UK reg c*-ts

JAMES VTI S

Dose anyone else see the amount of people driving UK reg cars like complete noons ?

Why are they doing it, can they get away with it here or something ??

drunkmonkey

There on holidays, it's that time of the year.

endacl

There are plenty on Irish registrations doing the same across the border.

Have you also taken note of all the Irish reg's that drive like dicks down here, or any UK reg's that don't...?

Must say I've always been pretty surprised with how modestly the UK reg cars drive here.

CiniO

You mean something like that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9xR45eGO1Q

endacl

In fairness, that looked more like a genuine mistake. He/she went as soon as a green light appeared...

gallag

I drive belfast City day in day out and the amount of southern reg cars doing crazy **** is unreal, but I don't think they are doing it because they are somehow inferior drivers, its just that they are in a strange city and are probably more stressed and trying to not get lost. I would imagine I would **** up a time or two if I had to drive through dublin tomorrow. Just give people with foreign plates a bit of leeway, wee are all capable of bad driving when out of our comfort zone.

CiniO

endacl wrote: »

In fairness, that looked more like a genuine mistake. He/she went as soon as a green light appeared...

Yes, but it was not exactly this green light.

TBH - what might sound like genuine mistake, on the road might make a difference between life and death.
This is just kind of mistakes no one should be making.

endacl

gallag wrote: »

Just give people with foreign plates a bit of leeway, wee are all capable of bad driving when out of our comfort zone.

In an 'anfamiliar satcheeayshun'?

Renegade Mechanic

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Must say I've always been pretty surprised with how modestly the UK reg cars drive here.

UK drivers are, or at least were, far more... systemised drivers than the Irish. My father explained to me how at a junction, the car on the main road let the car pulling out go ahead, then fell in behind it. While the car behind that one, let the car behind the one pulling out, in front of it, and so on, so forth. Basically every second car. It worked. God help anyone who didnt follow that system as they would be blown out of it by a fair few drivers for it. Even God wouldnt help anyone who actually sped up to stop someone pulling out... If London drove like Dublin, the ensuing carnage would probably have levelled the city!

Leonard Hofstadter

I find the English (well, Northerners anyway) to be just as incompetent at driving as we Irish, but even less courteous and less likely to leave people out of junctions, change lanes, etc. This lack of courtesy and unwillingness to accommodate other drivers gets worse as you head further south. It therefore no wonder that people have this tendency to shoot out right in front of someone over there, because if they don't take this course of action, they'll be waiting for ages to cross a junction. Maybe southerners are better at lane discipline, but northerners are at least as bad as the Irish. I don't know where the UK got its reputation for being better at driving than Ireland from to be honest. Although, at least you won't see people driving ridiculously slowly on motorways over there, it's very rare to see someone doing less than at least 70 mph on the motorways; speeds of over 80 mph are certainly not uncommon and seemingly you won't be caught unless you're doing over 80 anyway, so in reality the 70 mph limit is really 80 mph.

They're also no better than the Irish for lane discipline on motorways and dual carriageways - there's no shortage of middle lane hoggers on three lane carriageways, indeed I was on the M56 heading for Manchester and I might as well have been on the N7 heading into Dublin at home, such was the emptiness of the left most lane (the lane everyone is supposed to be in for those that don't know).

Also, the road network is pretty dire, yes the roads are often a lot smoother than what is found in Ireland, but by God do the roads get congested. Whatever about Friday evenings, when people are trying to go somewhere for the weekend, even on Saturday mornings you can be stuck on the M1 or M56, or whatever. The Irish approach with regards to motorway building is far superior, for once in our lives we've actually managed to do some forward planning by building roads that are totally over capacity for the time being.

gctest50

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

....If London drove like Dublin, the ensuing carnage would probably have levelled the city!

who needs white lines n lights

Renegade Mechanic

@ gctest50: Jesus!:eek:

@ captainspeed: That probably makes sense. Thing have changed then.. Last time my father would have driven over there would have been around 20 years ago. And their road network would have been optimally built around the seventies and early eighties iirc though that was before my time.

jimgoose

Dunno about UK plates, but I have learned to be wary of D-reg plates down here in Cork. In particular, I keep one eye on them and give them a wide berth on the Kinsale Road roundabout - they're inclined to suddenly realise "Jaysis, I'm going to the airport, not Glanmire!!" and veer across three lanes.

lau1247

gctest50 wrote: »

who needs white lines n lights

No one speed, no one killed, all cross safely until next junction

keithclancy

Whenever I visit Ireland its a combination of everything

Cars driving erratically
Pedestrians crossing the road regardless of a pedestrian cross being there or a light being green etc.
Cyclists are all over the place and don't follow lights at all or cycle out in front of cars.
Lanes make no sense with lanes disappearing for no good reason and cycle lanes are on the insides of a bus lane (crazy) on top of that there isn't really any advance warning of the lane ahead disappearing.
Nobody seems to know how to merge, with people in the lane blocking people from joining (they feel they are cheating somehow?)
People can't use junctions properly behind the lights when its green waiting to turn right.
Roundabouts seem to be a mystery
People park on Cycle lanes
People park on footpaths meaning people have to walk out on the road.
Parking places aren't planned at all in a lot of cities/towns with marked parking spaces in the middles of driving lanes.
Traffic Light timing seems to be badly setup.

I could go on forever.

Some friends of ours was over this weekend and one of them was saying she didn't know how we drove here as it seemed so busy with trams/buses/cyclists/pedestrians etc .

Even though it looks a lot busier there's a real repeatable road system in place and everyone follows the rules and knows the rules (accounting for human error of course)

I never see any correlation between the reg and the driving tbh, its equally bad across the board caused by a poorly setup road network and the crap public transport system that makes everyone feel the need to have one car / adult.

hi5

They're Irish emigrants back for the holliers, they drive the same as they did before they left.
Can only imagine the havoc they're causing in the UK!

Mrs W

It's the parking that gets me. There's a certain attitude that goes with driving northern cars around here and more often than not when there's cars parked in wheelchair spaces they're northern bmw's and audis with no sign of a wheelchair

ra0044

I am just back from 2 weeks in England visiting friends and have driven 1500 miles over there.

I have to admit that the quality of driving over there is a lot better. Much more curtious and seems more controlled without the need constant lane changing because of parked cars, bus lanes appearing suddenly or lanes disappearing.

Motorway driving was great . Yes you get second lane hoggers but they really get the concept of moving over a lane at junctions so merging traffic can get on the motorway at decent speed unlike overhear where people just can't grasp the concept of allowing merging and think it is OK to drive at 80 kh staring straight ahead.

Have to say really enjoyed driving in UK. Got a couple of honks and thumbs up from 2 Dublin reg cars in Oxford. Good to see.

HurtLocker

I drove from Cork to Dublin and back last week. I was jealous out. Some of the UK reg'd cars were absolutely flying it. I was doing about a steady 130kmh. These UK cars would fly past every now and again travelling at least 150kmh. There immune to our penalty points :mad: I can't wait to drove in the UK. I will absolutely floor it. Or if I could get a UK licence here...

From being on holiday in Kerry last month I've to say K reg'd cars are the ones to be wary of. They are f*ckin useless on roundabouts. I lost count of the amount of times I had to slow down on the roundabout because of one of them cutting me off. Yield means nothing to alot of them.

I find UK reg'd cars grand. They can be slow at times but that's to be expected. I don't know how they manage with all our faded stop lines and road markings and lack of signage.

JAMES VTI S

ant time i see a UK reg its over taking way beyond the speed limit at a dangerous place, just yesterday this prat with a boat on a trailer from the minute i pull out of my cross was driving too close to me so he could get a better view to over take when he did he went slower FFS! (i over took straight away)

is the law able to fine these ***k****s

CiniO

keithclancy wrote: »

Cars driving erratically
Pedestrians crossing the road regardless of a pedestrian cross being there or a light being green etc.
Cyclists are all over the place and don't follow lights at all or cycle out in front of cars.
Lanes make no sense with lanes disappearing for no good reason and cycle lanes are on the insides of a bus lane (crazy) on top of that there isn't really any advance warning of the lane ahead disappearing.
Nobody seems to know how to merge, with people in the lane blocking people from joining (they feel they are cheating somehow?)
People can't use junctions properly behind the lights when its green waiting to turn right.
Roundabouts seem to be a mystery
People park on Cycle lanes
People park on footpaths meaning people have to walk out on the road.
Parking places aren't planned at all in a lot of cities/towns with marked parking spaces in the middles of driving lanes.
Traffic Light timing seems to be badly setup.

I could go on forever.

This

See since I started driving in Ireland the above list was building, and while I wasn't able to word it so nice, that represents my feeling about Irish road traffic
Thanks keithclancy

ofcork

Saw a lovely uk reg C63 amg coupe in midleton today driving fine great sound.

dr.fuzzenstein

keithclancy wrote: »

Whenever I visit Ireland its a combination of everything

Cars driving erratically
Pedestrians crossing the road regardless of a pedestrian cross being there or a light being green etc.
Cyclists are all over the place and don't follow lights at all or cycle out in front of cars.
Lanes make no sense with lanes disappearing for no good reason and cycle lanes are on the insides of a bus lane (crazy) on top of that there isn't really any advance warning of the lane ahead disappearing.
Nobody seems to know how to merge, with people in the lane blocking people from joining (they feel they are cheating somehow?)
People can't use junctions properly behind the lights when its green waiting to turn right.
Roundabouts seem to be a mystery
People park on Cycle lanes
People park on footpaths meaning people have to walk out on the road.
Parking places aren't planned at all in a lot of cities/towns with marked parking spaces in the middles of driving lanes.
Traffic Light timing seems to be badly setup.

I could go on forever.

Some friends of ours was over this weekend and one of them was saying she didn't know how we drove here as it seemed so busy with trams/buses/cyclists/pedestrians etc .

Even though it looks a lot busier there's a real repeatable road system in place and everyone follows the rules and knows the rules (accounting for human error of course)

I never see any correlation between the reg and the driving tbh, its equally bad across the board caused by a poorly setup road network and the crap public transport system that makes everyone feel the need to have one car / adult.

You are absolutely right about every single thing and that's why you won't get any thanks from a single Irish person (who hasn't been abroad anyway)