Rush Hour Traffic - Stopping On Pedestrian Crossings

az2wp0sye65487

This is something I've seen since I started driving, but lately it seems to be a lot more common and it's getting on my nerves!

Scenario:

• Heavy traffic in a town/city/wherever all heading the one direction.
• Straight road with a set of lights in the middle to facilitate pedestrian crossing.
• All the traffic ahead of the lights is at a standstill, so you can go nowhere.
• The lights at the pedestrian crossing turn amber - so some idiot decides to 'beat the red light' and moves forward about 3 metres into the crossing - but can go no further because of the traffic at a standstill ahead of him/her....

All this achieves is that you're blocking pedestrians from crossing the road safely! You're not making up any time/distance because by the time the light goes green again the traffic ahead either won't have moved or will only have moved a few metres.

It's absolutely pointless to do it - So why do some motorists do it anyway?!?! :mad:

bobin fudge

when walking through the cars, walk into the front of the car by "mistake" will learn them for the next time not to park on the crossing

aujopimur

It's typical of Irish bad driving, not alone in this, but in most areas.
Road traffic laws are so rarely enforced it's not suprising that that people indulge in all sorts of misbehaviour.
A few more on the spot fines would go a long way to improve driving standards.
When was the last time you heard of a motorist getting a fine for faulty lights, running red lights or stopping in a box junction etc.
When you hit most people in the pocket it tends to change things.

Tallon

See this all the time!

Another one is when there is traffic ahead at a standstill like you said, and I decide to let a person cross the road in front of me, or a car pull across me and head the opposite direction

Then some fúcking asshole behind starts beeping!!

"Oh sorry Mr Driver, let me just pull 5 foot forward so that you can do the same"

It's annoying because you're going nowhere anyway

dudara

Jaxxon Helpful Summertime wrote: »

This is something I've seen since I started driving, but lately it seems to be a lot more common and it's getting on my nerves!

Scenario:

• Heavy traffic in a town/city/wherever all heading the one direction.
• Straight road with a set of lights in the middle to facilitate pedestrian crossing.
• All the traffic ahead of the lights is at a standstill, so you can go nowhere.
• The lights at the pedestrian crossing turn amber - so some idiot decides to 'beat the red light' and moves forward about 3 metres into the crossing - but can go no further because of the traffic at a standstill ahead of him/her....

All this achieves is that you're blocking pedestrians from crossing the road safely! You're not making up any time/distance because by the time the light goes green again the traffic ahead either won't have moved or will only have moved a few metres.

It's absolutely pointless to do it - So why do some motorists do it anyway?!?! :mad:

They're not intentionally doing it - they're just being blind, unaware of their surroundings and not driving according to the road markings.

blackwhite

Guide dogs are trained not to let their owner cross the road if a vehicle is blocking any part of the marked crossing.

Seasoft

Funny, but I started a thread on the same topic a few days ago:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81345606

Cabaal

blackwhite wrote: »

Guide dogs are trained not to let their owner cross the road if a vehicle is blocking any part of the marked crossing.

Great, so if idiot motorists continue doing it during rush hour the person can't cross the road,

GreeBo

bobin fudge wrote: »

when walking through the cars, walk into the front of the car by "mistake" will learn them for the next time not to park on the crossing

screw that, I just walk into their car.
works even better when you are crossing from the other side.

az2wp0sye65487

dudara wrote: »

They're not intentionally doing it - they're just being blind, unaware of their surroundings and not driving according to the road markings.

Exactly - they're driving without paying attention.... ie idiots!

blackwhite

Cabaal wrote: »

Great, so if idiot motorists continue doing it during rush hour the person can't cross the road,

Exactly

deandean

A most unpleasant driver parked on the ped-X as I was crossing it at Dundrum a few years back, she was right up to the bumper of the car in front, then she gave me a dirty look, I hopped up and walked across the bonnet of her car and down the other side! She did some load of beeping, but sod her she created the problem.

wonski

blackwhite wrote: »

Guide dogs are trained not to let their owner cross the road if a vehicle is blocking any part of the marked crossing.

They should give those dogs additional training about how to deal with morons who block crossings.
I know in some cases the driver just didn't make it, or the car in front of him stopped suddenly. But in most cases they have no regard to others.
The same applies to those yellow boxes. How many times i missed oportunity to join the road only because someone decided it is perfect place to stop.

RATM

OP the next time it happens just walk blindly into the front of their car and then begin rolling across the bonnet. There'll be a message in it for them.

Fighting Irish

Seasoft wrote: »

Funny, but I started a thread on the same topic a few days ago:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81345606

well done

Markcheese

Was in phoenix park in summer , crossing the road with a buggy at a marked crossing ,a woman in a big Audi slowed then stopped across the crossing .. As we passed behind her car I tapped on the window... Nasty look... Then scared confused look as central locking clicked on

az2wp0sye65487

RATM wrote: »

OP the next time it happens just walk blindly into the front of their car and then begin rolling across the bonnet. There'll be a message in it for them.

I normally notice it when I'm driving... Usually in the car behind going "what was the point of that?"
Another one that gets me is people who drive up on to the footpath as if they're heading in to their driveway, but then just stop and park there! (With the front of their car in the driveway and the back sticking out on to the road)..... Inconsiderate cnuts!

opti0nal

Another variatio on this is cars instead of stopping behind the stop line roll forward onto the pedestrian crossing area, sometimes inching ahead into the junction. The problem is not just that of blocking of the pedestrian crossing but also, they're no longer on top of the sensors which are set back from the stop line. So, they're in the way of pedestrians and they're making the cars behind them wait longer for a signal change. Worse still, when the lights do change, they don't see them as they've rolled too far forward into the junction.... more delay.