RMweb Premium mezzoman253 Posted October 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 23, 2019 (edited) Twice in 3 days now I've had people pass me and turn right whilst I was waiting to turn right, and indicating , but wasn't at the stop/give way line. The the junction approaches weren't wide enough for 2 cars side by side, until at the line. So I'm behind the car turning left at the junction, and to the right almost on the dividing marking, and people are going round me. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today I had to go to east London in the car. When I was working as a mobile technician covering most of east London I thought driving standards up there were poor. It was an eye opener, 17 years later, to visit that area again. No lane discipline, stop where you like, U-turns where you like. Pedestrians with a death wish. I could go on but won't. Needless to say I'll use public transport if I can avoid having to take the car up there again. Need a lie down in a darkened room. Rob Edited October 23, 2019 by mezzoman253 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted October 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2019 On 05/10/2019 at 16:26, Catkins said: The works started last weekend, the tailbacks were lengthy on Monday, but had lessened by Thursday. Bloody hell, a 4 day traffic jam, hope it had lessened by then. Mike. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 24, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2019 (edited) 23 hours ago, eastglosmog said: Your not implying they are all a load of hypocrites and go to school in their parents 4x4 instead of using the bus, cycle or go on foot? I often wonder what forms of transport all those E.R. X.R. types use in order to get to the demonstrations? I've a feeling that walking or cycling doesn't feature in many answers.... Edited October 24, 2019 by polybear Edited to save me from the Firing Squad. Hopefully 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 24, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2019 Hey, well what a surprise. It seems that "Smart Motorways" are to be reviewed after concerns over driver safety fears. Cars which are broken down and/or had an accident are on the hard shoulder at times when the hard shoulder is "open" for use as a road lane, with several deaths as a result. So where exactly did the Transport/Highways Dept. Wizards expect such vehicles to stop? In the Fast Third Lane? FFS. (Source: BBC News UK webpage. I'd post a link but it won't....) 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted October 24, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2019 3 hours ago, polybear said: I often wonder what forms of transport all those E.R. types use in order to get to the demonstrations? I've a feeling that walking or cycling doesn't feature in many answers.... Oi stop. Insulting those on the early riser page, those on the demonstrations are known as XRs 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted October 24, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2019 (edited) 37 minutes ago, TheQ said: Oi stop. Insulting those on the early riser page, those on the demonstrations are known as XRs Early rising is definitely something I rebel against! Edited October 24, 2019 by Reorte 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 24, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2019 1 hour ago, TheQ said: Oi stop. Insulting those on the early riser page, those on the demonstrations are known as XRs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 1 hour ago, Reorte said: Early rising is definitely something I rebel against! And me if only for the fact I cannot get my body clock back to normal after doing nights last week despite setting the alarm for normal times, I cant get to sleep until 5 or 6AM and then sleep through it which is stuffing my days off a treat and doesnt bode well for next week when I am on earlies, 0700 Sunday (extra Sunday for all those complaining about us not working them), 0530 Monday etc. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bimble Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 3 hours ago, polybear said: Hey, well what a surprise. It seems that "Smart Motorways" are to be reviewed after concerns over driver safety fears. Cars which are broken down and/or had an accident are on the hard shoulder at times when the hard shoulder is "open" for use as a road lane, with several deaths as a result. So where exactly did the Transport/Highways Dept. Wizards expect such vehicles to stop? In the Fast Third Lane? FFS. (Source: BBC News UK webpage. I'd post a link but it won't....) smart motorways "too complicated" for drivers... quite frankly, if looking at the road ahead of you and following the instruction of large, illuminated signs above you is too complicated, perhaps you shouldn't be behind the wheel at all... then again, we're 300 pages into a thread which shows that driving is beyond quite a few people... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 13 minutes ago, bimble said: then again, we're 300 pages into a thread which shows that driving is beyond quite a few people... Indeed, when I learnt to drive the first question I was asked was 'do you want to learn to drive or learn to pass the test'*, nowadays with these 'express' courses it seems a lot of people are simply learning enough to pass the test, thinking they are then a good driver (because they managed to scrape through the test) and forgetting most of what little they learnt in the first place. * my answer was 'to learn to drive'. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted October 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 24, 2019 6 hours ago, polybear said: I often wonder what forms of transport all those E.R. types use in order to get to the demonstrations? I've a feeling that walking or cycling doesn't feature in many answers.... ERs is a perfectly respectable part of Wheeltappers, and I would like you to take your insinuations elsewhere. The cheek of it! Disgusted of Telford 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 24, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2019 30 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: ERs is a perfectly respectable part of Wheeltappers, and I would like you to take your insinuations elsewhere. The cheek of it! Disgusted of Telford Post duly edited. Please show mercy.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 23 minutes ago, polybear said: Post duly edited. Please show mercy.... If he doesnt calm down just go and superglue yourself to his car, that should p-ss him off no end. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted October 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 24, 2019 25 minutes ago, royaloak said: If he doesnt calm down just go and superglue yourself to his car, that should p-ss him off no end. I like the thought of that, a screaming parking sensor! Well it is a BMW X3 Special................ as it has working indicators. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 4 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: I like the thought of that, a screaming parking sensor! Well it is a BMW X3 Special................ as it has working indicators. I call FAKE NEWS - I don't believe BWM have ever made a car with indicators, working or otherwise 1 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 I have seen a BMW with working indicators - twice 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Ian Abel said: I call FAKE NEWS - I don't believe BWM have ever made a car with indicators, working or otherwise Once again you are wrong, mine has working indicators (unlike most Audis) AND I know how to use them, AND I do actually use them every time I drive the car. That one is getting very boring! Ah you live in America, that says a lot about your arrogance! Edited October 24, 2019 by royaloak 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 4 minutes ago, laurenceb said: I have seen a BMW with working indicators - twice If either was a green 3 series estate then it could have been me. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Twas a saloon of some kind. BMW are one of the few cars I can ID from a distance nowadays -most cars look the same to me 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted October 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 24, 2019 On the way back from the supermarket this evening, turning right at a roundabout, the Merc behind me came up the left lane, undertook me, then proceeded to tailgate the car in front for the next couple of miles before reaching the dual carriageway and shooting off at well over the limit... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 24, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2019 2 hours ago, laurenceb said: I have seen a BMW with working indicators - twice Were they painted in blue and yellow squares? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2019 The speed this clown is doing is something else, with tragic results: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-50102838 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Hmm, no mention in the article of the fact that he was not only going stupidly fast, but he was overtaking against the solid white lines. "He ruled Mr Barton died as a result of a road traffic collision." A more accurate ruling would have been: "Mr Barton killed himself through his own stupidity, and ended the life of an innocent third party in the process". 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 And an unborn child. Not to mention ruining the fathers life and that of the child's sibling. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 10 hours ago, ejstubbs said: Hmm, no mention in the article of the fact that he was not only going stupidly fast, but he was overtaking against the solid white lines. "He ruled Mr Barton died as a result of a road traffic collision." A more accurate ruling would have been: "Mr Barton killed himself through his own stupidity, and ended the life of an innocent third party in the process". has anybody noticed how these clowns never mangage to hit the rear of a 44t tipper truck when they inevitabley wipe themselves out just some poor innocent motorist going about there buisness with devestating results 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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