What annoys you while driving our roads

Bonito

The Nutty M wrote: »

I'm sorry my man but I have to disagree with you on your theory.I drove a seat leon up the road in front of the truck who tried the same move as you are describing.His excuse to the guard, "Sure I always go around this way". In the end up he forked out for a full bumper respray and a new alloy rim on the truck on top of all the damage done to his own(from the rear quarter panel to the front bumper was scratched or dented). You'll come in the blind spot of artic some day that simply wont be able to see you until it's too late,no amount of this patience you proclaim can make up for your rule breaking and simple ignorance that everyone will make allowance's for you while you complete a manouvre.

Ok from now on I'll go in the inside lane and go all the way around the roundabout 'til I see what exit I want and then I'll go all the way around again and exit properly

Actually, that makes a lot more sense

ballytrim

Tail Wagger wrote: »

You really have it bad!... you should travel on the Dart and you won't have any problems!,,,

Except for actually getting to the Dart from Cork that is!:rolleyes:

GTE

I only ever use the horn when someone does something stupid to me and makes me be thankful of a 4 star NCAP rating.

What I mean is I was driving along a road the other day and someone comes out of a entrance/exit of some sort of building car park to turn right, doesnt stop at the stop line, tries to get to the other side of the road but then realises that the car that was too close in the first place was really very close so she stops. I had to slam on the brakes from about 70kph to avoid slamming into her and the other car she tried to get in front of was closer to her then I was!

I dont agree with horn blowing at roundabouts or junctions, there can be very very good reasons for someone being slow to take off there, whether it be car trouble or the L sign on the window which I think people believe that it means "Oh, here is someone inexperienced, I think Ill pressure and beep this fellow to get him used to the road"

Dont get me started on tailgating!!!!!!!!!! Dear jesus christ almighty, FECK people who tailgate are feckin retarded.

On a side note, I have been using three lane roads for a good while now and I have yet to be annoyed by people who are always in the middle lane. What exactly is annoying everyone about that? Just so I know what look out for and end up hating that :P


EDIT:
OHHH!!!
When I am in a string of traffic in a part of the N4 that has no overtaking for 2km and I am using the two second rule to judge the gap between me and the next car, then when a vehicle over takes me, slashes my two second rule and doesnt make any more progress up the road because the car I was behind was tailgating someone. last time it happened it was a truck over taking me on a bend.

maryxyz

All the 100kph speed limit signs on narrow bendy twisty bumpy back bog roads where there is no question of anyone but a rally driver with an empty road being able to drive at anything near 100kph without going into orbit ! ! !

This insanity has been discussed from time to time in the media and yet the 100kph signs are still there. Why ? They will inevitably cause accidents by leading inexperienced drivers to believe that this is in fact a realistic upper speed limit. What is Gay Byrne doing about it ?

Maryxyz

TheColl

In no particular order:

• People who don't use indicators
• People who can't navigate roundabouts
• People who speed up when you go to overtake them (if you don't want to be overtaken then drive faster!)
• People who drive around with one or more lights gone
• People who block yellow boxes when they're not turning right
• People who text while driving
• People who talk on the phone (unless handsfree) while driving
• People who park in disabled parking spots when they're not entitled to
• People who can't park properly
• People who can park properly but are so ignorant that they don't bother
• Peole who use the hard shoulder as an extra lane in heavy traffic
• Motorcyclists who weave in and out of traffic
• People who drive well below the speed limit when conditions are fine

I also don't like seeing any Nissans, Daewoos or Toyotas on the road because I just don't like them!

EDIT: Also, having read previous post, stupid speed limits! 100kmph on some backroads, 80kmph on the N7 between Naas and Newbridge - it's a dual carriageway ffs!!!

GTE

maryxyz wrote: »

All the 100kph speed limit signs on narrow bendy twisty bumpy back bog roads where there is no question of anyone but a rally driver with an empty road being able to drive at anything near 100kph without going into orbit ! ! !

This insanity has been discussed from time to time in the media and yet the 100kph signs are still there. Why ? They will inevitably cause accidents by leading inexperienced drivers to believe that this is in fact a realistic upper speed limit. What is Gay Byrne doing about it ?

Maryxyz

And then the money (new signs) is spent demoting a 100kph road (that really can handle a speed limit like that) down to 80 to try and get people on the motorway while those roads you talk about are just left with that crazy speed limit.

I cant remember where it was but I was on a very wide road that must have had a 100 limit but was now 80, then the 100 sign came back and it was like a rally track!!

100 speed limit signs with loads of red and white Road Narrowing signs beside it.:rolleyes:

Peole who use the hard shoulder as an extra lane in heavy traffic

If I ever have the balls I may just drive enough into the hard shoulder while being able to keep my space in the lane so I can block those people. . . . . Im an ass :P

Tail Wagger

ballytrim wrote: »

Except for actually getting to the Dart from Cork that is!:rolleyes:

still have it bad, try main line from Cork!

TheColl

bbk wrote: »

If I ever have the balls I may just drive enough into the hard shoulder while being able to keep my space in the lane so I can block those people. . . . . Im an ass :P

I would love to see someone do that! Although you would end up blocking any emergency vehicle that actually needs to use the hard shoulder, so unfortunately those fcukrz will continue to do it.

GTE

TheColl wrote: »

I would love to see someone do that! Although you would end up blocking any emergency vehicle that actually needs to use the hard shoulder, so unfortunately those fcukrz will continue to do it.

HAh, can you imagine? Even if I lost my space in the lane I wouldnt pass the car I was behind in the first place. If I saw that it would make heavy traffic so much more fun.

However, you make the great point about the emergency vehicles. I wish they could fly.

Stoolbend

TheColl wrote: »

• People who speed up when you go to overtake them (if you don't want to be overtaken then drive faster!)

I hate that!:mad:

ballytrim

Audi Q7's or whatever they're called. You know those really big Audi 4x4's! What the feck do you need one of those for? Taking the wee ones to school? Supervalu car park (the one in Trim is mental)? Lidl? Hairdressers...

BMW X5's with tyres wider and slicker than an F1 racing car.

BMW X3's, lets face it they're cr@p and you only got it because you couldn;t afford the X5!

Garda cars with broken lights.

Detour signs that take you off in one direction and are followed up by absolutely shag all!

P.C.

corktina wrote: »

What annoys me?

Irish drivers.

FYP.

GTE

barry81 wrote: »

I hate that!:mad:

I admit I have done that a few times, but only when the person "over taking" was being an ass and trying to undertake me before reaching the car I was over taking in the first place.

P.C.

TheColl wrote: »

• Motorcyclists who weave in and out of traffic

Hahaha

They only pee you off because they don't get held up by the traffic. :P

TheColl

P.C. wrote: »

Hahaha

They only pee you off because they don't get held up by the traffic. :P

Yep, that's true I suppose! But also when you see someone doing it dangerously, really annoys me.

TheColl

ballytrim wrote: »

Audi Q7's or whatever they're called. You know those really big Audi 4x4's! What the feck do you need one of those for? Taking the wee ones to school? Supervalu car park (the one in Trim is mental)? Lidl? Hairdressers...

BMW X5's with tyres wider and slicker than an F1 racing car.

BMW X3's, lets face it they're cr@p and you only got it because you couldn;t afford the X5!

Garda cars with broken lights.

Detour signs that take you off in one direction and are followed up by absolutely shag all!

+1 on all of this!

Tail Wagger

A pal of mine was telling me that he was driving home on the Motorway in the inside lane. He was driving at max road speed 120km indicated overtook the car in his lane as it was dying on the hill. As he was passing the car he spotted a car closing behind him flashing his lights, as he had completed the move the car that was closing, then overtook him by driving half on the road and the grass verge, Thus making three lanes.

The guy who had overtaken him pulled of to the hard shoulder got out of his car at this stage my mate had indicated and pulled into the hard shoulder also. He was with his wife and they were a bit shook up with the experience, This driver who had done the overtaking came back to him and started shouting at him for pulling out in front of him.

My mate looked at this guys car and saw two little kids looking out through the back window. He was feeling sick at the thought that this guy was travelling at about 150km with the kids in the car, He said to me I honestly don't know where the car came from, it was moving so quick. Could he not have just slowed down rather than pass you by I asked, he said as he saw him passing him he moved in to the middle of the road to allow this guy to miss the barrier in the middle of the road.If he had not of done this there could have been many injuries or even death on that road. That was a scary moment he said he'd never forget.....

ballytrim

Tail Wagger wrote: »

A pal of mine was telling me that he was driving home on the Motorway in the inside lane. He was driving at max road speed 120km indicated overtook the car in his lane as it was dying on the hill. As he was passing the car he spotted a car closing behind him flashing his lights, as he had completed the move the car that was closing, then overtook him by driving half on the road and the grass verge, Thus making three lanes.

The guy who had overtaken him pulled of to the hard shoulder got out of his car at this stage my mate had indicated and pulled into the hard shoulder also. He was with his wife and they were a bit shook up with the experience, This driver who had done the overtaking came back to him and started shouting at him for pulling out in front of him.

My mate looked at this guys car and saw two little kids looking out through the back window. He was feeling sick at the thought that this guy was travelling at about 150km with the kids in the car, He said to me I honestly don't know where the car came from, it was moving so quick. Could he not have just slowed down rather than pass you by I asked, he said as he saw him passing him he moved in to the middle of the road to allow this guy to miss the barrier in the middle of the road.If he had not of done this there could have been many injuries or even death on that road. That was a scary moment he said he'd never forget.....

An every day story on our roads.

I bet the rage-machine had a 'Baby on board' sticker in the back window as well and I would also wager that it was either a 4x4 or other perceived 'upmarket' type of car, BMW, Merc etc.

The young ones are always laid out as the bad drivers but in my experience, and I drive the country every week, the worst driving generally comes from such 'respected' middle-aged members of the community who would be aghast at such.

ballytrim

And just one more, now that MOTD is underway!

Parking on double yellow lines outside a Garda station, particularly when it has a car park anyway - like Trim. If the Guards can't be arsed sorting out what's on their own doorstep?...

Testament1

barry81 wrote: »

Young lads in lowered cars swerving everything that resembles a pothole.

I generally try and avoid potholes anyway because i dont particularly fancy making sh!t of my alloys in a pothole..Which leads me to what annoys me while driving our roads: the shockingly bad state of most of the roads in this country..RSA spends so much time talking about road safety, having proper fucking roads in the first place would help greatly decrease accidents!!:mad:

angry_bob

Anan1 wrote: »

This idea that the horn is for giving out seems to be very common - all it should mean is 'I am here'. For example, I always use the horn if i'm undertaking a car blocking the overtaking lane on a motorway. I don't do this to give out, I do it so that they know that i'm there and don't pick that moment to move back into the driving lane.

That's very nice of you, informing an idiot driver that you are performing an illegal manouever. Superb job.

Shems in general...

Stoolbend

Testament1 wrote: »

I generally try and avoid potholes anyway because i dont particularly fancy making sh!t of my alloys in a pothole..Which leads me to what annoys me while driving our roads: the shockingly bad state of most of the roads in this country..RSA spends so much time talking about road safety, having proper fucking roads in the first place would help greatly decrease accidents!!:mad:

While I agree with avoiding potholes I was referring to the mad swerves over the white line for something that resembles a pothole. Every little bump in the road!

SpringerF

I live in the back end of no where.
Since Gormley and his friends introduced their policy of destroying Irish rural community life by allowing housing estates to be built in rural villages we have the situation of hundreds of couples coming to live in the "country" for the first time with their children.
The first thing they feel they must do is buy a 4x4, after all we are in the country now and this is what country people do. Then they drive their 4x4's straight down the middle of the road well this does take up a lot of space on the road, the rest of us in our cars(hic) must drive in the ditches to allow these 4x4's pass us bye, women after all cannot judge distances too well, as testified to by our glorious leader Adolf Gormley and his associate train using "from the country" whats her name black brown whatever,the townies elected her anyway, because true country people just would not be duped by the silly statements accredited to her or indeed to anything associated with her.

Of course the vast majority of these townies living in the country who drive 4x4's vote green................its true

Dont even get me started on how "country" townies driving to the town use roundabouts.........

road planners please note : Roundabouts DO NOT FUNCTION IN IRELAND

Mr. Presentable

Other people

W.Shakes-Beer

Hitting a pot-hole the size of a fúckin toilet bowl.

bandit197

People who amble along increasing and decreasing their speed constantly and then, when I get to a safe stretch and proceed to overtake them, they will make a dive into the hard shoulder as if I was going to run into them. If it isn't such a big deal for them to pull over and let faster traffic through then why not do it before we have snaked along for three miles waiting for a straight stretch.

Also the people who will drive behind a slow driver almost touching their bumper but will not overtake. If you are not in a hurry that's all well and good but please back off from the slower driver in front a bit so that the rest of us dont have to overtake two cars in a row, leave a bit of space for faster traffic to overtake ye one at a time. Thank you

And people who brake when meeting oncoming traffic on a straight road with wide lanes why oh why

susanroth

I hate it when people don't dim their lights:mad:

Mc Love

Brake tippers do my head in

corktina

Tail Wagger wrote: »

You really have it bad!... you should travel on the Dart and you won't have any problems!,,,

I would have huge problems getting to Cork....

TestTransmission

It's gotta be the foglight brigade,muppets who think its cool or something

corktina

TestTransmission wrote: »

It's gotta be the foglight brigade,muppets who think its cool or something

oh ohh...someone said f*g l*g*hts :eek:

TestTransmission

corktina wrote: »

oh ohh...someone said f*g l*g*hts :eek:

Ha,ill say it again!

****ers wreck my head

Yawns

People on a motorway doing about 50 - 60kph

GET THE **** OFF AND USE THE ALTERNATIVE ROUTE IF YOU WANT TO DRIVE SLOWLY!

For Forks Sake

ballytrim wrote: »

BMW X3's, lets face it they're cr@p and you only got it because you couldn;t afford the X5!

Never a truer word spoken.

See also: Audi Q5,

Sofiztikated

Where do I start.

• People that brake every time they see oncoming traffic
• People that swerve every time they see oncoming traffic
• People that indicate WHILE turning, but give no indication as to what the **** they are doing before that
• People that indicate for 3 miles AFTER turning, FFS can you not see/hear the indicator clicking
• People that can't use roundabouts
• Most 4x4 drivers (I say most, as there are still a few that are ok)
• Tailgaters
• People that drive at a constant 45mph, on main roads, towns, past schools, in car parks, its 45mph and thats it, no faster, no slower
• Foglights
• ****e roads
• Badly repaired roads
• The council deciding that after they have laid a nice stretch of good tar, that they forgot something, dig it up again, and leave it in a jock
• TDiddleyI drivers, with the red DI. Its a diesel, not a Porsche
• One Eyed Bandits (Cars with only one headlamp working. Usually leave the other one on full beams, so they can see where they are going)
• Taillights being out
• People who modify cars, that have absolutely no taste/or sight by the looks of some of them
• People that cover the parcel shelf in teddies, completely obscuring their view
• People that cover their rear window in "Princess on board" and "I'm Lovely and Brilliant" type stickers, completely obscuring their view.
• People that crawl around twisties, and then bomb along on the straights, and then jam on the stoppers at the sign of a bend
• People that can't figure out parking spaces
• Car parks that have parking spaces that are obviously too small. I only drive a Focus Mk1.5, and some of the spaces are ridiculous
• Poor planning of roads
• Dickheads driving while on their phones, its illegal, put the phone down or pull over, the call isn't THAT important that it can't wait a few minutes
• Stopping on a yellow box. How can you not be aware of the road?
• People parking outside the cathedral in Cavan. Why do the rules not apply to you? Don't park at the side of junctions, don't abandon ship in the middle of the ****ing road, and don't park in retarded places
• Complete lack of understandable road signs in Ireland, as a whole
• The fact it takes about 53 men to fill a pothole with some loose gravel, a smidgen of tar, and bang it with a shovel, and reverse the truck over it to flatten it
• Brutal placing of speed limits
• General belief that people have a right to do what they want on the roads
• General belief that people have a right to drive, its not a right, its a skill, one that you have to master

That'll do for now.

Dr_Phil

Tail Wagger wrote: »

What annoys you enough on the road to start blasting and shouting other drivers off it.?

1. Lights. Can't understand the point of gettin a green light, while 50 meters after another light changes to red stopping all the traffic. The city gets stuck because of that.

2. People who drive beside each other on a 2-way road/motorway, so that the whole road is blocked.

3. Idiots, who either don't turn their lights on at night, or use the side lights only.

4. People who do make-up's on trafiic lights.

5. People who chat on the mobile and drive at 20km/h

6. People who slow down to 0,00001 km/h just because they have to turn right. Extremely difficult and dangerous indeed.

7. People who drive behid me in a car with no adjusted lights, so that I have to eventually stop and let them pass by.

And a few more I guess

Tail Wagger

What annoys me,? How long have we got.
#Tailgater's
#Under Takers
#Muppet's driving imported cars with big exhausts,
#The big exhaust must be to try and resemble a certain part of their body
#Two Muppet's following each other and showing off.
#Muppet's nearly sitting in the back of the Muppet car while driving and you --can hardly see them.
#Muppet Dolls,who I address as Mis Piggies who are worse than Muppet's
#4x4s who drive up your Arse trying to move you off the road.
#4x4s with little tiny GI Jane's who have to parachute out the door when they stop.
# Mobile phone users while driving.
#Drivers who amble along in the overtaking lane while the inside lane is free.
#Articulated truck drivers overtaking at a seconds notice( they think there ---driving their normal car}
# Bikers who overtake between two cars, as if we weren't there.
# Women adjusting their make up while driving.
# Muppet's who try to impress Mis Piggies with their big egos while driving.

#I'm sure I'll be back with more later..............

dirtydiesel

The guy pulling a horse box near Callon Co.Kilkenny today,he was towing a large horsebox with a Peugeot partner van! When I came up behind the horsebox I couldnt see what was towing it so theres no way he could see what was behind him. Managed to pass him safely
2 horses in the box and the front of the van was lifting off the road. I was only passing through so I doubt our paths will cross again but if your from that area watch out for him cos his a real danger to any road user.
White beat up partner van on kk plates.

Saab Ed

SpringerF wrote: »

I live in the back end of no where.
Since Gormley and his friends introduced their policy of destroying Irish rural community life by allowing housing estates to be built in rural villages we have the situation of hundreds of couples coming to live in the "country" for the first time with their children.

Off topic I know but I felt I had to pull this up.....

The only policy over the last 40 years that has ended up with city dwelers living in the country is that every parent outside of the Pale thinking that their children should be a Teacher / Nurse / Civl Servant and sending their little Jonny's off to Dublin to do so. I should know , im the end result of what I said and what you just mentioned, purely because I couldnt afford to buy a house where I came from over the last 15 years. Irony ha! :)

Lack of truck/pit stops along major routes. Driving in UK and on the Continent every few miles are toilets, shops and room to take a break and walk around

Atomic Pineapple

To avoid undertaking on the M50 this evening I had to move from the driving lane to the middle lane to the overtaking lane 11 times this evening between the Finglas and Stillorgan junctions.

That annoyed me

-Corkie-

draffodx wrote: »

To avoid undertaking on the M50 this evening I had to move from the driving lane to the middle lane to the overtaking lane 11 times this evening between the Finglas and Stillorgan junctions.

That annoyed me

Thank god that m50 is up there i hate it

fryup

in no particular order.....

People who don't indicate
Potholes
People who park in ridiculous places
People who use mobile phones while driving
Suv drivers who think they're king/queen of the road

StudentDad

There are quite a few things that drive me daft about drivers on Irish roads:

- Not sticking to a speed - 40 to 50 to 30 to 50 to 40 to 30 to 50 - driving behind one of those is bloody annoying especially when they either hop on the brakes every ten seconds or don't bother using the brakes at all!

- Travelling along at 70 miles an hour and then boom the car in front hops on the brakes with no warning and sticks on the indicators with the car parked diagonally across the road so you either hop the ditch to get past or slam on the brakes and pray!

- The first one with the erratic speed who then floors it if you try and overtake!

The list goes on but those are the main ones

SD

TequilaMockingBird

The main complaint here is indicating.

I see it every time I use a roundabout beside me.

I end up sitting waiting as every car exits beside me on the right. I would estimate 1 out of 10 indicate - at most.

N4 roundabout users heading in to Sligo town; you are meant to slow down, have an old look to the right before bowling onto the roundabout and INDI-flippin-CATE.

I'm not willing to have a heart attack on the school run because you're in a rush.



/and breeeeaath...

Leonard Hofstadter

Middle lane hoggers.



Drivers of these and any other Toyota.

Has Nissan been mentioned anywhere? They bug the hell out of me too for the same reason Toyota drivers do - they drive way too slowly.

4X4 drivers - a$$hol€$!

thirtythirty

445279.ie wrote: »

Fog lights and no fog :mad:

I've never understood why this annoys people (i don't do it btw!).

But fog lights are not even close to being bright enough to blind / distract you. At most they're the same brightness as dimmed lights, and are on the ground too! I think a lot people just don't like them being on because they think, that the fog lights person thinks, that the lights look cool when theyre on!

The two main things that annoy me are:

- people who basically come to a full stop to turn a corner / turn off the main road.
- people oblivious to what's happening behind them. Whatever about them not stopping in the correct lane / spot / part of the road and generally making themselves impassable in the city - these guys are normally the cause of the 3-mile "car trains" when driving down the country...!

I don't use the horn to vent my frustration, i always try and catch their eye and give a subtle, yet clearly dissapproving, head shake to let them know that I, and my fellow other driver brethren on the road, think that they are retarded and shouldn't be allowed to drive!

rainbowdrop

Farmers driving '95 or '96 Corollas @ 40kph:mad:

Eejits driving in front of me at night time, who brake when they see the headlights of an oncoming car!! What the fcuk are you braking for for ffs?

btkm8unsl0w5r4

People who dont appreciate that everyone is not as good a driver as them and wont cut anyone any slack. everyone is just trying to get where they are going.

Old people in micras who just want to get from A-B but should stay at home alone instead cause they drive too slow, its not other road users fault your not as sharp as you once were , I dont care that you paid a lifetime of tax to build these roads, get outs my way.

Stupid arrogant people in Audis who judge your driving by the brand of car you drive.

People in 4 x 4's - I don't know you or your lifestyle or where you live but if your car has a D reg you should not have one, no I don't care that you have 6 dogs and 10 kids and a farm, I don't need one so you don't either.

Country Drivers, where do you get off not knowing where you are going in a unfamiliar place. You should study the map before crossing the M50, You should drive around the city as fast a possible, the signposts will subliminally merge into you subconscious.

City Drivers, how dare you not be comfortable blasting down a cratered booreen at 120khp.



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