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Traffic Queue Jumpers
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Originally Posted by
WJ99mobile
Why are they always men?
If we're going to do stereotypes then what is it about BMW drivers and aggression? closely followed by Audi drivers.
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I've had an Audi for a couple of years, and I love it. But after reading more than once that Audi drivers are thoughtless, and that they never let anyone in (or out), I've tried to put right this misapprehension, by letting people out of side turnings, and generally being nice on the road. Does it do me any good? Nope. People are so convinced that I'm one of those nasty Audi drivers, that I don't get let out (or in, or whatever). So I have to edge in, edge out.... and we're back to where we started.
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Queue jumping how?
Are we talking two lanes merging into one?
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WJ99mobile
Why are they always men?
How is it possible to jump a traffic queue? I'm guessing there are two lanes merging into one, and you're one of the prats that ignores 500m of usable road and makes the queue longer in doing so by getting into the left lane 1000m before you need to.
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Is this the M4 westbound?
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The Bob Banker Spanker
Queue jumping how?
Are we talking two lanes merging into one?
One of those situations you feel shit whatever lane you are in. If I'm in a "why is everyone queuing 800m out in one lane when there are two for another 800m" then I feel a twat as I try to find a space from a good samatitan who isn't beeping at me. Then when I'm the mug on the inside I feel a twat for not just going in the outside lane.
The slip road to get the bypass by pontptennau going into town is the best example, people will queue sometimes onto the roundabout when there is a perfectly good 2nd lane designed for the purpose of easing that congestion off the roundabout.
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The worst ones both male and female, are the cretins who try and pull into the Coryton junction east bound at the last minute and junction 33 in the morning westbound. Death waiting to happen
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As we're on the subject of traffic: I cant stand it when people have pulled over at night with their headlights on.
Also, people who shoot out of junctions causing me to brake suddenly and then go 25mph for the next few miles.
One more, kids on the back of school buses waving at me innocently and harmlessly at first - I reciprocate and then they vick me! :hehe:
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WJ99mobile
Why are they always men?
Because the women are driving at 10 mph :hehe:
Only joking Auntie :wave:
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Trigger
One of those situations you feel shit whatever lane you are in. If I'm in a "why is everyone queuing 800m out in one lane when there are two for another 800m" then I feel a twat as I try to find a space from a good samatitan who isn't beeping at me. Then when I'm the mug on the inside I feel a twat for not just going in the outside lane.
The slip road to get the bypass by pontptennau going into town is the best example, people will queue sometimes onto the roundabout when there is a perfectly good 2nd lane designed for the purpose of easing that congestion off the roundabout.
Doesn't matter if you feel a prat or not, the road is usable until you approach the cones. If people are beeping and not letting you in, then they're the ones who are prats for being illogical.
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Top of Nantgarw Hill in Caerphilly is the worst for this. Numpties queuing halfway down the hill and then refusing to let anyone in using the merge lane. Half of this country doesn’t know how to drive.
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Bruce Parry
Top of Nantgarw Hill in Caerphilly is the worst for this. Numpties queuing halfway down the hill and then refusing to let anyone in using the merge lane. Half of this country doesn’t know how to drive.
Absolutely no need to merge there though. The traffic flows without 2 lanes going into 1
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B. Oddie
As we're on the subject of traffic: I cant stand it when people have pulled over at night with their headlights on.
Also, people who shoot out of junctions causing me to brake suddenly and then go 25mph for the next few miles.
One more, kids on the back of school buses waving at me innocently and harmlessly at first - I reciprocate and then they vick me! :hehe:
The stupid c unt who had his main beam on when stationary caused me to have the only accident , touchwood, that was deemed to be my fault. I hate it when people are parked on the road with their headlights on.
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Not saying anything :hehe:
but in before the delete.
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WJ99mobile
Absolutely no need to merge there though. The traffic flows without 2 lanes going into 1
So what is the merge lane for?
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Get Boris on the job. Simple law change to zipper merge as they have in Europe.
My whinge, the lane 2 hogs who have moved across to lane 3 on the new 4 lane motorways leaving 2 inside lanes empty
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People who dont use their indicators, pisses me.off because there's literally nothing that can be done
I quite like the idea in America at turning left on a red light if clear to do so.
People who cant understand bus lanes that are only in use during peak hours.
I love how angry people get when dont let them in.
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Also anybody encountered chavy kids doing wheelies on their bikes through red lights.
This a video of a similar scene in Brighton.
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mazadona10
I quite like the idea in America at turning left on a red light if clear to do so.
Woah. Don’t do that. Turn right not left
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light up the darkness
Woah. Don’t do that. Turn right not left
Ive flipped it so it would.work.over here
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Originally Posted by
Bruce Parry
Top of Nantgarw Hill in Caerphilly is the worst for this. Numpties queuing halfway down the hill and then refusing to let anyone in using the merge lane. Half of this country doesn’t know how to drive.
Joining the A48 from the roundabout by blooms in st Mellon's is the same, 2 lanes going down to 1 at the end, but one lane is completely empty, whereas the other lane is queued back around the roundabout, blocking the flow of traffic in 4 other directions.
If everyone just used both lanes until the end, the whole thing would flow a lot more smoothly.
You get some idiots who take it upon themselves to sit across 2 lanes to stop anyone from "pushing in"
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Originally Posted by
The Bob Banker Spanker
Queue jumping how?
Are we talking two lanes merging into one?
Failing to merge and then butting in at the last minute?
Driving up the hard shoulder?
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Originally Posted by
mazadona10
People who dont use their indicators, pisses me.off because there's literally nothing that can be done
I quite like the idea in America at turning left on a red light if clear to do so.
People who cant understand bus lanes that are only in use during peak hours.
I love how angry people get when dont let them in.
:thumbup:
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The twats who lane hop in congested traffic on dual carriage ways and motorways are worse.
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Rjk
Joining the A48 from the roundabout by blooms in st Mellon's is the same, 2 lanes going down to 1 at the end, but one lane is completely empty, whereas the other lane is queued back around the roundabout, blocking the flow of traffic in 4 other directions.
If everyone just used both lanes until the end, the whole thing would flow a lot more smoothly.
You get some idiots who take it upon themselves to sit across 2 lanes to stop anyone from "pushing in"
I come off the M4 nr Llantrisant to drop a boy up the Rhondda before, we drove past talbot green etc and came to a roundabout, I used the right lane to pass about 15 cars all queued in the left lane, perfectly ok to do so but got some right looks as I turned off :hehe:
People must sit there like that every day. **** that after 2 hours of driving on a Thursday with the pub calling.
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Driving in the middle lane of the motorway not over taking anybody. There must be so many people who pull onto the motorway and just head for the middle lane ( or worse outside lane) and stay there for the whole journey, no matter whether there’s space to drive in the inside lane! Winds me up a treat
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Don Corleone
Driving in the middle lane of the motorway not over taking anybody. There must be so many people who pull onto the motorway and just head for the middle lane ( or worse outside lane) and stay there for the whole journey, no matter whether there’s space to drive in the inside lane! Winds me up a treat
Someone on this website, probably about 10 years ago posted something about having to go from the inside lane to the outside lane then back to the inside lane to overtake middle lane hoggers, and complained that having to do so added "literally thousands" of additional miles driven per year.
I spent the next 30 minutes calculating how many times you would have to do that for it to add up to 2000 miles and worked out he would need to be performing this manoeuvre about once every 2 seconds.
I then realized how sad I was being, screwed up my workings and never posted it.
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Originally Posted by
Rjk
Someone on this website, probably about 10 years ago posted something about having to go from the inside lane to the outside lane then back to the inside lane to overtake middle lane hoggers, and complained that having to do so added "literally thousands" of additional miles driven per year.
I spent the next 30 minutes calculating how many times you would have to do that for it to add up to 2000 miles and worked out he would need to be performing this manoeuvre about once every 2 seconds.
I then realized how sad I was being, screwed up my workings and never posted it.
:hehe: I have written out big posts before to try and win an argument or make a point, sometimes hundreds of words long, then normally towards the end after I have vented most of what I wanted to say, I look at it think what the **** am I doing and delete it. It is a habit I am pretty happy with.
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chris lee
:hehe: I have written out big posts before to try and win an argument or make a point, sometimes hundreds of words long, then normally towards the end after I have vented most of what I wanted to say, I look at it think what the **** am I doing and delete it. It is a habit I am pretty happy with.
Yeah it's probably a monthly occurrence for me .
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Originally Posted by
Rjk
Someone on this website, probably about 10 years ago posted something about having to go from the inside lane to the outside lane then back to the inside lane to overtake middle lane hoggers, and complained that having to do so added "literally thousands" of additional miles driven per year.
I spent the next 30 minutes calculating how many times you would have to do that for it to add up to 2000 miles and worked out he would need to be performing this manoeuvre about once every 2 seconds.
I then realized how sad I was being, screwed up my workings and never posted it.
Yeah by sitting on it and then bringing it back up 10 years later you come across as a real cool guy :hehe: :hehe:
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delmbox
Yeah by sitting on it and then bringing it back up 10 years later you come across as a real cool guy :hehe: :hehe:
Good, that's what I was going for.
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People moaning about other drivers are usually the worst drivers themselves...too fast, too confident and angry all the time.
That's why i walk ...but those feckers that try to go past me on the escalator....feck them
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Originally Posted by
CCFCC3PO
Doesn't matter if you feel a prat or not, the road is usable until you approach the cones. If people are beeping and not letting you in, then they're the ones who are prats for being illogical.
This. Also, using both lanes until you reach the cones helps avoid traffic congestion further back.
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ToTaL ITK
People moaning about other drivers are usually the worst drivers themselves...too fast, too confident and angry all the time.
That's why i walk ...but those feckers that try to go past me on the escalator....feck them
They're usually the drivers who've got dashcams aswell. Why they'd want to film themselves driving like dicks and potentially causing accidents is beyond me.
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WJ99mobile
Why are they always men?
It's got to be done, makes up the time from having to wait for the outside lane to clear because of all the middle lane winkers that won't use the inside lane.
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chris lee
:hehe: I have written out big posts before to try and win an argument or make a point, sometimes hundreds of words long, then normally towards the end after I have vented most of what I wanted to say, I look at it think what the **** am I doing and delete it. It is a habit I am pretty happy with.
:hehe:
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Don Corleone
Driving in the middle lane of the motorway not over taking anybody. There must be so many people who pull onto the motorway and just head for the middle lane ( or worse outside lane) and stay there for the whole journey, no matter whether there’s space to drive in the inside lane! Winds me up a treat
I drive on the motorway regularly, generally going to and from the South East and the South West of England.
I have to say the worst I see for “not keeping left” is on the M4 East and West between Cardiff and the bridge.
It’s almost as if people are scared about getting caught in the the lanes which will eventually be designated for a junction miles ahead.