There is a God!!!!!!!!!

mfceiling

Driving up the long mile road on sunday morning and a young guy in a bright green kangoo van sits tight on my arse then cause i won't go over the speed limit he undertakes me in the bus lane and then cuts across the front of me. He proceeds to do this to a few other cars making most of them brake to allow him back in.

Later on sunday i'm driving out the naas road towards newlands and lo and behold my little friend is weaving in and out of the lanes like something from the touring car championship. The lights at newlands are just going red when he tries to bomb through..........at the last minute he jumps on the brakes and skids out into the middle of the road then jams the van into reverse and nearly hits the car behind him!!

I'm now beside him - we're the first vehicles ready to take off from the lights...he cops me and is mouthing etc....i've the missus and 3 little ones in the back so i'm not interested in his "heroics"

Look to my left and 2 motorbike garda are turning to head for naas....however they pull in to the side of the road and as my light goes green one garda stands in front of my car while the other waves mr green van in to the side of the road.........the garda shakes his head at your man and gives me the "thumbs up" to drive on.............karma i think it's called!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Atomic Pineapple

mfceiling wrote: »

karma i think it's called!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You wouldn't call it the garda doing there job?

Pity they dont police the m50 like that, there is forever idiots weaving in and out of traffic on it

KamiKazi

draffodx wrote: »

You wouldn't call it the garda doing there job?

Pity they dont police the m50 like that, there is forever idiots weaving in and out of traffic on it

There wouldn't be if people knew how to use more than one lane.

maddness

Pity they dont police the m50 like that, there is forever idiots weaving in and out of traffic on it[/QUOTE]

Pity most people dont get the fact that we drive on the left in Ireland. That includes the left lane of a 3 lane motorway.

McSpud

I have always wonder do people the like OP described drive like that every day or was he just in a hurry. Its not possible to drive like that & no have accidents.

Colonel Sanders

maddness wrote: »

Pity they dont police the m50 like that, there is forever idiots weaving in and out of traffic on it

Pity most people dont get the fact that we drive on the left in Ireland. That includes the left lane of a 3 lane motorway.[/QUOTE]

While not condoning the behaviour of the person the OP is giving out about this is a huge problem.

Why they bothered to build 3 lane motorways I'll never know as the extreme left lane is always practically empty. I definitely think traffic on a busy enough motorway goes 10-20km/ph slower due to people not using the correct lane

milltown

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Why they bothered to build 3 lane motorways I'll never know as the extreme left lane is always practically empty.

Agreed. They should have made them longer instead of wider.

Muckie

Brilliant stuff, i think the asshole in the green van is a neighbour
of mine, i do often see him flying around, nice to hear he got he's
wings clipped. Pity you couldnt have taken a pic :pac:

MojoMaker

Was coming along the ballycoolin road yesterday when a black glanza approached the roadabout at Blanch corporate park at a fair clip behind a car driving at an appropriate speed and had to brake violently exiting the roundabout causing him to clip the kerb with his left front wheel and spinning him 180 into the middle of the road.

This was about 2pm. Would have been a sticky situation had there been another pimply youth following close behind.

Maybe it's just as well insurance rates are on the up.

Cuddlesworth

mfceiling wrote: »

Driving up the long mile road on sunday morning and a young guy in a bright green kangoo van sits tight on my arse then cause i won't go over the speed limit he undertakes me in the bus lane and then cuts across the front of me. He proceeds to do this to a few other cars making most of them brake to allow him back in.

So he had enough space to undertake you but you didn't have enough space to let him by?

mfceiling

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

So he had enough space to undertake you but you didn't have enough space to let him by?

I don't understand what you are saying.........should i have pulled into the bus lane to let him past??
He cut in and out of the lanes like something out of gran turismo.
I had a 4 year old and a 2 year old in the back of the car...sorry if i am at or slightly below the 50kms limit but i was driving at the same speed as the traffic in front and obviously it wasn't good enough for this guy so he weaves in and out until he reaches the next set of traffic lights where he is a whole..........wait for it..........4 cars in front of me!!
Go ahead and undertake and weave in and out of traffic and speeds way in excess of the permitted but when the garda catch up with you....best of luck!!

Cuddlesworth

Sorry I missed the bus lane part.

But I will say that when your in a rush and willing to ignore some of the stupider speed limits in Dublin sometimes you might end up four cars in front and sometimes you might make three or four light changes that you would have missed saving yourself a huge chunk of time.

By traveling 15kph over the limit on my main route I cut my travel time down from 25 to 15 minutes because the light sequences punish those who obey the limit.

yop

Lol thats funny. Shame isn't it.

Happened now twice to me with a company van, have reported the guy to the company first time, they acknowledged it, the 2nd time they never replied.

I will be on the road twice this week the same time as this hero, so this time the old Gardas will be called. But then again will they do anything, I think not!

duffarama

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

But I will say that when your in a rush and willing to ignore some of the stupider speed limits in Dublin sometimes

They may be stupid but they still have to be obeyed, the limit is the limit.

Anan1

mfceiling wrote: »

I don't understand what you are saying.........should i have pulled into the bus lane to let him past?

Was the bus lane in operation on Sunday morning?

ocokev

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

But I will say that when your in a rush and willing to ignore some of the stupider speed limits in Dublin sometimes you might end up four cars in front and sometimes you might make three or four light changes that you would have missed saving yourself a huge chunk of time..

I see the same cars driving erratically in a rush alot of mornings, they dont get there any much quicker than people obeying the limits.
These are the same people who leave the house late every morning, drive like lunitics stressed that they will be late for work and when they do get to work, spend the day complaining about having to be at work.
I rem one driver who would tailgate, undertake etc every time I saw her, smashed in someones boot one rainy morning.

lynchie

Anan1 wrote: »

Was the bus lane in operation on Sunday morning?

Long Mile Road bus lane is 24/7 AFAIK

deman

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

By traveling 15kph over the limit on my main route I cut my travel time down from 25 to 15 minutes because the light sequences punish those who obey the limit.

Why don't you just leave 10 minutes earlier?

donvito99

mfceiling wrote: »

"thumbs up"

Awesome...

chris85

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

By traveling 15kph over the limit on my main route I cut my travel time down from 25 to 15 minutes because the light sequences punish those who obey the limit.

ah come on, You aint that important you wont be missed for another 10 mins. lets hope a child doesnt run out on the road then he will never make it home with you around.

CONM

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Sorry I missed the bus lane part.

But I will say that when your in a rush and willing to ignore some of the stupider speed limits in Dublin sometimes you might end up four cars in front and sometimes you might make three or four light changes that you would have missed saving yourself a huge chunk of time.

By traveling 15kph over the limit on my main route I cut my travel time down from 25 to 15 minutes because the light sequences punish those who obey the limit.

N11 by any chance? I find that by doing similar I make most of the lights