicycle if you want to travel that slow.

    I agree 100%, Every morning on my way to work i get caught behind this tool in a 08 Citroen on my way to work. Every morning he's holding up traffic travelling at 60km on the N7 between Nenagh and Roscrea.

    I dont Speed 100Km is fine with me, but this fella takes the mick. I have no doubt he will soon be the cause of an accident.


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    #9
    shrapnel222
    Registered Users Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    the amount of cars that go through red lights does my head in, also feckers who don't get in to the correct lane, obviously the one with the most traffic and then cut back in as far down the road as possible.


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    siralfalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭siralfalot


    DarkJager wrote: »
    Tractors and fcukers who drive at 40kmph even though its a 100 zone. Get a fcuking bicycle if you want to travel that slow.

    impatient feckers trying to kill me and others while trying to overtake tractors in dangerous locations

    I doubt a Bicycle would be usefull for towing a 20 ton trailor, but sure I'll give it a go......... :p


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    The most annoying thing?

    Everybody else but me :D


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    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,231 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    People behind a lorry or something else slowmoving that won't overtake when it is safe to do so.

    People driving with unrestrained kids in the back of the car, they usually have the parcel shelf full of junk blocking the rearview.

    Ugly birds driving Minis.


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    andreas_220D
    Registered Users Posts: 281 ✭✭andreas_220D


    DarkJager wrote: »
    Tractors and fcukers who drive at 40kmph even though its a 100 zone. Get a fcuking bicycle if you want to travel that slow.

    You need to show me a tractor that runs 100 kph...


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    swingking
    Registered Users Posts: 4,258 ✭✭✭swingking


    feckers who think they can skip a traffic queue by driving straight, when they are clearly in a right turn only lane
    :mad:


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    Mena
    Registered Users Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    I'd say pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists for a start!


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    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,231 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    andreas_220D wrote: »
    You need to show me a tractor that runs 100 kph...

    100kph Tractor:D


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    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    aidan.offbeat wrote: »
    Fair enough - not all junctions have sensors. But a lot of them do.

    About the second part - why doesn't the filter light change unless you move in then? It's definitely a sensor to decide whether or not there is a car waiting to turn right.

    It depends on what its purpose is.

    If there is low right turns it could be an on call loop.

    Or it can be triggered by the number of vehicles wanting to turn right.


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    #18
    siralfalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭siralfalot


    bigkev49 wrote: »
    100kph Tractor:D

    :D

    check this one out
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIFYOdzfHVg


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    #19
    zzzzzzzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz


    kearnsr wrote: »
    It depends on what its purpose is.

    If there is low right turns it could be an on call loop.

    Or it can be triggered by the number of vehicles wanting to turn right.

    That would need more than one sensor surely? As far as I know, there should only be one car in the junction?

    Anyway, the junctions I'm talking about definitely have sensors and the filter light definitely doesn't change to green unless you move in to the junction.


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    aidan.offbeat wrote: »
    For me it has to be people turning right at a junction and they won't move in to the junction - they're waiting for the filter light to turn on...

    Most people don't seem to understand that there's a weight sensor under the road and if you don't MOVE INTO THE JUNCTION the filter light will never turn on and you'll be stuck there all day!!!!

    Ahhhh... feeels good to get that off my chest.

    Even if there is no sensor, you should still take control of the junction. I am normally stuck behind cars who won't go forward till they get the filter light, which delays a good few cars.

    One of the junctions is when you are turning right from the N11 onto Anglesea Road - you can see oncoming traffic from quite far away. People waiting till they get the filter before even moving up, let alone turning can delay easily 10 cars getting through.


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    #21
    Dancor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    People driving on the wrong side of the road!!
    I have witnessed this twice in the past month on the Navan road, Just after the Maxol garage heading towards Blanch (me going to town) The first fool was flashing me like I was on the wrong side :mad: then the second, a lady, quickly realised her mistake only after I beeped her.

    Then there are the jabronis who dont position correctly coming to roundabouts and cut other people off :mad:


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    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    dancor wrote: »

    Then there are the jabronis who dont position correctly coming to roundabouts and cut other people off :mad:

    Same :mad:

    Like the person here;
    They're in the red, in left hand lane..use the right hand lane to go straight ahead and myself in the right hand land (green)get cut off because of their stupidity and/or plain laziness to actually turn at a roundabout.

    http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/1631/roundaboutde1.jpg


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    MrPudding
    Registered Users Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    aidan.offbeat wrote: »
    That would need more than one sensor surely? As far as I know, there should only be one car in the junction?

    Anyway, the junctions I'm talking about definitely have sensors and the filter light definitely doesn't change to green unless you move in to the junction.
    That is strange, any of the sensors I have seen have been behind the stop line. Also bear in mind that a lot of filter light have a separate red light and so you cannot cross the line until the filter light come on.

    MrP


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    #24
    landydef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭landydef


    cyclists who cycle beside each other instead of single file,indecisive drivers and people who dont indicate specially on roundabouts :mad:


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    #25
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Not stopping at red lights, there's a newish set of lights near my house and everyday i see cars driving straight through blatantly red lights, it's only i matter of time before someone gets t-boned.
    And another one i have begun to see a lot, is drivers at the top of a cue of traffic taking off when they see pedestrian lights go green, they're obviously not paying any attention suddenly see green and go, i've nearly been run over twice crossing the road when that happens! It happens a lot at the junction between the grange road and nutgrove avenue in Rathfarnham!!


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    #26
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users Posts: 6,389 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    lexus lights! fog lights on in non-foggy conditions! unnecessarily loud exhausts! i could go on but its better this way!


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    #27
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    Whiners who criticise other peoples driving in the solemn belief that they never make a mistake themselves.


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    #28
    Jimbo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Jimbo


    ^ Him and
    people who cut the corner turning right forcing cars on that road to stop. Happens to me all the time. They usually don't even realise what they have done. Morons


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    #29
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    jimbo78 wrote: »
    ^ Him and

    :D


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    Jimbo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Jimbo


    kaizersoze wrote: »
    :D

    :pac::pac::pac:


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    #31
    ART6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    People who tailgate at all speeds and in all weather conditions. A guy wrecked my car and nearly killed me years ago in the UK as a result of doing that. I had to do an emergency stop and he hit me so hard that the drining seat collapsed, leaving me on the back seat rolling up the road. I would take their licences off them for b****y life:mad:


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