Stop Line at Traffic Lights

Seasoft

Please someone explain why many drivers feel the need to cross the stop line when lights are red? It won't speed up the green light showing!

Typical example here: both have crossed completely over the first line and are straddling the next two and encroaching on the pedestrian crossing. Both arrived at the lights after the went red, so were not caught in this position.

(Oh and to stall queries; my front seat passenger took the photo.)

Cookie_Monster

it's done to prevent those pesky cyclists from being able to use the designated area in front of the stop line (in many cases). that way you p1ss them off and keep them behind you, saving them from themselves or something like that.

not content to just stay behind the line a lot of people begin to creep through the lights when they think the lights should be about to turn green too

pajo1981

Some people are just knobends.

Tallon

Seasoft wrote: »

Please someone explain why many drivers feel the need to cross the stop line when lights are red?

Ok, I've just emailed them... I'll let you know the response

condra

Looks like they are "creeping".

If a guy creeps an inch forward at a red light, the guy in the lane beside him will often inch forward more, and it can turn into this strange little micro-pissing-contest.

Padraig Mor

I find that drivers who 'creep' over the line are usually the slowest to take off when the lights actually change.

Atomic Pineapple

Padraig Mor wrote: »

I find that drivers who 'creep' over the line are usually the slowest to take off when the lights actually change.

Me too!

condra

because they go so far they can't see the lights above their heads :pac:

January

Ok this might sound weird but there's a t junction in Finglas Dublin 11 here.

Where you HAVE to go over the white line to trip the signal for the light to go green... sometimes people can be sat there for 7/8 minutes until they realise it but as soon as they inch themselves over the white line the lights change...

cats.life

Padraig Mor wrote: »

I find that drivers who 'creep' over the line are usually the slowest to take off when the lights actually change.

thats called ''false hope''.

Tea 1000

It's more annoying when people stop well short of the line, and don't cover the induction loop...

OldmanMondeo

Technically it is breaking a red light. You are meant to stop BEFORE the white lin.

BronsonTB

Also a 2 penalty point offence....

In May, In Dublin, 169 people got points for Failing to stop before stop sign/stop

Failure to stop a vehicle before stop sign/stop line

http://www.rsa.ie/Documents/Licensed%20Drivers/Penalty%20Points%20Chart.pdf

jenizzle

Tea 1000 wrote: »

It's more annoying when people stop well short of the line, and don't cover the induction loop...

Hells yeah it is. Sitting there for feckin' ages till they cop they have to move forward a foot or two.

I also get annoyed by 'creepers' who slow down waaaay before the lights when they are red and trundle along for 500m at 10km an hour up to and across the line - why can't they just drive up to the lights and stop like everyone else? Mostly annoying when I'm turning left or right at a filter light but I can't access the lane till they get a move on.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

jenizzle wrote: »

I also get annoyed by 'creepers' who slow down waaaay before the lights when they are red and trundle along for 500m at 10km an hour up to and across the line - why can't they just drive up to the lights and stop like everyone else? Mostly annoying when I'm turning left or right at a filter light but I can't access the lane till they get a move on.

I would say that is some people trying to conserve petrol.

bazzachazza

Worst eejits are the ones that don't learn i.e stop passed the line can't see the lights and have to be beeped when they go green, then go up to the next lights to do the exact ****ing same thing.

JustAddWater

It annoys the hell outa me too

Especially when i'm turning a tight corner and some clown went over the line and I have to take the turn even tighter! Also wrecks my head when i'm walking and another clown decides to block the pedestrian crossway

If that line were a car, you would have to stop before it. If you can't stop before the line then you're not a good driver, no point pretending. It's an offence and very annoying and inconsiderate of other users of the road

Buffman

A set of these at every set of lights should solve this problem!:D

Berty

What about the folks who cross over the white line at lights and end up NOT parked on the traffic light sensor. Basically they sit there for a long long long time waiting for the light to go green.

Later a car comes up and stops on the sensor, light goes green and they complain to Joe Duffy how the lights in their area take so long to change.

MORONS!!! :mad:

Tea 1000

jenizzle wrote: »

Hells yeah it is. Sitting there for feckin' ages till they cop they have to move forward a foot or two.

I also get annoyed by 'creepers' who slow down waaaay before the lights when they are red and trundle along for 500m at 10km an hour up to and across the line - why can't they just drive up to the lights and stop like everyone else? Mostly annoying when I'm turning left or right at a filter light but I can't access the lane till they get a move on.

Ya, creepers drive me mad too. Especially on a hill... why wear out your clutch like that? I refuse to creep. Drive up to a safe distance from the car in front and stop. If he does his little creep another few metres, off he goes. I'm stopped till the light goes green.