Your pet hate in traffic!!!

pyxxel

This may well end up a sticky some day!!

I'll start the list so:

1. Mammies in huge four-wheel-drives on the school run
2. 18yo primates in kitted-out Nissan Micras
3. Kiddoes on souped-up 50cc scooters, no gloves, helmets dangling from arm, doing wheelies, breaking all rules & generally being as much a*holes as they can

Go on then!!

Mr E

People who don't know how to use a roundabout, and people who don't know what indicators are.

egan007

People using the RIGHT TURN lane at traffic lights to skip Queues and go straight
Merc Drivers that don't acknowledge anyone when you let them in ( i've stopped)

mike65

The caterpiller effect! When one or more drivers in a line of traffic is slow to
get moving or brakes 'cause they wer'nt looking ahead and the caterpillar builds back along the line until someone rear ends the guy in front. When you're driving at 5 mph there is NO EXCUSE!

Mike.

Danni

People that see that you'd like to get into a certain lane, yet they drive straight past. Hate ignorant drivers.
People who speed up the inside lane (coz its free), then cut in once the traffic starts moving in your lane.

Sleipnir

Rubbernecking.

Was stuck in very bad traffic on the lucan road going on to the M50 on saturday.
Crawled onto the M50 to see a car pulled over with the bonnet open.

After passing the car? Plain sailing, no traffic.

People forget that when you slow down 5 mph, the guy behind will slow 6-7 mph, the guy behind him 10 mph and so on for 500 cars.
REALLY pisses me off.

liamo

People driving up my arse thinking that they can bully me into going faster.
People who won't speed up when I drive up their arse.

Adding to TmB's post: People on roundabouts who don't know how to indicate their intentions. Either by not indicating their intention to go past the 2nd exit or by leaving their right-hand indicator on all the way round and not indicating their intention to leave the roundabout.

People at the Express toll-booth holding everyone up while they search for change. Aaaargghhh!!

Those idiots with a cigarette in one hand and a mobile phone in the other while driving.

I could go on and on but I feel my blood pressure rising already! :mad:

kaiphas

(1) People driving continuously in the overtaking lane on Motorways (esp those that do so at a constant 55 to 60mph)

(2) People driving in the inside lane blocking those who want to feed out on the motorway (a contradiction to 1 above - but common sense should prevail)

(2) Incorrect use of lanes & indicators on roundabouts

(3) People failing to acknowledge when let out in front of you.

MadsL

Fog lights. Especially on buses (against Dublin Bus policy too)

fjon

Danni wrote:

People who speed up the inside lane (coz its free), then cut in once the traffic starts moving in your lane.

You're not talking about a Motorway or Dual carriageway, are you? The inside/ regular lane should never be free when the outside/ overtaking lane is full - it should be the other way around. If everyone is stuck in the overtaking lane I see no problem in using the regular lane to overtake them. They should not be in the overtaking lane if the regular lane is free...
Anyway, my pet hate, not really regarding traffic is people who can't park inside their white box. Especially girls in those tiny Fiats 500s - you could park those things sideways in some parking spaces. Grr!

The Clown Man

Women who don't ever let anyone out and sail on through like they are the only people on the road that really matter.

Oh and those F**king spastics that find themselves stuck in trafic on a roundabout and blocking a whole f**king other road from using the rest of siad roundabout.

ando

over cautious drivers
merc and beamer drivers
courier bikers

giveth

People who drive 45mph on the open road, then come to a town and continue doing 45mph right through it.

mike65

ando wrote:

merc....drivers

Grrrrrrrrrrr!
:mad:

edit> I wuz Grrrr-ing ando, not Merc drivers being one myself.

Mike.

daggeredge

An indicator is not just for Christmas people!!! fair comment TmB

also people TEXTING while driving! (new fad)

people who don't check there mirrors!! (see my latest post!)

drivers who indicate left off a sideroad when your on the main road and keep edging slowly so you'll let em out and then they scream abuse at you when you don't!

Lorry's driving up your ass and flashing the lights in the back window when youre going 60!(always thought all of them were safe drivers, naive!)

women who insist on doing there hair at the END of a light thats red ages, and then get annoyed when they'res progressive beeping behind them (and dont check the light, so the light goes red again!!!! more than one occasion people!)

thats all i can think of at da mo!

Ernest

The dozey idiots in queue of traffic who think they own the queue and feel free to let every chancer coming out of a side road in ahead of them ( and the rest of us ) even though the people coming from the side roads are for the most part people who have take rat-runs to enable them to jump the queue!!. "Hate tha'!"

The Clown Man

Actually, get this...

Just the other day I saw a woman in a red "spruced up" corsa driving happily along with her wing mirrors retracted and pointing in and her rear veiw mirror pointing at herself! And she wasn't doing her makeup or anything, that's obviously just the way she drives.

daggeredge

sure isn't that driver more important Clown man? screw the other ppl behind her!
Ernests right, I can deal with a car in front letting one person in.... 2's the limit alright!

byte

kaiphas wrote:

2) Incorrect use of lanes & indicators on roundabouts

(3) People failing to acknowledge when let out in front of you.

I agree with above. Also people who drive up your rear urging you to go faster, or drivers who have headlights on when behind you. They'll dip them for oncoming traffic, but as soon as traffic passes, they put heads back on again! ARGH!

Zaph

Two things really piss me off, although neither is specifically while I'm in traffic:

1. "Baby on Board" signs. Do I really give a crap about whether your little precious is in the car with you or not? No, I don't, but that doesn't mean I'm going to try to rear-end those cars that don't have a sign in the back window. As far as I can make out, the only point of those signs is to let the world know that another pair of idiots have extended their stupidity into the collective gene pool.

2. Women drivers at junctions when I'm a pedestrian. This is actually borne out of 10 years of personal experience as there was a junction with a one-way street coming on to a very busy road just down from where our office used to be that I crossed at least twice a day. Invariably there would be cars at the junction, and most of the time the driver at the head of the queue would wave pedestrians across before driving off. The exception was when there was a woman in front. When that happened the driver usually either a) didn't see (or ignored) you as you were crossing and tried to run you over, or b) edged forward every time you made an attempt to cross the road, thereby forcing you closer to the traffic they were trying to join. Actually, now that I think of it, women drivers rarely let me out of car parks, etc. ahead of them, even if there are red lights and they can't go anywhere themselves. Any women drivers care to explain this behavious to me?

mike65

Something that ticks me off is when ppl pull up at a junction from a side road/driveway etc look right, towards me then just as I start make room for them they look at the sky, thier nails, the rearview mirror. Almost anything except where they should be looking - AT ME! If I can I'll give them every chance but sometimes they just don't deserve to be let out...

Mike.

daggeredge

drivers who have no clue what they're doing and shouldn't be on the road!....
see my post here !

BigEejit

There are too many to list and my wife does half of them to such an extent that I wont get into a car with her driving.....

Main ones.... people going to the third exit of roundabouts in the outside lane, usually with no indicator :rolleyes: (my wife thankfully doesnt do this)

Caravans and all forms of mobile homes .... people turn completely overcautious when they are attached to their car.... (I know a certain degree of caution is needed but just drive the ring of kerry in summer and you'll see overcautious caravan drivers enough to drive you insane)

Tourist drivers, 20 mph around the tiniest corner then 70 on the straight stretches... natural habitat would seem to be clustered around the caravans mentioned above causing an impassible slow moving obstruction

Tractors and slow moving drivers that dont pull in to leave a heap of following cars pass

Similar to above .... JCB's holding up rush hour traffic ... drive at some other time you daft bollixes .. there was a few weeks straight there where I was getting (along with a lot of other people) caught behind a JCB at 7:30am .... same JCB, same ignorant bastard driver....

Large cement trucks (John A Woods etc) leaving a trail of cement behind them .... there is a line of it down through the middle of Ballincollig, its like driving on cobblestones ... was there about 2 weeks after they last resurfaced the road....

Trucks making shlt of roads and paying less road tax than I am (this is still the case isnt it?) :mad:

Neil_Sedaka

Cars with one dim or dead headlight and the other one taking yer fcuking head off, seeing this more and more lately, especially busses?

unkel

Most of the above, especially (in order of badness):

1. General ignorance / incompetence

2. Motorway overtaking lane clogged up by cars not overtaking

3. Indication on roundabouts. More specific I don't even get too irate with people going three quarters (turning right) without indicating at all :rolleyes: What p1sses me off more are people not indicating when going one quarter (turning left) with me stopping to yield right of way. Had they indicated, I could have progressed :mad:

ando wrote:

merc and beamer drivers

Nice sweeping statement there ando :rolleyes:

Lord Nikon

Drivers who blatantly speed down the Lucan bypass, outbound before The Foxhunter at 50/60mph, and me noticing the Gatso on the bridge at 44mph.

Those idiots that take up 2 parking spaces in a busy carpark, namely the one directly outside the Ster Century cinema at Liffey Valley.

Drivers going the wrong way around Liffey Valley, when there is clearly arrows on the damn road.

People who continue to walk directly in front of you, while you look for a parking space in Liffey Valley.

People who get into cars in carparks and sit in them for 5 mins, knowing quite well that someone is waiting to use the space.

Drivers with no lights on, in light fog/heavy fog, light rain/heavy rain. Do you really think you can be seen?

Drivers with no seatbelt, and front passenger with none, and children jumping up and down in the back with definity no seatbelt.

Drivers who hestitate to move off from the a green light.

Pig ignorant plebs that dont give a thanks when you let when pull out for a sideroad or parking space or whatever.

Drivers who break the law period, and get away with it.

logonmar

Occupying the overtaking lane for miles in order to be in position for eventual exit.
Have never managed to do the South Link Road in Cork without encountering someone on the outside lane while the inside lane free.
Grrrrrrrrr!!!!

seamus

Drivers waiting to come out of a side road, or pedestrians waiting to cross, who look at you, hesitate, look around, then look at you again, and decide to go, when it's no longer safe to do so.

And yes, Liffey Valley's car park is where you find them all - people not watching, driving the wrong way up well-marked aisles, oblivious.

Sleipnir

"World went and got itself in a awful hurry"

luckat

The most dangerous people on the road are those who get into a tizzy about others' driving. People make mistakes. Live with it.

Years ago I took a lift with an RTE cameraman driving across the country. As he drove, his van was surrounded by idiots carving him up, tailgating him, swerving across lanes without indicating, beeping rudely, etc, etc.

He just kept calm and kept driving. After a couple of hours I burst out: "Don't you get furious at all the idiots on the road?"

He laughed. Then he said: "When I started in this job they sent me on an advanced driving course. The first thing I was taught was 'defensive driving'. This means treating other road users just the same as you treat other factors on the road - obstacles, traffic lights, road signs and so on. And not getting emotional about it - just keeping your attention both directly in front of you and 100 yards on."

He was the best driver I've ever seen - and the reason was that he was driving his own car, not worrying about what anyone else was doing, except in terms of predicting driver behaviour unemotionally, and driving accordingly.

egan007

mike65 wrote:

Grrrrrrrrrrr!
:mad:

edit> I wuz Grrrr-ing ando, not Merc drivers being one myself.

Mike.

Mike - acknowledge the rest of us when we let you into traffic

koneko

People that don't use their indicators (roundabouts, or anywhere really). They're not for decoration, bloody use them people!!

Oh and when I slow down to let someone out.. flash them.... then if they still don't move I wave at them (beckon) to move, but they're just sort of sitting there talking to their mates. I mean, you're waiting to get out, the least you could do is pay attention so when someone is nice and lets you out, you do it instead of sitting around.

leeroybrown

Probably some repitition here:

Drivers who unnecessarily hog overtaking lanes.
Drivers on roundabouts full stop. I don't really trust the ones who indicate either.
Sunday drivers. Three cars at 45mph happy to tailgate making a 20 mile rolling roadblock.
Drivers who cut in in front of you when you let one car through.
Slow drivers who don't check mirrors and consider other road users. (drivers who feel they're doing a service by making everyone do 50mph).
Drivers who beep, shout, flash lights, wave fists unnecessarily at other drivers. Not only are they distracting themselves from the road but other motorists too.
Fog lights.

You could be here all day ...

fjon

luckat wrote:

The most dangerous people on the road are those who get into a tizzy about others' driving. People make mistakes. Live with it.

Years ago I took a lift with an RTE cameraman driving across the country. As he drove, his van was surrounded by idiots carving him up, tailgating him, swerving across lanes without indicating, beeping rudely, etc, etc.

He just kept calm and kept driving. After a couple of hours I burst out: "Don't you get furious at all the idiots on the road?"

He laughed. Then he said: "When I started in this job they sent me on an advanced driving course. The first thing I was taught was 'defensive driving'. This means treating other road users just the same as you treat other factors on the road - obstacles, traffic lights, road signs and so on. And not getting emotional about it - just keeping your attention both directly in front of you and 100 yards on."

He was the best driver I've ever seen - and the reason was that he was driving his own car, not worrying about what anyone else was doing, except in terms of predicting driver behaviour unemotionally, and driving accordingly.

Nice post. I would like to one day be able to drive like this guy...

Andrew Duffy

neuromancer wrote:

Drivers who blatantly speed down the Lucan bypass, outbound before The Foxhunter at 50/60mph, and me noticing the Gatso on the bridge at 44mph.

Umm... the limit's 50 there - I hope you don't brake heavily from 55 to 40 coming up to the camera like so many others, who appear to have assumed the camera warning signs and hatch markings are there for some other reason than a fixed speed camera.

Edit - just noticed you were talking about the other end (where the limit is 40). I presume it was a manned speed check? If you felt really strongly about it you could have doubled back and asked them why they were ignoring the other direction - although I suppose the answer would have been that they were checking for speeding in an area with lots of side roads and pedestrians rather than speeding approaching a fairly long stretch of grade-seperated road.

Seth Brundle

Andrew Duffy wrote:

I presume it was a manned speed check? If you felt really strongly about it you could have doubled back and asked them why they were ignoring the other direction - although I suppose the answer would have been that they were checking for speeding in an area with lots of side roads and pedestrians rather than speeding approaching a fairly long stretch of grade-seperated road.

On the outbound side, there are sometimes manned checks at the brow of the hill (beside a turn off) and also sometimes past the foxhunter, at the end of a long straight (near junction for Griffen valley or Esker or whatever) but more frequently there are vans parked on the footpath(!) of the flyover bridge for liffey valley. These IIRC are unmanned.
On the inbound side there are sometimes a van or men catching people just at the bridge @ Woodies.

irlirishkev

Anyone working in Eastpoint Business Park will probably know this one...

Drivers turning right onto the Alfie Byrne Road, and then stopping in the middle of the junction. Why do they stop? Because they think the red light (placed there, like in most junctions, for the benefit of those who overshoot the red light on the main road) is there for them. It's not. If it was, then the green light they just followed, would not be green. I honestly believe some people have never seen traffic lights before.

I don't think I explained that very well, but anyone who's seen this happen will know straight away what I mean. Usually ends up with a large queue of cars beeping at one particular moron.. :rolleyes:

K.

therecklessone

leeroybrown wrote:

Drivers on roundabouts full stop. I don't really trust the ones who indicate either.

I'm sorry to say I feel your pain. Its gotten to the stage where I just don't trust drivers on certain roundabouts, the Dublin Airport one being a prime example.

Seth Brundle

it all comes down to the fact that the majority of Irish drivers are crap, having completed either no test or else an inadequate one. Furthermore, the state allows thousands of unqualified drivers to take cars out on a daily basis.
The NCT was introduced (eventually, because of an EU directive) both as an environmental measure and to help reduce accidents caused by faulty cars. However, I remember reading that faulty cars were only responsible for <2% of traffic accidents - the majority of incidents are caused by poor driver control.
However, there should be a mechanism to re-test drivers every two or three years. Driving in this country is regarded as a right and not a privilege (which it should be)!

dcGT

Drivers who proceed to drive like the clappers in the right lane, knowing full well that there is a set of lights up ahead with a right turn queue (they want to go straight on). They will then proceed to force their way back into the left lane at the very last second having passed as many cars as possible....really annoys me. You can always tell what these drivers are up to as you say to yourself, "he's going to cut in now" :mad:

Another pet hate: Taxi drivers, and everything about their driving! :rolleyes:

DC.

Seth Brundle

Current favourite pet hate is wánkers who are too impatient to wait in a queue and decide to drive on the hard shoulder to pass everyone out.

Andrew Duffy

This was touched on above, but my only real hate in urban driving is people who don't understand traffic lights, particularly filters. The number of times motorists turn left through a pedestrian crossing ("but theres a green light in that funny forward pointing arrow - it must apply to me") or give themselves anyeurisms berating the driver in front of them obeying the red light is shocking. Just as common, but not as dangerous, is the motorist waiting for a full green light to turn left while a green (or flashing amber) filter is on.
Oh, there's another, but it's solely as a pedestrian - motorists who treat the pedestrian area of a junction (particularly a marked, light controlled one, although I still don't forgive anyone who doesn't respect the fact that the stop line is before the footpath, regardless of where it is actually painted on the road) as a zone to wait in for the junction to clear. They are obviously not moronic enough to block the junction for other traffic, but block it for pedestrians. Even traditionally "good" drivers like truckers, bus drivers and especially bikers are guilty of this.

Victor

kbannon wrote:

Current favourite pet hate is wánkers who are too impatient to wait in a queue and decide to drive on the hard shoulder to pass everyone out.

Yeah, I hate them. They always cut me off when I'm trying to overtake on the left.

Andrew Duffy wrote:

Oh, there's another, but it's solely as a pedestrian - motorists who treat the pedestrian area of a junction (particularly a marked, light controlled one, although I still don't forgive anyone who doesn't respect the fact that the stop line is before the footpath, regardless of where it is actually painted on the road) as a zone to wait in for the junction to clear. They are obviously not moronic enough to block the junction for other traffic, but block it for pedestrians. Even traditionally "good" drivers like truckers, bus drivers and especially bikers are guilty of this.

It's the same where a cycle path goes across a side road. The emerging traffic treats it as a "zone of immunity" that they can obstruct at will, but they daren't take command of the junction.

D!ve^Bomb!

people who don't indicate,

when there are two lanes of traffic turning right onto a main road and the guy/girl in the outside lane cuts you off because they're too stupid to realise that there are other cars turning with them,

people who pull out infront of you at the last minute,

tailgaters!! ****ers, i'm not going any fukn faster and thats final,

people going 25mph in a 50 zone!!

scumbags with huge spoilers and tinted windows - sad bastards and their '92 civics/micras

gold alloys! wtf is that about

most drivers are just awful!!


i've been driving for 1 month and only had 3 lessons and i don't do any of this ****!! im a lot more competent on the roads than most gob****es

Tommy Vercetti

I hate everyone and everything. The end.

leeroybrown

kbannon wrote:

The NCT was introduced (eventually, because of an EU directive) both as an environmental measure and to help reduce accidents caused by faulty cars. However, I remember reading that faulty cars were only responsible for <2% of traffic accidents - the majority of incidents are caused by poor driver control.

True. This reminds me of the standard industry management mentality. If you talk to people who deal with problems first hadn they'll say "fix these two things and we'll save 20%". When you talk to their managers they'll say "and if we fix these 1000 small things we'll save 5%".

kbannon wrote:

However, there should be a mechanism to re-test drivers every two or three years. Driving in this country is regarded as a right and not a privilege (which it should be)!

A re-test would have a 60%+ failure rate and would make the waits at the test centres so long that abolishing the test might start to seem reasonable.

To my mind the problem is that the majority of drivers in this country were never trained to drive properly. Fix this and a lot of problems will rectify themselves down stream.

dcGT

Tommy Vercetti wrote:

I hate everyone and everything. The end.

That just about sums up this thread

DC.

flyz

1. 80% of people on any given roundabout. namely The Kinsale Road Rounabout and The Tunnel Roundabout in Cork.
2. Lack of indicators used, or lack of ability to turn them off after turn is made.
3. Drivers who used the left lane on the Dublin road, which is a left turn only, coming into the Tunnel Roundabout to go straight. I encountered and Artic Lorry doing this one day.
4. As a follow on from the last one, people who use incorrect lanes so not to queue.
5. Rubber Necks
6. People who hog the overtaking lane, and then beep and flash you when you undertake them.

Seth Brundle

Actually I dont think one has been said - front & especially rear fog lights
Turn them off, ya bastards - you reckon fog is so bad the car behind won't see you?

highdef

When turning right from the Howth Road onto Fairview Strand, people who keep to the left but are turning right

Fabritzo

I have one!! I hope it hasn't been said already.

I've seen this happen on at least 3 occasions, it's people reversing up the hard shoulder of motorways because they've just missed their exit. Crazy mofo **** if you ask me.