Standard of driving on M1 is getting worse ..... anyone else notice it?

Commotion Ocean

Up util March of this year, I always travelled northbound on the M1 in the morning and sountbound in the evening on the way home. So I was protected from the general idiocy of Irish motoring.

However, from March until now, I have been driving southbound in the morning and take the sliproad for the R139 coming off the M1.

I start work at 8 am. Up until a few weeks ago, traffic flew along and everything went smoothly.

Examples of tomfoolery I notice lately are:

• Joining the slip at 60 km/h
• Straight into the middle lane or overtaking lane and sitting there dawdling along.
• Getting in lane too early for R139 slip or for the Northbound M1 where the inside lane becomes the Donabate slip (this is terrible driving).
• Driving in the outside lane until the reach the M50 slip and fly across three lanes to get to it

The aforementioned shennanigans are apparent at all parts of the motorway but tend to become more pronounced when approaching the airport sliproad and remain until I leave for the R139.

It's only lately I've noticed it, and school children being brounght to school can't be to blame, because they don't start until 9AM.

If mod wants to slip this into the M50 megathrad feel free.

Mister Jingles

Dont travel on it too often but when i do the biggest annoyance i do come across are trucks overtaking and taking forever to do it.

Steve

Seriously?

How are people expected to stay current on facebook and twitter *and* apply makeup *and* read the news when there are idiots like you expecting them to drive properly...

tsk.

What has become of the world. :rolleyes:

Dravokivich

To be honest, I don't expect these issues to be unique to one stretch of road (M50 V M1 V M7/M9 merge). They happen all over the place. You just see it happening more on heavily used roads.

For example I see people every week doing turnabouts at traffic light junctions around Clondalkin simply because they've got a red light right in front of them.

dfeo wrote: »

It's only lately I've noticed it, and school children being brounght to school can't be to blame, because they don't start until 9AM.

When the parents are also likely to be due in work. So they've to be brought somewhere beforehand.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

1000 EUR fine for "driving" in the middle lane. That'll sort a lot of the idiots.

Isambard

it's the net result of decades of Government indifference to driver training and driving unaccompanied etc. The attitude many Irish drivers have grown up with, is "sure, anything will do".

In other Countries , such as the UK, the mindset is entirely different , with proper driving standards set out from the beginning.

Despite much higher traffic levels, driving on a UK motorway is a much more pleasant experience.