Road issues that irritate me.......

yannakis

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

I suppose it makes up for all the time that cyclists spend stuck behind cars in busy traffic. You know the cars won't move over, and sometimes they drive two or three abreast just to annoy us.

Oh here, I spotted the sensitive cyclist :pac: :rolleyes:

Bicycles stuck behind stopped cars in busy traffic are not even remotely as life-threatening as bicycles doing zigzags at 15km/h on a road that cars do 80km/h.. In my village we call that suicide.

OldMrBrennan83

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blinding

Other People on the roads.......

These roads were built and maintained for me . Why do other people get to use them .

LordSutch

Drivers who creep over the stop lines at red lights.

Usually these drivers ignore the 1st stop line, they then ignore the 2nd stop line & the red coloured bike box, they then tend to creep over the final line . . . what's the point?

OldMrBrennan83

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Danjamin1

yannakis wrote: »

Oh here, I spotted the sensitive cyclist :pac: :rolleyes:

Bicycles stuck behind stopped cars in busy traffic are not even remotely as life-threatening as bicycles doing zigzags at 15km/h on a road that cars do 80km/h.. In my village we call that suicide.

I believe in that instance you'll find it's probably not the 10kg bicycle that's the life threatening issue but the driver who's not competent enough to drive safely around other road users. That's probably my biggest road issue that irritates me, the irrational dislike people have for cyclists.

yannakis

Danjamin1 wrote: »

I believe in that instance you'll find it's probably not the 10kg bicycle that's the life threatening issue but the driver who's not competent enough to drive safely around other road users.

We're not talking about the same thing.. I'm talking about cyclists not competent to cycle around other road users, and you're replying with a rant about drivers not competent to drive around other road users.

Competent drivers, accept the fact that incompetent drivers exist. As a competent cyclist, you probably have to accept that incompetent cyclists do exist. You're not all the same, so stop getting so offended! :pac:

doolox

I regularly travel from somewhere north on the M50 to Bray and points south. The speed limit on the m50 south of jct 14 is 120 kph until somewhere well south of Bray where the motorway becomes a National route (Green signs). Not many people know this as the amount of people sitting in the outer lane doing 100kph holding everybody up is unreal. While MOST of the M50 is 100kph that section south of jct 14 and North of Bray is 120kph, just not well advertised in comparison to the forest of 100kph signs on the rest of the accursed M50.

Danjamin1

yannakis wrote: »

We're not talking about the same thing.. I'm talking about cyclists not competent to cycle around other road users, and you're replying with a rant about drivers not competent to drive around other road users.

Competent drivers, accept the fact that incompetent drivers exist. As a competent cyclist, you probably have to accept that incompetent cyclists do exist. You're not all the same, so stop getting so offended! :pac:

Ah well there's the confusion, I thought you were having a pop at all cyclists who'd have the cheek to cycle through your village. I certainly wouldn't be excusing an awful lot of some cyclist behaviour. Just don't like when all are tarred with the same brush.

AndrewJRenko

yannakis wrote: »

We're not talking about the same thing.. I'm talking about cyclists not competent to cycle around other road users, and you're replying with a rant about drivers not competent to drive around other road users.

Competent drivers, accept the fact that incompetent drivers exist. As a competent cyclist, you probably have to accept that incompetent cyclists do exist. You're not all the same, so stop getting so offended! :pac:

Funny how you didn't mention zig-zags first time round - just cyclists who had the temerity to cycle on a specific road, as if you owned the road or it was built specially for you or something. It's not your private road, so get over it.

OldMrBrennan83

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Hans Bricks

Parking a 12 foot high securispeed van outside your driveway at a bend on a hill in an estate, thereby creating a dangerous and unnecessary blind spot for other road users. It's bad enough that most suburban estate's roads are literally morphed into lanes wide enough for only one car because the cunt residents on each side of the street use the curb as a threshold to parallel park.

Brendan Bendar

Probably said before but these gimps who crawl onto M-ways at 60 -70 kph.

The junction is designed to get up to M-way speed - get up to it and merge seamlessly.

Don't cause danger by holding up the cars behind you.

Wibbs

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Probably said before but these gimps who crawl onto M-ways at 60 -70 kph.

The junction is designed to get up to M-way speed - get up to it and merge seamlessly.

Don't cause danger by holding up the cars behind you.

Do not get me started Sir... For a while there I was only doing small "local" suburban type runs in the oul jalopy and I'm very aware of how going too quickly can get to tragedy all too quickly, so accordingly drive at a low speed, but of late I've been doing longer runs outside of suburbia and bugger me there seem to be more and more drivers whose two basic speeds are dead slow and stop. The ones who keep dancing on the brakes too bloody often another. Lane wanderers, indecisive muppets, those who just sit there gob open like cows over a five bar gate when the lights turn green. Are you waiting for a particular shade of green you crosseyed moron? People who speed like mad in the overtaking lane. Go for it Ted, you'll get a slow ride in a hearse, but don't start flashing me when I"m overtaking at a normal speed(and I don't exactly spare the horses). Nervous drivers give me the itch too. I don't mean cautious drivers BTW, I mean people who are too anxious to be in control of a near two tonne vehicle capable of 160kph and above(100 mph for us old folks). Oh and use your indicators FFS. Speedbumps. Speedbumps everywhere. Jaysus.

Oh crap, you got me started.

yannakis

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Funny how you didn't mention zig-zags first time round - just cyclists who had the temerity to cycle on a specific road, as if you owned the road or it was built specially for you or something. It's not your private road, so get over it.

I actually said lost in space.

Maybe it's time to stop getting so offended!

AndrewJRenko

Patww79 wrote: »

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Oh sorry, is it only motorists that are allowed rant like that?

yannakis wrote: »

I actually said lost in space.

Maybe it's time to stop getting so offended!

No offence at all, though your patronising is getting a little on my wick. And no reference to "lost in space" = "zig zagging" on those google results either, funnily enough.

MadDog76

Patww79 wrote: »

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I actually fell off my chair laughing when I read his post!

The irony ........

degsie

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Probably said before but these gimps who crawl onto M-ways at 60 -70 kph.

The junction is designed to get up to M-way speed - get up to it and merge seamlessly.

Don't cause danger by holding up the cars behind you.

Almost as bad as those who just willy-nilly join the carriageway from the hard shoulder without first building up speed on the hard shoulder.

Brendan Bendar

degsie wrote: »

Almost as bad as those who just willy-nilly join the carriageway from the hard shoulder without first building up speed on the hard shoulder.

Bit confused there degsie.

Why would they be joining from the hard shoulder?

Glenster

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Bit confused there degsie.

Why would they be joining from the hard shoulder?

They were selling strawberries.

Brendan Bendar

Glenster wrote: »

They were selling strawberries.

We are not talking about M-Ways then?

The context of my post referred to MWays.

Sorry bout that.

Glenster

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

We are not talking about M-Ways then?

The context of my post referred to MWays.

Sorry bout that.

The boggers will sell them from anywhere.

Brendan Bendar

Glenster wrote: »

The boggers will sell them from anywhere.

Never saw them being sold from an Mway hard shoulder, I have to say.

degsie

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Bit confused there degsie.

Why would they be joining from the hard shoulder?

Phone calls, baby puke/choking incident, dog wanting a crap, child seatbelt escape, bird strike.... etc....etc...:o

Brendan Bendar

degsie wrote: »

Phone calls, baby puke/choking incident, dog wanting a crap, child seatbelt escape, bird strike.... etc....etc...:o

Uhmmm did think that the hard shoulder was for real emergencies, not phone calls, or bird strikes.

Wouldn't think that the other issues were very common in an organised drive.

But,no matter,I take your point.

degsie

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Uhmmm did think that the hard shoulder was for real emergencies, not phone calls, or bird strikes.

Wouldn't think that the other issues were very common in an organised drive.

But,no matter,I take your point.

With kids/animals/spouse/mother-in-law on board an 'organised' drive is aspirational.

Brendan Bendar

degsie wrote: »

With kids/animals/spouse/mother-in-law on board an 'organised' drive is aspirational.

Yes, have to agree, even with the best of intentions bad things can happen.:D

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Parked at traffic lights waiting for lights to turn green when some dope with a high via vest and a collection bucket comes down along the traffic looking for coin

degsie

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Parked at traffic lights waiting for lights to turn green when some dope with a high via vest and a collection bucket comes down along the traffic looking for coin

Yep those via vests are annoying, especially when worn high :pac:

somefeen

Oncoming cars overtaking and expecting you to make space for them.

Had it happen in Naas recently, guy wanted to pull out around a bus but didn't even slow down, just expected me to move over to the left to make room for him. I would have actually had to go into the hard shoulder to make for comfortable room.
Not a chance and your man near rear ended the bus. Big indignant head on him as I drove by.

Brendan Bendar

somefeen wrote: »

Oncoming cars overtaking and expecting you to make space for them.

Had it happen in Naas recently, guy wanted to pull out around a bus but didn't even slow down, just expected me to move over to the left to make room for him. I would have actually had to go into the hard shoulder to make for comfortable room.
Not a chance and your man near rear ended the bus. Big indignant head on him as I drove by.

You done well there lad, you done well.

That never happened.:cool:

OldMrBrennan83

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Beyondgone

Patww79 wrote: »

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Not too often anyway. Self-preservation usually makes people pull to one side.

Brendan Bendar

Patww79 wrote: »

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Eh No I think that didn't happen.

blade1

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Eh No I think that didn't happen.

Why?

Brendan Bendar

somefeen wrote: »

Oncoming cars overtaking and expecting you to make space for them.

Had it happen in Naas recently, guy wanted to pull out around a bus but didn't even slow down, just expected me to move over to the left to make room for him. I would have actually had to go into the hard shoulder to make for comfortable room.
Not a chance and your man near rear ended the bus. Big indignant head on him as I drove by.

blade1 wrote: »

Why?

In Naas recently.

Pull over to hard shoulder.

Last I heard there are no hard shoulders in Naas?

Apologies if I got that wrong.

the_syco

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

In Naas recently.

Pull over to hard shoulder.

Last I heard there are no hard shoulders in Naas?

Apologies if I got that wrong.

If you could see the parking spots, you could call them that, but markings are near invisible!

gammygils

Cupid stunts that organise Bucket Collections at busy junctions! I mean WTAF?
JUST FOOK OFF! :mad: This absolutely infuriates me!
What do you want me to do? - Pull my handbrake - take my car out of gear - take my phone out of my pocket & my fags etc. & go rootin for the fuk all change I have that I'll probably need to pay for parking anyways!
I support any Charity or Good Cause but surely there is better ways to raise money than this Bolloxology!
All you're doing is slowing Traffic even more and frustrating drivers even more!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: