Some drivers are so stupid

McSpud

Saw a taxi driver pulled in by motorcycle guard tonight.

Taxi was driving outbound on the left lane of Dublin South City quays. As he passed the James Joyce bridge the guard was hovering behind. Taxi continues on his merry way & drives straight through the next lights still in the left lane - I believe the left is a left only turn even for taxis?

Guard flicks on the siren & pulls him in. Like shooting fish in a barrel. :pac:

FredH3as

Stunning :eek:

CharlieCroker

Well if he's stupid enough to do it in front of a Garda, then delighted for him. He wont do it again in a hurry.

robtri

ha ha ha ha ha.....
sorry I just really don't like taxi drivers and love it when they are caught doing stupid crap like this....

Jaysoose

Wish there was a guard at Scotts roundabout last night to catch the taxi man who was in the left hand lane to go into blanch village but decided he was going straight through the rounadabout instead. Its all ok though because he put his arm out the window after forcing the guy to his right to jam on. Twats.

CreepingDeath

McSpud wrote: »

Saw a taxi driver pulled in by motorcycle guard tonight.

Taxi was driving outbound on the left lane of Dublin South City quays. As he passed the James Joyce bridge the guard was hovering behind. Taxi continues on his merry way & drives straight through the next lights still in the left lane - I believe the left is a left only turn even for taxis?

Guard flicks on the siren & pulls him in. Like shooting fish in a barrel. :pac:

Absolutely delighted !

The number of times I've nearly been side-swiped by ignorant self-centred taxi drivers in that very spot...

I'd a thread on exactly this before. Linky

NiSmO

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fonda

Seen a car undertake a garda traffic car yesterday on a 2 lane 60 kmph road.:eek: I was staying back behind the squad car doing about 80 and this car undertook me and then the squad car so he had to be doin near 100!!!!
And the squad car didnt even pull him:eek:

BlackWizard

fonda wrote: »

Seen a car undertake a garda traffic car yesterday on a 2 lane 60 kmph road.:eek: I was staying back behind the squad car doing about 80 and this car undertook me and then the squad car so he had to be doin near 100!!!!
And the squad car didnt even pull him:eek:

So you and the garda traffic car where cruising along in the overtaking lane... :mad:

fonda

BlackWizard wrote: »

So you and the garda traffic car where cruising along in the overtaking lane... :mad:

No I had just pulled into the right hand lane as I was turning right at a roundabout at the end of the road and the left lane is only for turning left

deceit

BlackWizard wrote: »

So you and the garda traffic car where cruising along in the overtaking lane... :mad:

overtaking lanes are only for motorways if i'm not mistaken?

shrapnel222

deceit wrote: »

overtaking lanes are only for motorways if i'm not mistaken?

on a dual carriage way, if there's no one around you, you should be in the left hand lane. period

BlackWizard

fonda wrote: »

No I had just pulled into the right hand lane as I was turning right at a roundabout at the end of the road and the left lane is only for turning left

Sorry.. Just so many overtaking lane hoggers these days.

FredH3as

fonda wrote: »

Seen a car undertake a garda traffic car yesterday on a 2 lane 60 kmph road.:eek: I was staying back behind the squad car doing about 80 and this car undertook me and then the squad car so he had to be doin near 100!!!!
And the squad car didnt even pull him:eek:

So hogging the overtake lane AND speeding, then you complain about other drivers. Double standards me thinks

andrewh5

FredH3as wrote: »

So hogging the overtake lane AND speeding, then you complain about other drivers. Double standards me thinks

What about the gardai though? They were in the wrong three times! Once for being in the RH lane themselves, again for speeding and again for not pulling the speeding undertaking driver!

mikemac

McSpud wrote: »

Taxi was driving outbound on the left lane of Dublin South City quays. As he passed the James Joyce bridge the guard was hovering behind. Taxi continues on his merry way & drives straight through the next lights still in the left lane - I believe the left is a left only turn even for taxis?

Many (but not most) taxi's do this at that junction. Feckin dangerous as 3 lanes become two.

That's a left turn lane but used to skip traffic by many. The buses don't do it though.

Stick a garda there for a week and start lashing out fines and we'd make an impact on the national debt :P

Stark

Do you not read other posts in the thread?

mikemac

Stark wrote: »

Do you not read other posts in the thread?

aimed at me?

fonda

FredH3as wrote: »

So hogging the overtake lane AND speeding, then you complain about other drivers. Double standards me thinks

Its not an overtaking lane and its not a dual carriageway its just a link road that has two lanes and the speed limit is way too low, nobody (not even the guards as you can see from my post) stick to the 60 limit.

fonda

andrewh5 wrote: »

What about the gardai though? They were in the wrong three times! Once for being in the RH lane themselves, again for speeding and again for not pulling the speeding undertaking driver!

4 times actually forgot to say they turned left from the right hand lane!!!!

Stark

mikemac wrote: »

aimed at me?

Sorry, you jumped in between me typing my post and hitting reply Was referring to the people complaining about overtaking lane hogging.

BlackWizard

Stark wrote: »

Sorry, you jumped in between me typing my post and hitting reply Was referring to the people complaining about overtaking lane hogging.

Sorry i started that but then the OP explained the lane situation. Everyone else seemed to ignore his response