most annoying thing on the road?

ustari

Want to hear what all your personal hates or gripes are on the road?!

mine has to be waiting on a car coming around a roundabout and then they turn off just before your junction without indicating. Wasting your time and making you look like an utter tit at the same time!!

let's keep it fairly light hearted i.e. nothing about uninsured drivers etc.

Stark

Traffic lights on roundabouts. Fine in peak traffic, but they should really change to flashing amber off-peak. Getting on the M50 at Sandyford can be really annoying when you're sitting at lights and noone else on the roundabout.

Anan1

ustari wrote: »

mine has to be waiting on a car coming around a roundabout and then they turn off just before your junction without indicating. Wasting your time and making you look like an utter tit at the same time!!

I'm not sure I get this one. Whether or not you can pull out is determined by how far away they are and how fast they are going, not what way they are indicating. NEVER trust another car's indicators.

daedalus2097

Roundabouts again Thing I hate is following the lane markings around a roundabout, as signposted, only to find out that you should be in a different lane at the exit. In fairness, a lot of these along the M50 have been fixed or are being rebuilt at the moment, but they're a pain in the a$$, especially when you don't know them that well and the road's busy... You end up having to go around again!

craichoe

cars

C_Breeze

speed limits

dade

Stark wrote: »

Traffic lights on roundabouts.

I always thought teh point of a roundabout was to keep traffic flowing and to avoid adding traffic lights. seems teh Irish must have had a few lying around and felt it best to stick them up someplace.

ballooba

Cars braking and THEN indicating. Drives me potty.

fletch

Other road users
Sitting at a red traffic light when there is no traffic going the other way!

WindSock

When People don't INDICATE, really grinds my gears :mad:

mr kr0nik

Front fog lights anyone??

fricatus

Tractors. The 15 km of the N9 immediately north of Waterford is a very busy stretch, but it's all hills, bends and no hard shoulder.

Luckily I'm going southwards at 17.40 in the evening, but Wednesday and yesterday I was making my usual slow progress towards Mullinavat, when I noticed that nothing had passed me coming the other way for about 3 minutes.

I was just about to toss a coin: let's see, it's got to be either an accident or a tractor? Flew through Mullinavat village, not a sinner to be seen. Just exiting south of there and what did I see only Mr Tractor Driver tootling along at 20 km/h.

I counted the vehicles backed up behind him: 61 in total. There are countries where he'd be taken out of the cab and beaten to death for causing a holdup like that.

More seriously, as there's absolutely no hard shoulder for about a 7 km stretch (at the same point where all the cars were queueing), what would happen if an ambulance had to get past?

C_Breeze

WindSock wrote: »

When People don't INDICATE, really grinds my gears :mad:

No, that would be a faulty clutch

Anan1

mr kr0nik wrote: »

Front fog lights anyone??

Or, worse again, rear foglights.

Stark

People using the bus lane to cut you off.

Stark

fricatus wrote:

I counted the vehicles backed up behind him: 61 in total. There are countries where he'd be taken out of the cab and beaten to death for causing a holdup like that.

As bad as him are the people who probably had ample opportunity to overtake him but didn't.

mthd

WindSock wrote: »

When People don't INDICATE, really grinds my gears :mad:

+1 :mad:

ustari

It's rare people use indicators on roundabouts anymore, i meant when the car is bombing around so you know you won't get out in front of him but then he pulls off the roundabout. Another one of mine is getting the "timing" wrong in sets of traffic lights and hitting every single red!

Hagar

Hedgehogs.

RobAMerc

rear fogs
driving slow
right lane hogging
driving slow
going left before turning right ( no idea why people think they need to do this unless in a truck )
driving slow
blocking roundabouts
driving slow
staying too close to the car in front
driving slow
not using lights in poor visibility
driving slow
flashing cars that have over taken you ( those bastar*s )
driving slow

and lastly
driving slow

fricatus

Stark wrote: »

As bad as him are the people who probably had ample opportunity to overtake him but didn't.

Yeah, that "grinds my gears" too! But drive that road if you don't believe me: there's fúck all opportunity to overtake.

And extending that point, I hate when my turn comes to overtake, say a tractor, and as I'm accelerating, the guy behind me decides he'll overtake both of us at once (without signalling of course) half a second after I move and then has to slam on the brakes.

Usually it's someone in a very powerful car, but I would have thought the etiquette to overtaking a slow tractor (and the only safe way of handling the situation) was for the person directly behind the slow-mover to go when it's clear and let everyone move up a place...

Wishbone Ash

ustari wrote:

let's keep it fairly light hearted

OK


Misplaced courtesy!

1. When you're the last vehicle in a line of traffic, it's a bit pointless to stop to allow another to pull out. It is much safer and less confusing to keep going - the other vehicle can pull out once you've passed.

To make it worse, I then feel that I have to 'thank' them. :rolleyes:


2. Those people who beckon pedestrians to cross the street/road without checking the surrounding traffic situation.

It's very dangerous and would result in an instant failure in a driving test.


3. Those motorists who, when I'm waiting to turn right at a yellow box junction in heavy/standing traffic, gesture that they are 'allowing me to cross in front of them!

Do they not realise that they are obliged to allow me to cross? What do they think the box is for! Ggggrrrrrrrr!


4. And like the previous, those who impatiently beckon me on when an obstacle is at their side of the road.

I generally have the right of way in that situation - I decide not you!!

LOTTOWINNER

While attempting to parallel park, by firstly indicating, driving past the space, and then reversing into the space, but before you get a chance there's a car about 6 inches from your rear bumper with a vacant look on his/her face (normally her)

Wishbone Ash

LOTTOWINNER wrote: »

(normally her)

Agree!


Or when in a truck and need to reverse into a premises, the normal procedure is to pull over nearer the centre of the road and put on the hazzards before selecting reverse. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of motorists out there (usually car drivers) who cannot grasp the concept that the truck needs to reverse and instead of allowing plenty of room, they drive right up under the rear or attempt to pass! :rolleyes:

Poppy Cock

Stark wrote: »

Traffic lights on roundabouts. .

Not sure why you're so confused. If some roundabouts had no lights, then certain secondary roads would have little or no chance of getting on to them, as the primary road or dual carraigeway would simply have a constant flow.

stovelid

fricatus wrote: »

I counted the vehicles backed up behind him: 61 in total. There are countries where he'd be taken out of the cab and beaten to death for causing a holdup like that.

I hear you.

I have a handy cross country shortcut that takes me about half way to work. The odd driver (often the same one) goes really slowly, and overtaking isn't an option because the road is hilly and has a lot of bends. If I looked up and saw about 15 people behind me, I'd pull over and let them by.

Also hate the usual stuff:

No indication, dawdling on the entrance slip, tailgating etc.

apple_danish

Headlights:

1. People who feel the need to flash their headlights constantly at you because they believe you have not dipped your headlights!!!!! V Dangerous.

2. People who flick their headlights back on as they are passing you. Wait a friging fraction of a second!!!!!!!!

3. People who flash their lights on you during the daytime believing they're alerting you to the fact that you've left your lights on. It's like - I KNOW my lights are on!!!!!!!

CrowdedHouse

fricatus wrote: »

Tractors.



I counted the vehicles backed up behind him: 61 in total. There are countries where he'd be taken out of the cab and beaten to death for causing a holdup like that.

+1

and while I might have some tolerance for a farmer going about his business,it's usually some construction type using an agri tractor as a dump truck or low loader,driven my some young school drop out and probably using marked diesel as well :mad:

lil'bug

drivers in the wrong lane at round abouts who then race you around while talking/texting on their mobiles and than glare at you
that and tailgaters hate them f*ckers

Dr.Millah

Some pansy in a big jeep driving so close behind you that all you can see in the rear view is his grill and headlights. Very dangerous and anoying

NeMiSiS

fricatus wrote: »

Tractors. The 15 km of the N9 immediately north of Waterford is a very busy stretch, but it's all hills, bends and no hard shoulder.

Luckily I'm going southwards at 17.40 in the evening, but Wednesday and yesterday I was making my usual slow progress towards Mullinavat, when I noticed that nothing had passed me coming the other way for about 3 minutes.

I was just about to toss a coin: let's see, it's got to be either an accident or a tractor? Flew through Mullinavat village, not a sinner to be seen. Just exiting south of there and what did I see only Mr Tractor Driver tootling along at 20 km/h.

I counted the vehicles backed up behind him: 61 in total. There are countries where he'd be taken out of the cab and beaten to death for causing a holdup like that.

More seriously, as there's absolutely no hard shoulder for about a 7 km stretch (at the same point where all the cars were queueing), what would happen if an ambulance had to get past?

Not so long ago I saw a tractor on the N9 and I counted 93 cars behind him.. and building.
TK

el diablo

WindSock wrote: »

When People don't INDICATE, really grinds my gears :mad:

Front fog lights anyone??

these are my top two. very few people in this country know how to use their indicators.:mad:

And those idiots that use their front fogs all the time? don't get me started. :rolleyes:

Cionád

el diablo wrote: »

these are my top two. very few people in this country know how to use their indicators.:mad:

And those idiots that use their front fogs all the time? don't get me started. :rolleyes:

Yeah, these a re the big two for me aswell. Or people that "do" indicate, but only after they've started to turn!! :mad:

front fogs, especially when on ford-transit like vans, or jeeps!, or those really bright blue-ish lights and can be dazelling when your on backroads with a slight decline!! :mad:

Apart from this is people using the bus-lanes at rush hour on the N3, people stuck in traffic on the M50 that turn onto the merging lane so they can undertake a few cars ahead. :mad:

Driving too slow on motorway/dual carriageway overtaking lane. Driving to slow on perfectly safe, straight primary roads. :mad:

I could go on...

Tabnabs

People who leave a big (i.e. 5/6 car+) gap in front of them in heavy traffic, someone always cuts in and ads to the queue, nooooooooooooo :mad:

People who have badly levelled head lights, it's me who fooping flashes at you, how do you like being blinded???!! If you can see the shadow of the car ahead on an oncoming road sign, your lights are too high!! :mad:

Micras with fog lights and now Dublin Bus drivers who think it pimps their bus to have the front fog lights on. :mad:

All the idiots who use the hard shoulder 500m or more before the off ramp on the M50 (especially north bound at Firhouse) in heavy traffic. One day you will cause an accident!

cazzy

Driving at less than 120kpm in the fast lane of a motorway or driving slower than traffic in the slow lane - very annoying

Not dipping headlights

Stopping in yellow box junctions and blocking traffic as a result

Using Incorrect lanes entering a roundabout

Not indicating on roundabout

Throwing things out of window of car usually cig butts

Cyclists that dont obey ROTR

Beeping unnecesarily

enteing bus lane to turn too early (ie crossing straight white line before it breaks into a broekn line)

Tails142

apple_danish wrote: »

Headlights:

1. People who feel the need to flash their headlights constantly at you because they believe you have not dipped your headlights!!!!! V Dangerous.

2. People who flick their headlights back on as they are passing you. Wait a friging fraction of a second!!!!!!!!

3. People who flash their lights on you during the daytime believing they're alerting you to the fact that you've left your lights on. It's like - I KNOW my lights are on!!!!!!!

Sounds like your lights are misaligned to be honest.

If someone passes me blinding me with their dodgy lights I usually flip on my full beam out of anger just before they pass me. That way its unlikely they'll be dazzled and veer into me (I dont care if they spin off the road after I pass) and I'll have got revenge for them burning my cornias.

Maybe get it checked out...

copacetic

cazzy wrote: »

Driving at less than 120kpm in the fast lane of a motorway or driving slower than traffic in the slow lane - very annoying

Not dipping headlights

Stopping in yellow box junctions and blocking traffic as a result

Using Incorrect lanes entering a roundabout

Not indicating on roundabout

Throwing things out of window of car usually cig butts

Cyclists that dont obey ROTR

Beeping unnecesarily

enteing bus lane to turn too early (ie crossing straight white line before it breaks into a broekn line)

thinking the overtaking lane is the 'fast lane'

copacetic

apple_danish wrote: »

Headlights:

1. People who feel the need to flash their headlights constantly at you because they believe you have not dipped your headlights!!!!! V Dangerous.

2. People who flick their headlights back on as they are passing you. Wait a friging fraction of a second!!!!!!!!

3. People who flash their lights on you during the daytime believing they're alerting you to the fact that you've left your lights on. It's like - I KNOW my lights are on!!!!!!!

sounds like you drive around with your fogs on?

cazzy

copacetic wrote: »

thinking the overtaking lane is the 'fast lane'

I meant the lane on the right that is moving faster. The rules of the road refers to it as faster lane also - I do only use this for overtaking and then move back to the left lane if it is empty.

I also hate tailgaters - it is so dangerous. And people that overtake in a long row of traffic - usually dangeruosly. where do they think they are going to get to with a long line of traffic . In more than a ew cases Ive seen this dangerous driving and then a few miles up the road they have crashed into a wall or something. Saw it a week ago - this guy weaving betwen traffic to try to get to work quicket during morning rush hour traffic. going into and out of wrong lanes and going thru lights when they have turned red. He didnt get any further than me in the end and ended up sending some guy on a motor bike flying through the air when he failed to stop at a red light and went straight into a motor bike instead.

copacetic

cazzy wrote: »

I meant the lane on the right that is moving faster. The rules of the road refers to it as faster lane also - I do only use this for overtaking and then move back to the left lane if it is empty.

I also hate tailgaters - it is so dangerous. And people that overtake in a long row of traffic - usually dangeruosly. where do they think they are going to get to with a long line of traffic . In more than a ew cases Ive seen this dangerous driving and then a few miles up the road they have crashed into a wall or something. Saw it a week ago - this guy weaving betwen traffic to try to get to work quicket during morning rush hour traffic. going into and out of wrong lanes and going thru lights when they have turned red. He didnt get any further than me in the end and ended up sending some guy on a motor bike flying through the air when he failed to stop at a red light and went straight into a motor bike instead.

you set it up, I had to do it!

The tax man

BMWs :D

















*legs it before it kicks off*

Stark

Did a creeping up to 50mph then hard braking back down to 25 mph session the whole way from Abbeyleix to Urlingford on Friday, presumably stuck behind some gob****e umpteen cars in front :mad:

mikemac

There are many things but I have just one point

People being slow to move when traffic lights change.

I'm on a motorcycle so I'll usually filtering past and looking with pity at all the people stuck in traffic as I get to the top of the queue

But I do not hold anyone up so as I am waiting for the lights to change I constantly watch the opposite lights to see when they are changing.
Also watching for the fools who are going to break the red lights.
So when the light does turn green I'm GONE and I glance back at the car 30 metres behind me who is only now moving off. Were they asleep back there?

People need to be more alert when they are No.1 in the queue.
And not start messing around selecting gears and putting down your newspaper. You should be ready.
Lights change then check for red light breakers and MOVE!

Wishbone Ash

cazzy wrote: »

I meant the lane on the right that is moving faster. The rules of the road refers to it as faster lane also

Eh, prehaps you could provide a link!

I have several editions of the ROTR and none make any mention of a 'fast' or 'slow' lane!

LOTTOWINNER

LOTTOWINNER wrote: »

While attempting to parallel park, by firstly indicating, driving past the space, and then reversing into the space, but before you get a chance there's a car about 6 inches from your rear bumper with a vacant look on his/her face (normally her)

I hate it when people, usually men, cause an obstruction because they have decided they want to reverse into a space that they have only noticed is becoming available after they have driven past.
Once everyone sorts themselves out and around the obstruction. Someone comes along and assumes that the car indicating but not angled for a reverse is waiting for a space to open up in front.
At which point the first driver gets out and starts bollicking the new occupant of the space.
Saw this happen last week, the first driver refused to move blocking traffic for 15-20 minutes until the second got fed up of being abused and moved.
Even though the space next to him became available.

copacetic

Moonbaby wrote: »

I hate it when people, usually men, cause an obstruction because they have decided they want to reverse into a space that they have only noticed is becoming available after they have driven past.

I'd imagine 90% of the time they have noticed but want to reverse in..

ballooba

Moonbaby wrote: »

I hate it when people, usually men, cause an obstruction because they have decided they want to reverse into a space that they have only noticed is becoming available after they have driven past.

Silly women don't realise that you have to reverse to parallel park properly. Even that some people prefer to reverse into all spaces so they don't have to reverse back out into traffic.

Atomic Pineapple

ballooba wrote: »

Silly women don't realise that you have to reverse to parallel park properly. Even that some people prefer to reverse into all spaces so they don't have to reverse back out into traffic.

yeh, they usually indicate to go into the space before they actually go by it and attempt to reverse into it, its the idiots that drive right up behind them because there not paying attention(usually women:D) that annoy me, they stop the driver from reversing into the spot safely and swiftly.

Stark

Moonbaby wrote:

Someone comes along and assumes that the car indicating but not angled for a reverse is waiting for a space to open up in front.

Add to copacetic's and ballooba's comments: Silly people who don't realise that the white light(s) on the back of a car means the car is about to reverse into the spot behind them, rather than drive into the spot in front.

draffodx wrote:

its the idiots that drive right up behind them because there not paying attention(usually women) that annoy me, they stop the driver from reversing into the spot safely and swiftly.

Yup. Especially annoying when you're trying to parallel park and they block a whole lane of traffic. Someone did it to me before on a road with two lanes each way and a third lane of dedicated car park spaces, and they stuck stubbornly to my ass behind me leaning on the horn rather than use the second lane to move around me. At that point I had already started reversing into the space :mad:

cjt156

People who can't use the merging lane on a Motorway or Dual Carriage way. They drive down the ramp and stop as soon as the broken line starts, indicating into stopped or slow-moving traffic, even though there's 300 meters of empty merging lane in front of them. This causes a tail back back up the ramp and snarles the whole junction.
N4 inbound onto M50 south used to be a prime example before the freeflow business. Cherrywood/Loughlinstown onto the N11 too.
Go to the END of the merge & zipper into the traffic.

cornbb

Tailgaters. Was on a dual carriageway on Sat night (very heavy rain and low visibility) and some ubermuppet wouldn't back off or overtake, despite the fact that the overtaking lane was empty and there was f*ck-all grip on the road. Someday, I would like to murder a tailgater before one of them murders me.

People who cut you off and think its ok because they pretend not to see you.

Drivers overtaking a long queue of cars on busy N-roads, with oncoming traffic. Its *not* ok to force other cars into the hard shoulder even if it does cut your journey time by 30 seconds :rolleyes:

Any form of dodgy driving with one or more kids standing up/moving around in the car. A good sign that someone is not fit to be a parent.

Loud exhausts.

Drivers who think the size of their vehicle always entitles them to the right of way.