Cabinteely/Loughlinstown dual carriageway catatonia?

nomdeboardie

To the car drivers on the Cabinteely/Loughlinstown dual carriageway who insist on travelling below 60 Kph (in good conditions and with no-one in front of them): the speed limit has been 80 (except for buses) for quite a while. If you really must continue with this could you stay in the left lane to let the rest of us drive around you, please? Pretty please? Gaah!

Pixied

God they are such a liability! The traffic in the 'slow' lane passes them by, while the traffic behind them in the 'fast' lane tries to weave the traffic to get past them and back into the 'fast' lane!

Although often I have looked at the offending car and usually the driver is an 80 or 90 year old man, I'm a bit more understanding then. Often they get in the 'fast' lane too far in advance if they have to take a right turn..

nomdeboardie

To my shame I gave a brief flash of my lights behind one today for what may have been the first time in my life, and it worked(!) I'm becoming a monster. Bwahahaha...

Cookie_Monster

nomdeboardie wrote: »

To my shame I gave a brief flash of my lights behind one today for what may have been the first time in my life, and it worked(!) I'm becoming a monster. Bwahahaha...

for shame nothing. Its the best solution, obviously being better than undertaking or tailgaiting. Maybe they'll even learn something

nomdeboardie

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

for shame nothing. Its the best solution, obviously being better than undertaking or tailgaiting. Maybe they'll even learn something

(Wrongly or wrongly I gleefully undertake in these situations if I get the chance, i.e. when I'm not stuck behind 2 cars driving side-by-side at exactly the same slow speed)

Fratton Fred

OP, unfortunately boards only allows me to thank you once, but i would thank you a thousand times if i could.

what really pisses me off is the ones who see you flash, or get frustrated and then slow down to make what they see as being a point. When the current course of "How to use a roundabout" adverts finishes, they could do with a few "How to drive on a two or three lane road" adverts.

nomdeboardie

Fratton Fred wrote: »

OP, unfortunately boards only allows me to thank you once, but i would thank you a thousand times if i could.

Thanks Fred, although I’m under no illusion that anyone from my target audience is likely to read it, so it’s mainly just me ranting!

Fratton Fred wrote: »

When the current course of "How to use a roundabout" adverts finishes, they could do with a few "How to drive on a two or three lane road" adverts.

I think it’s stuck in a loop, er, as it were. To be honest, I don’t think either that advert or the rules of the road booklet are sufficiently detailed on roundabouts, though, as there are a huge number of configurations re numbers of entry and exit roads and lanes per road, and I think a lot of people (myself included) are not clear exactly what to do for all of them. If they ever do get around to replacing it, that would indeed be a good topic, although one of many.

RosieJoe

You all need to go here, The Official R&R motoring/road rant thread

nomdeboardie

RosieJoe wrote: »

You all need to go here, The Official R&R motoring/road rant thread

Thanks, but this link just gives me a message that I "do not have permission to access this page", and I can't seem to ind that thread by searching

RosieJoe

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Thanks, but this link just gives me a message that I "do not have permission to access this page", and I can't seem to ind that thread by searching

Sorry, see here on how to get access to the form:

nomdeboardie

RosieJoe wrote: »

Sorry, see here on how to get access to the form:

Thanks RosieJoe, I'll keep this in mind for the future (don't really want to go through the whole permission-to-join thing at the moment ).

I see there's a similar lane-use thread on the Motors forum now also (and I know there have been related threads in the past), but I feel there may be some value to posting in a public forum for a particular geographical area re a problem that may relate partly to inadequate perception of a recent speed-limit change.

iSoap

After driving in Italy for 3 months, Irish drivers seem 10 times slower than Americans.

nomdeboardie

iSoap wrote: »

After driving in Italy for 3 months, Irish drivers seem 10 times slower than Americans.

Yes, although there are quite a few situations on our roads where I don’t think it’s safe to do the speed limit, and I act accordingly (in the left lane when on a DC or motorway), there does seem to be a lot of slow driving that I can’t doesn’t make much sense to me.