Near misses - mod warning 22/04 - see OP/post 822

Pinch Flat

victor17 wrote: »

I mustn't be lucky this week, as another incident at the same spot this morning. https://ibb.co/hMSMcZH This time a GoBus driver leaned on the horn while tailgating me. I ignored the first beep but when I finally looked back, the driver was gesticulating frantically at the cycle lane running parallel to the road.

It's such a poorly-designed cycle lane. I would actually feel safer if it didn't exist at all.

Good to see the bike lane been put to use by the golf buggy thingy. Very handy.

work

Never heard of GoBus. I do find bus drivers coming from the country are often terrible toward cyclists. Is it because they are used to moving more freely in the country and do not readjust to the city?
It is really scary what he did, if filmed consider reporting etc etc...

gavinoontheweb

victor17 wrote: »

I mustn't be lucky this week, as another incident at the same spot this morning. https://ibb.co/hMSMcZH This time a GoBus driver leaned on the horn while tailgating me. I ignored the first beep but when I finally looked back, the driver was gesticulating frantically at the cycle lane running parallel to the road.

It's such a poorly-designed cycle lane. I would actually feel safer if it didn't exist at all.

My sentiments are the same with a lot of new off-road cycle lanes that run parallel to shared bus/taxi/cycle lanes. Frequently these lanes are not suitable for commuters due to them being blocked, pedestrians spilling onto them and having to frequently give way to motorists coming from side roads.


To top it all off taxis/buses will usually give a punishment pass if they spot the off road lane.

Steoller

work wrote: »

Never heard of GoBus. I do find bus drivers coming from the country are often terrible toward cyclists. Is it because they are used to moving more freely in the country and do not readjust to the city?
It is really scary what he did, if filmed consider reporting etc etc...

I suppose when you get to the city after travelling there on the motorway, you don't switch back to urban speeds that readily.

AndrewJRenko

victor17 wrote: »

I mustn't be lucky this week, as another incident at the same spot this morning. https://ibb.co/hMSMcZH This time a GoBus driver leaned on the horn while tailgating me. I ignored the first beep but when I finally looked back, the driver was gesticulating frantically at the cycle lane running parallel to the road.

It's such a poorly-designed cycle lane. I would actually feel safer if it didn't exist at all.

Sometimes when drivers beep from behind, I find that I have to slow and stop, and turn round to make sure I fully understand what they are trying to communicate. It can sometimes take quite a while to understand what they are saying through the windscreen, with all the traffic noise.

magicbastarder wrote: »

you clearly have a lot of free time, and some crazy ideas. you're going to spot a red mini and stalk it?
like some sheriff in the dukes of hazzard, laying in wait in a layby for it to pass so you can roar out behind it to film it?
do you actually realise what you're suggesting?

Yes, what I'm suggesting is that it would be great for all users of that road if that driver experiences some kind of intervention to get them to change their driving style. I'd bet a fiver that if you spent half an hour there over three or four mornings, you'd spot the same driver and car as a first step on that road.

fat bloke

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Yes, what I'm suggesting is that it would be great for all users of that road if that driver experiences some kind of intervention to get them to change their driving style. I'd bet a fiver that if you spent half an hour there over three or four mornings, you'd spot the same driver and car as a first step on that road.

I'd say there's a very high probability of coming across the same lad in the same car in the same place at the same time, and in all likelihood driving in the same manner . - Always amuses/intrigues me how habitual commuting can be and how aligned one's own commute is to others. Walking to school with the kids, it tickled me how often the same guy on a Ducati would drone under the M50 pedestrian bridge as we traversed it. A bike coming from God knows where, travelling at 100kph routinely coinciding with our 20 second bridge crossing. The slightest delay to tie a shoe-lace and we'd miss each other entirely.

Idleater

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Yes, what I'm suggesting is that it would be great for all users of that road if that driver experiences some kind of intervention to get them to change their driving style. I'd bet a fiver that if you spent half an hour there over three or four mornings, you'd spot the same driver and car as a first step on that road.

If it's any use, I walked home through Lucan village that evening and three red mini's went the other way. I didn't remember from the video the colour of the stripes or roof, but the lady driving 2 of them was messing with her phone. The third was parked at an angle causing annoyance to other traffic.
Good luck narrowing down the search conclusively.

AndrewJRenko

Idleater wrote: »

If it's any use, I walked home through Lucan village that evening and three red mini's went the other way. I didn't remember from the video the colour of the stripes or roof, but the lady driving 2 of them was messing with her phone. The third was parked at an angle causing annoyance to other traffic.
Good luck narrowing down the search conclusively.

It's not my video or my search, but if it was my video, I'd find a way to progress the matter.

tuxy

Did you get the reg from any of the three? We could edit it into the video before report it to the Garda. Or would vigilante justice be a better approach?

buffalo

Idleater wrote: »

If it's any use, I walked home through Lucan village that evening and three red mini's went the other way. I didn't remember from the video the colour of the stripes or roof, but the lady driving 2 of them was messing with her phone. The third was parked at an angle causing annoyance to other traffic.
Good luck narrowing down the search conclusively.

I caught up with a red mini later on the same commute as the original incident, but given I didn't see the driver in the first place or any of the reg, it'd be madness to take any kind of action.

Also, I'm very impressed that there was a lady driving 2 minis! I'd pay money to see that! :pac:

Eamonnator

buffalo wrote: »

I caught up with a red mini later on the same commute as the original incident, but given I didn't see the driver in the first place or any of the reg, it'd be madness to take any kind of action.

Also, I'm very impressed that there was a lady driving 2 minis! I'd pay money to see that! :pac:

I had visions of something like this, but with Minis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OacuWBh9Z0

Seth Brundle

Eamonnator wrote: »

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I had visions of something like this, but with Minis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OacuWBh9Z0

I figured that was a video of a woman riding two things alright but wasn't sure if it would be NSFW!

buffalo

Eamonnator wrote: »

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I had visions of something like this, but with Minis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OacuWBh9Z0

Or

Idleater

buffalo wrote: »

Also, I'm very impressed that there was a lady driving 2 minis! I'd pay money to see that! :pac:

I know it's stereotypical to place a blond on the phone in a mini, but you know, she just didn't do herself justice. I mean she passed 3 hairdressers doing those laps :-)

DaveyDave

fat bloke wrote: »

I'd say there's a very high probability of coming across the same lad in the same car in the same place at the same time, and in all likelihood driving in the same manner . - Always amuses/intrigues me how habitual commuting can be and how aligned one's own commute is to others. Walking to school with the kids, it tickled me how often the same guy on a Ducati would drone under the M50 pedestrian bridge as we traversed it. A bike coming from God knows where, travelling at 100kph routinely coinciding with our 20 second bridge crossing. The slightest delay to tie a shoe-lace and we'd miss each other entirely.

Indeed. I have several dash cam clips of a white Tiquan coming into Lucan who drives the same route as I do into Clonee. He's always in the bus lane flying along. Once he gets into Lucan village he tailgates everyone the whole way. One morning a council bin truck was in the bus lane on the other side of the junction. As our light went green the VW had to swerve from the bus lane to avoid hitting the man walking to the driver side, barely squeezing into the gap with the car in front of me. If the car in front wasn't so slow to take off he would have smashed into one of us.

If you see another red Mini driving aggressively around Lucan then you know who it is...

John_Rambo

DaveyDave wrote: »

Indeed. I have several dash cam clips of a white Tiquan coming into Lucan who drives the same route as I do into Clonee. He's always in the bus lane flying along. Once he gets into Lucan village he tailgates everyone the whole way. One morning a council bin truck was in the bus lane on the other side of the junction. As our light went green the VW had to swerve from the bus lane to avoid hitting the man walking to the driver side, barely squeezing into the gap with the car in front of me. If the car in front wasn't so slow to take off he would have smashed into one of us.

If you see another red Mini driving aggressively around Lucan then you know who it is...

Be careful. I was merging in to a left turn lane where the bus lane ends in Clontaaaarf (Joe Duffy!) in my car when I was blown out of it by a car flaking up the bus lane, didn't realise he was going that fast. I waved an apology (luckily enough).... cop in uniform!!

Rechuchote

Maybe it's fashion. Fashion happens in transport just like in everything else; there's a road near mine where there are something like 5 Bikeshels, and they've now started branching out into cargo bikes.

Chiparus

John_Rambo wrote: »

Be careful. I was merging in to a left turn lane where the bus lane ends in Clontaaaarf (Joe Duffy!) in my car when I was blown out of it by a car flaking up the bus lane, didn't realise he was going that fast. I waved an apology (luckily enough).... cop in uniform!!

I bet you the Tiquan is driven by the same.

Duckjob

John_Rambo wrote: »

Be careful. I was merging in to a left turn lane where the bus lane ends in Clontaaaarf (Joe Duffy!) in my car when I was blown out of it by a car flaking up the bus lane, didn't realise he was going that fast. I waved an apology (luckily enough).... cop in uniform!!

Must say - there's lots of things I'll readily hold my hand up and apologise for on the road. Moving into a bus lane in a controlled way in a busy urban environment and getting blasted at by someone coming from way back down the road doing stupid speeds isn't one of them.

Veloce

I've been off injured the past 2 weeks due to a herniated disc in my lower back. My physio said I could start back this week and I was looking forward to it. So off I went off and planned to do an hours easy ride to the Phoenix Park and back.

Within 15 mins - I had one black Passat veer into me nearly cutting me (guy was texting on his phone). Second incident a driver of a clapped out Yaris exited out of a petrol station forcing me to slam on (he pulled out into a row of cars stopped at set of traffic lights so it was ridiculous why he couldn't wait). Not a single up to date disc on the window and he tells me to f*** off.

The the car behind the Yaris holds the horn down to throughout the entire interaction with the Yaris driver.

At that stage - I just turned around and went home.

I think I actually give up. FFS.

AndrewJRenko

Veloce wrote: »

I've been off injured the past 2 weeks due to a herniated disc in my lower back. My physio said I could start back this week and I was looking forward to it. So off I went off and planned to do an hours easy ride to the Phoenix Park and back.

Within 15 mins - I had one black Passat veer into me nearly cutting me (guy was texting on his phone). Second incident a driver of a clapped out Yaris exited out of a petrol station forcing me to slam on (he pulled out into a row of cars stopped at set of traffic lights so it was ridiculous why he couldn't wait). Not a single up to date disc on the window and he tells me to f*** off.

The the car behind the Yaris holds the horn down to throughout the entire interaction with the Yaris driver.

At that stage - I just turned around and went home.

I think I actually give up. FFS.

Nil carborundum illegitimi

The more people cycle, the safer cycling gets. Be part of the solution.

Skrynesaver

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

Macken St. Junction with Pearse St., heading north pull up at the lights and advise the cyclist at the kerb that he could be trapped by left turning traffic as they get the filter 1st. He joins me in the advance box left turning traffic filters through sure enough, light to go through the junction turns green 3 cyclists take off and half way across the junction some charmer in a Transit connect goes straight from the left only lane nearly taking out the 3 of us.

That junction needs serious attention before some self-regarding, impatient half-wit kills someone, "'cos he was turning right I HAD to use the left only lane..."

Chiparus

Actually a lot closer than in the video, felt like 30 cm off my right shoulder. Sorry for the expletive.

Seth Brundle

Chiparus wrote: »

Actually a lot closer than in the video, felt like 30 cm off my right shoulder. Sorry for the expletive.

Has the driver even crossed the white line?

Duckjob

Chiparus wrote: »

Actually a lot closer than in the video, felt like 30 cm off my right shoulder. Sorry for the expletive.

You were hugging the edge far too much. I'd be slap bang in the middle of the lane in a place like that.

blackwhite

Chiparus wrote: »

Actually a lot closer than in the video, felt like 30 cm off my right shoulder. Sorry for the expletive.

I'd be giving Musgraves a call about their driver.


https://www.musgravegroup.com/contact/

Utter Consternation

This is an absolute everyday occurence at these bloody lights.

average_runner

blackwhite wrote: »

I'd be giving Musgraves a call about their driver.


https://www.musgravegroup.com/contact/

According to the date on the video, it happened 4 years ago!!!

Chiparus

average_runner wrote: »

According to the date on the video, it happened 4 years ago!!!

Very balmy January that year.

Chiparus

Duckjob wrote: »

You were hugging the edge far too much. I'd be slap bang in the middle of the lane in a place like that.

The problem with that is the out of control guy coming from behind, this video is from the same bend a couple of years ago