What annoys you while driving our roads

Karma

its the over taking lane not the go fast lane.
and the empty left lane on the M50(thats not the hard shoulder):pac::pac::pac:

Optimalprimerib

going past a school at 9am or 3pm. Its like a sante fe appreciators convention.

"Look how far and fast i can swing the doors open to ensure my precious Auburn or Paris get to school in style."

MattKane

Where do I start. I concur with a number of points made thus far but I don't have time to read them all.

Why O why do people use their fog lights when there is no fog?

Why do people tailgate?

This annoys me more than anything though - Why are there so few people on Irish roads that know how to use their indicators and the correct lanes on an approach to a roundabout?

You only use the right lane when you are turning right. YOU MUST INDICATE YOU ARE GOING RIGHT and then indicate left just as you make the turn off the roundabout.

Use the left lane when turning left or going straight on. INDICATE LEFT IF YOU ARE GOING LEFT.

I think so many people in this country need a crash course on negotiating roundabouts.

Cookie_Monster

MattKane wrote: »

You only use the right lane when you are turning right.

wrong

MattKane wrote: »

I think so many people in this country need a crash course on negotiating roundabouts.

including you.

You can use the right lane if the "straight ahead" exit has 2 lanes on it (N11 at loughlinstown being an example), or where road signs or arrows direct you otherwise. There are many roundabouts where the left lane is signed for turning left only and all other exits must use right lane.

MattKane

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

wrong



including you.

You can use the right lane if the "straight ahead" exit has 2 lanes on it (N11 at loughlinstown being an example), or where road signs or arrows direct you otherwise. There are many roundabouts where the left lane is signed for turning left only and all other exits must use right lane.

OK, maybe I should have made this more clear. My reference was to a simple four exit roundabout. You know the type, your bread and butter roundabout. For exiting on the first or second exit you use the left lane on approach. For exiting the third exit you use the right lane and indicate appropriately.

The reason I say is I use one of these roundabouts everyday going to work. I approach it on the left lane to go straight on (hence using the second exit). Then some arsehole comes up beside me on the right lane and nearly forces me off the road when they go to take the same exit as me.

Obviously with more complex roundabouts, like what you're getting at, you follow the instructions on the signs and the road.

Sorry chief, in this case I don't need a crash course.

ballytrim

MattKane wrote: »

OK, maybe I should have made this more clear. My reference was to a simple four exit roundabout. You know the type, your bread and butter roundabout. For exiting on the first or second exit you use the left lane on approach. For exiting the third exit you use the right lane and indicate appropriately.

The reason I say is I use one of these roundabouts everyday going to work. I approach it on the left lane to go straight on (hence using the second exit). Then some arsehole comes up beside me on the right lane and nearly forces me off the road when they go to take the same exit as me.

Obviously with more complex roundabouts, like what you're getting at, you follow the instructions on the signs and the road.

Sorry chief, in this case I don't need a crash course.

I've been trying, unsuccessfully it seems, to make the same points.
Point is that in most towns, ie on normal single carriageway town roads, when you get to a roundabout there are no posted/indicated 'lanes' as such, it is simply the case that the road itself fans out where it meets the roundabout. The roundabout is 2 'lanes' wide going around it, unmarked usually, and people 'take up a position' on the left or right hand side when they get to the roundabout junction as it is blatantly obvious one should and there is plenty of room to do so.
Roundabouts with lanes indicated clearly which are then abused is a different and more annoying thing altogether.:mad:

tink2

Oooh I couldn't pick just one!

People not using their indicators
People not looking when reversing
All the frigging ramps everywhere !

bongi69

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

going past a school at 9am or 3pm. Its like a sante fe appreciators convention.

"Look how far and fast i can swing the doors open to ensure my precious Auburn or Paris get to school in style."

+1.



This image shows New Road in Clondalkin. On this road we have a large secondary school, and 3 primary schools right across the road. The parking lots in the schools can be negated. They're for staff only.

Its not a wide road, so come school letting out time, parents tend to park on both sides of the road to collect little Johnny or Siobhan, creating a line of parked cars around 250-300 meters long. They can't park half up on the path either, paths aren't wide enough. So this reduces the width of the road to 1 car passing safely. 2 can squeeze, but will probably lose wing mirrors along the way. Throw in the lollipop lady for good measure.

So you have to wait at the end of the line of cars for the way to be clear, and then proceed. But you're guaranteed that when you're half way through, some muppet comes flying down in the opposite direction, and will expect you to try to pull in to some imaginary space to let them through. And then Johnny's parents will either not look for traffic and pull out infront of you, or worse, pull out going the opposite direction to you, causing a repeat of the above situation. Or they'll see you coming, and pull out to do a u-turn anyway, leaving you sitting, and traffic building up. And then comes the lollipop lady. While she stops traffic, again someone will come down the opposite direction, and the fun ensues. Now imagine when a bus approaches, or worse, 2 buses going in the opposite direction.

This behaviour is my major pain in my ar$e. There are hundreds of houses within 20 mins walk, which I'm sure is where most of these kids live. If mummy is staying at home and can pick up the kids, could she not walk and get some exercise? Maybe, with Johnny playing his PS3 all day indoors, this exercise will keep him from becoming obese, with obese kids becoming a major health concern in this country? I don't have kids, and I don't live near these schools, they're just on my daily route. If I did have kids, and was in the position to pick them up, I'd take a walk to the school with the dog to pick them up. The local school is 15 mins walk away. And if my kids were in secondary school, I'd trust them enough to either take the bus or walk home. I did it.

Other than that, I think everything else that pi$$es me off has been mentioned, especially people not knowing how to correctly use indicators, or not using them at all

Mc Love

I hate people that speed up and are nearly on top of you when they see an amber light in the hope of going through the red with you. (You have no time to stop when you see amber light a metre before the line.

smash

down ramp onto motorway... sign clearly states 120 on the ramp, yet people proceed to drive down at 60 and try to merge with traffic travelling twice as fast...

When someone pulls fast out of a side road in to your lane and then for some reason decides to change from first to 4th (or so it would seem) and drive at a snail pace until the car speeds up, forcing you to hit the brakes...

Mc Love

steve06 wrote: »

down ramp onto motorway... sign clearly states 120 on the ramp, yet people proceed to drive down at 60 and try to merge with traffic travelling twice as fast...

When someone pulls fast out of a side road in to your lane and then for some reason decides to change from first to 4th (or so it would seem) and drive at a snail pace until the car speeds up, forcing you to hit the brakes...

Even those people that dont use the whole length of the slip lane to build up speed and just pull out - thats annoying!

benzie

This is my list:-
1. Women who plaster their faces while driving
2. People who don't indicate
3. People who text or talk while driving
4. People driving with folded side/wing mirror
5. Cars with one light at night.
6. People who do not appreciate when you let them pass, give way.
7. Taxi Rank near the corner/JCT/traffic lights ( bewleys hotel Ballsbridge )
8. People parking < 5m from the corner

Ken Tucky

b'tards who skip the q's on the m50 off ramps.
they just drive up on the outside lane skipping scores of cars waiting to exit the motorway and just jump in at last minute causing everybody else to brake.
totally dangerous and illegal.
one day im going to drive straigh into one of these mother f**kers as i dont give a flying f**k about my car.....well just a little:D
does my brain an injury though that type of ignorance

bothyhead

benzie wrote: »

4. People driving with folded side/wing mirror

Yes! As a cyclist, this one bugs the hell out of me. The number of times I've come up on the near side and nearly been creamed because the muppet in front of me suddenly decides they want to turn left. a) they don't indicate b) how the feck are they supposed to notice me with a folded wing mirror? A couple of times in slow traffic I've actually stopped the bike and adjusted the mirror for them. The look on their faces is priceless

ART6

bongi69 wrote: »

+1.
If mummy is staying at home and can pick up the kids, could she not walk and get some exercise? Maybe, with Johnny playing his PS3 all day indoors, this exercise will keep him from becoming obese, with obese kids becoming a major health concern in this country? I don't have kids, and I don't live near these schools, they're just on my daily route. If I did have kids, and was in the position to pick them up, I'd take a walk to the school with the dog to pick them up. The local school is 15 mins walk away. And if my kids were in secondary school, I'd trust them enough to either take the bus or walk home. I did it.

Oh Man am I with you there:D Our local village school is on a narrow road, and the Mammies don't park -- they just abandon their vehicles wherever. They will happily stop all traffic while they unload their offspring, who generally appear as dim as they are. They are quite capable of mixing up reverse gear and first gear and coming at you backwards, and when they have unloaded they always pull out without looking if anything's coming. If passing during the cannonball run I creep at ten mph and mentally recall the number of the local bodyshop.

The best I saw a while ago was a YM pulling out of her house in a socking great 4x4 a quarter of a mile from the school to drop off a fat infant because it was raining slightly

Tail Wagger

MattKane wrote: »

Where do I start. I concur with a number of points made thus far but I don't have time to read them all.

Why O why do people use their fog lights when there is no fog?

[A]---That can be a problem because some people just forget to turn them off when the fog has passed.

Why do people tailgate?

[A]---More than likely because their car is bigger than yours [or mine] and they wast us to move over.

This annoys me more than anything though - Why are there so few people on Irish roads that know how to use their indicators and the correct lanes on an approach to a roundabout?

[A]---I agree with you

You only use the right lane when you are turning right. YOU MUST INDICATE YOU ARE GOING RIGHT and then indicate left just as you make the turn off the roundabout.

[A]---You can use the right lane on a roundabout to go straight ahead [provided you stay in that lane when you have completed your move]

Use the left lane when turning left or going straight on. INDICATE LEFT IF YOU ARE GOING LEFT.

[A]---correct!

I think so many people in this country need a crash course on negotiating roundabouts.

[A]---I agree!

corktina

"and then indicate left just as you make the turn off the roundabout."

no, you indicate left at the previous junction

sesna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoUPKeCfDSc

mail4liam

sesna wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoUPKeCfDSc

Well that certainly puts this thread into perspective, I wonder how long it I'll be before it's closed now!

Mc Love

Just getting ready to be peed off - driving up the N7/M7 tonight!

ottostreet

sesna wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoUPKeCfDSc

lol i found out that quite funny

"Did I f**k?"

lol

Danbo!

bothyhead wrote: »

Yes! As a cyclist, this one bugs the hell out of me. The number of times I've come up on the near side and nearly been creamed because the muppet in front of me suddenly decides they want to turn left. a) they don't indicate b) how the feck are they supposed to notice me with a folded wing mirror? A couple of times in slow traffic I've actually stopped the bike and adjusted the mirror for them. The look on their faces is priceless

Unfortunately if they've gotten to where they are with the mirror folded in, chances are they aint looking at it either way.

sesna

mail4liam wrote: »

Well that certainly puts this thread into perspective, I wonder how long it I'll be before it's closed now!

I should have known better than to impinge on such an otherwise highbrow discussion

ocokev

Hope somebody can help as there is alot of drivers on this blog.
My girlfriend loves the VW Passat but is wondering before she test drives how many make up mirrors it has, and if there is one on the drivers side does it illuminate?

Mr. Presentable

ocokev wrote: »

Hope somebody can help as there is alot of drivers on this blog.
My girlfriend loves the VW Passat but is wondering before she test drives how many make up mirrors it has, and if there is one on the drivers side does it illuminate?

Cute

Jaysoose

The whole N3 inbound bus/m50/merge lane when joining from the blanchardstown sliproad. I obeserve on a daily basis three types of drivers.

1. Guy using the bus lane to get to the M50 lane...forcing people joining from the slip to brake as they will keep pootling along with no regard for anybody

2. The Bus/taxi man who will not merge into the driving lane inbound but instead keep going down the now M50 lane right to the absolute limit then force their way into traffic at the lst second causing everybody else to brake.

3. The guy that leaves the driving lane when approaching the roundabout and moves into the M50 lane at the blanchardstown roundabout then proceeds to go straight onto the roundabout cutting up whoever is unfortunate enough to try and stay in the lane they currently are in.

Pretty much if you follow the rules on this road in the mornings you will get cut up or forced to let somebody in, have to jam on at some stage everyday to facilitate the ignorance/arrogance of the above types of drivers.

Tail Wagger

Jaysoose wrote: »

The whole N3 inbound bus/m50/merge lane when joining from the blanchardstown sliproad. I obeserve on a daily basis three types of drivers.

1. Guy using the bus lane to get to the M50 lane...forcing people joining from the slip to brake as they will keep pootling along with no regard for anybody

2. The Bus/taxi man who will not merge into the driving lane inbound but instead keep going down the now M50 lane right to the absolute limit then force their way into traffic at the lst second causing everybody else to brake.

3. The guy that leaves the driving lane when approaching the roundabout and moves into the M50 lane at the blanchardstown roundabout then proceeds to go straight onto the roundabout cutting up whoever is unfortunate enough to try and stay in the lane they currently are in.

Pretty much if you follow the rules on this road in the mornings you will get cut up or forced to let somebody in, have to jam on at some stage everyday to facilitate the ignorance/arrogance of the above types of drivers.

Yeah! and these are the one's with the lovely shiny Full Driving Licences?

Eric Cartman

1. Baby on board stickers , it should be renamed to 'im a careless driver normally not a male who will pay any amount of attention to my kids and none to the road because my renault scenic has 5 star safety rating and that automatically means i can drive like a f*cktard

2. people on the phone/ wearing headphones / putting on makeup / reading a book / texting while driving

3. taxi drivers in general

4. anyone who drives a (not-so)smart car , new mini, fiat punto , peugot 206, renault scenic

Tail Wagger

My old favourite pet hate on the Road, I can't go on enough about it.
Taxi drivers who hop along the bus lane when there only supposed to be traveling at 60 k/m and they are driving faster then the cars on the road proper and then they just pull out in front of your car, just to go past a bus!

I hate buses also, the way the bus stops at the stop and puts out his indacator to pull out and the passengers have not left the bus....

hoodie6029

The junction of Haddington Road/Grand Canal Street/South Lotts Road/Bath Avenue/Shelbourne Road. Don't approach it from any angle unless you want to turn left.

As previously mentioned aggression has no place on the road. Every good driver make the wrong decision sometime so cut the guy in front some slack if they make a mistake.

One quick question. What forums are the people who do all these things that annoy us in?

bothyhead

hoodie6029 wrote: »

One quick question. What forums are the people who do all these things that annoy us in?

I'm sure that some of them don't use boards.ie, and of those that do, they could be interested in any forum

Tail Wagger

hoodie6029 wrote: »

The junction of Haddington Road/Grand Canal Street/South Lotts Road/Bath Avenue/Shelbourne Road. Don't approach it from any angle unless you want to turn left.

As previously mentioned aggression has no place on the road. Every good driver make the wrong decision sometime so cut the guy in front some slack if they make a mistake.

One quick question. What forums are the people who do all these things that annoy us in?

This one , we all annoy each other from time to time?

GTE

I want to get a foghorn and a very large sub woofer attached to my next car, once anyone does something stupid Im gonna scare the wits out of the country with the horn and brown note those mo fo's with some sub bass!!!!

bobgreenmonster

Drunk drivers
Uninsured drivers
Drivers who think road tax and nct certs are for other people.

And all those feck1n roundabouts in Portlaoise

Mc Love

Mc Love wrote: »

Just getting ready to be peed off - driving up the N7/M7 tonight!

Only one thing that annoyed me! Someone driving with no rear lights - they got pulled by the gardai though

Tail Wagger

Mc Love wrote: »

Only one thing that annoyed me! Someone driving with no rear lights - they got pulled by the gardai though

That was a stroke of luck for you?...Did you just happen to be following them at the time. You not liking people driving with no rear lights anall.

FrDougalMcguire

L drivers on motorways drivin in fast lane, they shouldnt even be on motorway, people tail gating going throught express lane in tolls, people at tolls not having change ready, people wont pull over on straight stretches but pull in when no view, people wont overtake on straights but decide to do so when bend approaching etc. etc

AugustusMinimus

Bonito wrote: »

If I'm on a roundabout that I'm unfamiliar with I'll use the outside lane. I'll indicate properly but rather than potentially causing an accident I'll take the outside and take my time. Sometimes a bit of patience is needed TBH.

When people do this on roundabouts, I will take the inside lane on the roundabout and overtake them.

Only yesterday morning some idiot ahead of me took the outside lane of the roundabout to take the last exit. I duly overtook him.


Nothing and I mean nothing is worse than the car in front accelerating when they see another person is trying to overtake them.

That and overtaking lane hoggers. Blood boils.

corktina

What is annoying and confusing is the way people refer to inside and outside lanes on a roundabout which are exactly the opposite of hiow they would refer to them on a dual carriageway.

jaffa20

When going round a roundabout, indicating clearly and someone at the 2nd exit, waiting to enter the roundabout sees you approaching, hesitates and then pulls right out in front of you. Happended to me yesterday with a female beemer driver. She pulled out fairly quickly and i flashed her once. No acknowledgement at all but she slowed completely down then which was even worse. I flashed her a few times before taking my exit. This happens me loads.

People seems to think they can't get ahead of car that is moving when they are fully stationary. You can almost see them thinking about it before they act so you have to be prepared.

Mc Love

That used to happen me all the time in my old car, not so much anymore though

R.O.R

The Cock Gobbling Ass Clowns who pootle along in the outside lane of the Motorway, realise that you are coming up behing them and pull in to inside so you can safely overtake - and then pull back out to the outside lane (while I'm pulling back in to the inside lane) to carry on their journey.

This annoys me so much more than it really should do, and if it were legal to carry weapons in cars in this country, there would be a few people at the side of the motorway, half in / half out of the car, with a sizeable hole in their big, fat, stupid melon head.

Mc Love

R.O.R wrote: »

The Cock Gobbling Ass Clowns who pootle along in the outside lane of the Motorway, realise that you are coming up behing them and pull in to inside so you can safely overtake - and then pull back out to the outside lane (while I'm pulling back in to the inside lane) to carry on their journey.

This annoys me so much more than it really should do, and if it were legal to carry weapons in cars in this country, there would be a few people at the side of the motorway, half in / half out of the car, with a sizeable hole in their big, fat, stupid melon head.

And its mostly women I have experienced that do this - as you said it annoys me so much more than it should too

Tail Wagger

R.O.R wrote: »

The Cock Gobbling Ass Clowns who pootle along in the outside lane of the Motorway, realise that you are coming up behing them and pull in to inside so you can safely overtake - and then pull back out to the outside lane (while I'm pulling back in to the inside lane) to carry on their journey.

This annoys me so much more than it really should do, and if it were legal to carry weapons in cars in this country, there would be a few people at the side of the motorway, half in / half out of the car, with a sizeable hole in their big, fat, stupid melon head.

I'd say you got that load off your mind, now I'm going to wash my big fat melon head?

RandomAccess

If you miss your exit on the motorway, it is not acceptable to reverse back. Just turn around at the next one you prat.

If you are in the inside lane of a roundabout when you should be on the left lane, you can go around!! You don't have to cut in. Happened last night.

Never reverse on a roundabout, its just not ok.. Mr X5 man, thats for you.

Missed ur turn-off on a dual carriageway. Don't do a U turn. Prick!!

I don't suppose all those people are dictating messages in their cars? Holding ur phone up like a dictaphone while its on speaker mode is not hands-free. Where did that come out of!!

People on the phone on roundabouts should be shot.. Any objections?

If the fast lane is closed up ahead, then merge lanes NOW, don't skip ahead to the end because I won't let you in then buddy. Stick ur merc up ur hole.

Drive at a reasonable speed or pull over and let the mile of traffic past.
I'm not keen on extreme overtaking so don't push me.

corktina

"If the fast lane is closed up ahead, then merge lanes NOW, don't skip ahead to the end because I won't let you in then buddy. Stick ur merc up ur hole"

Have to disagree and nominate you as part of the trouble....zip merging its called....the cars reaching the pinch point merge in turn to form a single lane...if you form a single lane miles before the pinch point, you are just making the queue longer and in danger of causing congestion at some point back down the road.

Mc Love

Lady in the honda at the newport roundabout last night:

If you see me on the roundabout and you arent on it, please dont just pull out in front of me causing me to swerve in order not to hit you

Dumbass

Tail Wagger

RandomAccess wrote: »

If you miss your exit on the motorway, it is not acceptable to reverse back. Just turn around at the next one you prat.

If you are in the inside lane of a roundabout when you should be on the left lane, you can go around!! You don't have to cut in. Happened last night.

Never reverse on a roundabout, its just not ok.. Mr X5 man, thats for you.

Missed ur turn-off on a dual carriageway. Don't do a U turn. Prick!!

I don't suppose all those people are dictating messages in their cars? Holding ur phone up like a dictaphone while its on speaker mode is not hands-free. Where did that come out of!!

People on the phone on roundabouts should be shot.. Any objections?

If the fast lane is closed up ahead, then merge lanes NOW, don't skip ahead to the end because I won't let you in then buddy. Stick ur merc up ur hole.

Drive at a reasonable speed or pull over and let the mile of traffic past.
I'm not keen on extreme overtaking so don't push me.

Was this all in the one day?...... And I think you'v broken every rule in the thread with those names you'v called out?

paddyland

What about the w o m a n driver on the M50 one night, doing 60kmh in the middle lane, being undertaken by other cars doing 80kmh. I approached fast behind her at 100kmh. I didn't want to slow down to take the inside lane, so I gave her a double flash of the lights. She BRAKED in front of me, then indicated RIGHT, then moved to the OUTSIDE lane, going slower there than she was in the middle lane!

I swept past her in the middle lane, giving her a blast of an air horn. The motorway is no place for drivers that incompetent. There should really be a two tier licensing system, with a low tier for nervous or incapable drivers who pass a moderate driving test, but should never be let near a motorway.

ottostreet

Tail Wagger wrote: »

That was a stroke of luck for you?...Did you just happen to be following them at the time. You not liking people driving with no rear lights anall.

Tail Wagger wrote: »

I'd say you got that load off your mind, now I'm going to wash my big fat melon head?

Tail Wagger wrote: »

Was this all in the one day?...... And I think you'v broken every rule in the thread with those names you'v called out?

why are you nitpicking at other peoples posts?

yes yes i realise the irony of me asking this!