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

Idleater

CramCycle wrote: »

Drove through a light on the N11 today, went amber when crossing. Still cars driving through when I was a further 250m down the road, zero f*cks given.

Vaguely related, we have a "radiation" symbol yellow box markings on the roundabout near me. So it's okay to block the junction in the unmarked bits.
: table_flip:

CramCycle

Idleater wrote: »

Vaguely related, we have a "radiation" symbol yellow box markings on the roundabout near me. So it's okay to block the junction in the unmarked bits.
: table_flip:

I always wonder how much of it is people being ass hats and how much is stupidity. For example, I come past a T Junction (a right turn on my road) which is traffic controlled. Every day, people get the green light and then stop on the red that relates to the straight through traffic. It is amazing that anyone even thinks it relates to them but they stop, block traffic and ignore the hullabaloo. I mean, I still laugh at the morons but I see it daily and don't pass at the same time every day. Which to me suggests it happens alot. Which implies, it's not the same morons. Occasionally I even see pedestrians trying to shout over and explain, and it's met with gawping.

plodder

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Maybe not quite a near miss...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U5jB6wFs_0

Dump truck and towing a heavy load, probably going too fast to stop anyway. That's standard behavior for these cowboys. Just be thankful you didn't meet him earlier on that road.

paddydriver

plodder wrote: »

Dump truck and towing a heavy load, probably going too fast to stop anyway. That's standard behavior for these cowboys. Just be thankful you didn't meet him earlier on that road.

This is just crazy stuff to see something that big ploughing on thru.. see this now so often, particularly at junction outside our place on Drummartin Link road crossing the Upr Kilmacud Rd.. coming down from Sandyford and going too fast to stop; I start to think ah sure maybe its not safe for them to stop so suddenly but then I think back how it was a few years back when Red light meant stop! It is just gone crazy now... its a race to the bottom now as driving has just got so aggressive and its every man and women driver for themselves without giving a toss for consequences to anyone around them.

AndrewJRenko

paddydriver wrote: »

This is just crazy stuff to see something that big ploughing on thru.. see this now so often, particularly at junction outside our place on Drummartin Link road crossing the Upr Kilmacud Rd.. coming down from Sandyford and going too fast to stop; I start to think ah sure maybe its not safe for them to stop so suddenly but then I think back how it was a few years back when Red light meant stop! It is just gone crazy now... its a race to the bottom now as driving has just got so aggressive and its every man and women driver for themselves without giving a toss for consequences to anyone around them.

And if you ask them about it afterwards, they'll tell you that 'they were caught by the red' as if the green light going amber/red came as a total surprise to them - never seen that before.

magicbastarder

my favourite sopt again the other morning; waiting at the lights on east wall road, on the junction with itself; i.e. if i'd gone left i'd be heading for the port tunnel, but i was heading right to pass the point depot. anyway, the lights for crossing traffic go red, i clip in, start to move, and an aircoach went through the red about two seconds late. and a smaller coach obviously decided 'well, if he did it, so can i', and went through a second or two after the aircoach. maybe he was sucked along by the vortex created by the larger vehicle.

sy_flembeck

magicbastarder wrote: »

my favourite sopt again the other morning; waiting at the lights on east wall road, on the junction with itself; i.e. if i'd gone left i'd be heading for the port tunnel, but i was heading right to pass the point depot. anyway, the lights for crossing traffic go red, i clip in, start to move, and an aircoach went through the red about two seconds late. and a smaller coach obviously decided 'well, if he did it, so can i', and went through a second or two after the aircoach. maybe he was sucked along by the vortex created by the larger vehicle.

I was in Manchester a couple of weeks ago and walking the short walk from Piccadilly Station to The Arndale Centre. Stopped at a set of pedestrian lights with about 20 others and plenty of traffic going through. Lights change for cars and immediately all the other pedestrians started to walk. Paddy here was the only person left standing there like an eejit. Never occurred to me that they actually stop at red lights in the UK so I didn't have to wait for 5 or 6 cars to go through like at home. It's shameful and embarassing really

What Username Guidelines

First morning back on the bike today in 2.5 weeks after being away for work. Noticed a huge shift in daylight, i.e. there was none. Dublin traffic did not disappoint, plenty of close passes, silly moves in the wet, a garda on a motorbike milling down the cycle track on the canal, and the icing on the cake, getting buzzed and beeped by a white van man in the bus lane between templeogue and terenure. I missed it all terribly while away :rolleyes:

Zulu

CramCycle wrote: »

I always wonder how much of it is people being ass hats and how much is stupidity. For example, I come past a T Junction (a right turn on my road) which is traffic controlled. Every day, people get the green light and then stop on the red that relates to the straight through traffic....

This. I'm noticing this more and more. ?!?

I see that a bit near us, they'll get a green and take the right and then drop anchor when they see red as they get around. Had a few wave me across the road while I was waiting to cross and I had to point to the red man and wave them on :rolleyes:

magicbastarder

the staggered junction of holles street/merrion square east is chronic for people misreading lights, i've found.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3396876,-6.2464408,20z

tnegun

Had a guy close the gap and pull in to the kerb just as I got to him this am, just got on the brakes in time went to overtake him on this outside and he sped up, got ahead of him full expecting him to be on his phone, but no just a prick who doesn't like bikes getting ahead in traffic. In fairness I've had more people make space than close it and usually closing it is due to being inattentive and on their phone in traffic.

On the misreading lights the worst junction has got to be the long mile and naas road coming from the nangor rd side. Almost every few minutes someone sees the next set go green and break a red light.

De Bhál

sy_flembeck wrote: »

I was in Manchester a couple of weeks ago and walking the short walk from Piccadilly Station to The Arndale Centre. Stopped at a set of pedestrian lights with about 20 others and plenty of traffic going through. Lights change for cars and immediately all the other pedestrians started to walk. Paddy here was the only person left standing there like an eejit. Never occurred to me that they actually stop at red lights in the UK so I didn't have to wait for 5 or 6 cars to go through like at home. It's shameful and embarassing really

Similar happened to me in Copenhagen in 2005 (almost 15yrs ago...ouch)
I was waiting to cross a wide street in the city center with about 20 or so others at a pedestrian crossing.
I saw a good gap in the traffic so started strolling across (as you do in Dublin), got about 2m out and realised no-one else was also crossing, felt real fear as i assumed a bus or something I hadn't seen was about to cream me out of it, because I could think of no other reason the rest wouldn't cross. Nope no bus coming just everyone else actually obeying the rules. Felt bad and kept going with my head down

Hrududu

Only that people seem to now wait a few seconds after the lights change there would have been a couple of serious collisions this morning.

At 2 different junctions today we had cars running red lights so late that the pedestrian/cycle lights had already gone green. At both junctions the cars went through at enough speed that if someone had stepped out they’d have been creamed.

McGrath5

After cycling into work everyday last week on my hybrid, my road bike was looking a little bit neglected, so yesterday morning I decided to head out for decent spin too Howth.

Going through town heading north on the R137, a lovely taxi man in a Prius decided to invade the cycle lane, getting far too close to me for comfort. I knocked on his window, he looked back at me, sped off and I thought that was the end of it, how wrong was I.

A few hundred meters up the road, waiting at the lights to head onto Winetavern street, he leaned out and asked why I knocked on his window. I told him he was far too close to me and he was driving in the cycling lane. He then aggressively yelled at me that I was lucky "I have a fare, very lucky I have a fare", his 2 passengers were sitting in the back looking very perplexed as to what was going on. Anyway the lights turned green and I made my way on, not knowing what type of potential psychopath I could be dealing with.

So much for a stress free Sunday morning spin.

Utter Consternation

McGrath5 wrote: »

After cycling into work everyday last week on my hybrid, my road bike was looking a little bit neglected, so yesterday morning I decided to head out for decent spin too Howth.

Going through town heading north on the R137, a lovely taxi man in a Prius decided to invade the cycle lane, getting far too close to me for comfort. I knocked on his window, he looked back at me, sped off and I thought that was the end of it, how wrong was I.

A few hundred meters up the road, waiting at the lights to head onto Winetavern street, he leaned out and asked why I knocked on his window. I told him he was far too close to me and he was driving in the cycling lane. He then aggressively yelled at me that I was lucky "I have a fare, very lucky I have a fare", his 2 passengers were sitting in the back looking very perplexed as to what was going on. Anyway the lights turned green and I made my way on, not knowing what type of potential psychopath I could be dealing with.

So much for a stress free Sunday morning spin.

Did you get his taxi number? You can report him for abusing you i think. Particularly in front of a fare.

https://www.transportforireland.ie/taxi/taxi-compliments-complaints

McGrath5

Utter Consternation wrote: »

Did you get his taxi number? You can report him for abusing you i think. Particularly in front of a fare.

https://www.transportforireland.ie/taxi/taxi-compliments-complaints

I didn't, by the stage he started yelling at me I just wanted to get the hell out of there.

Ray Palmer

Utter Consternation wrote: »

Did you get his taxi number? You can report him for abusing you i think. Particularly in front of a fare.

https://www.transportforireland.ie/taxi/taxi-compliments-complaints

It specifically mentions they don't want complaints about driving offenses. So it seems pretty useless for that purpose

ED E

Utter Consternation wrote: »

Did you get his taxi number? You can report him for abusing you i think. Particularly in front of a fare.

https://www.transportforireland.ie/taxi/taxi-compliments-complaints

Ray Palmer wrote: »

It specifically mentions they don't want complaints about driving offenses. So it seems pretty useless for that purpose

Correct. Only clientele or those refused passage incorrectly can use the TFI form. Everything else is traffic watch/gardai in Santry if you wanna go straight to the carriage office.

tnegun

This guy delibrately blocked me this am, he had only past me 20 secs earlier so was fully aware what he was doing, excuse the language.

Breezer

tnegun wrote: »

This guy delibrately blocked me this am, he had only past me 20 secs earlier so was fully aware what he was doing, excuse the language.

Thankfully I don’t get much of that, but I really don’t understand the logic. Presumably these are the same people who would go mental at you for being “in the middle of the road,” so which is it?

DaveyDave

For some reason motorists gravitate towards cyclists. Going up the bus lane towards Blanch Garda station today, as I was shoulder checking to move to the right a Golf came partially into the bus lane, I hit the brakes as I thought they were going left and the bus lane must yield but they went on straight...

Chiparus

tnegun wrote: »

This guy delibrately blocked me this am, he had only past me 20 secs earlier so was fully aware what he was doing, excuse the language.

I doubt he did it deliberately , probably let go of the stearing wheel to text someone. Happened to me a few times.

AndrewJRenko

Ray Palmer wrote: »

It specifically mentions they don't want complaints about driving offenses. So it seems pretty useless for that purpose

You can make a carefully phrased complaint about his behaviour when he has a fare in the car, which they will accept and follow up. Make sure you specifically exclude any traffic offence - you're not complaining about him breaking the law, you're complaining about the threatening behaviour, in this case.

queldy

The time tolerance drivers are allowing themselves after lights turn red is getting ridiculously high.
I started at green three times today, at three different lights, and three times I had to stop for cars coming at speed with red light turned on at least few seconds earlier.
I assume this crazy behaviour will not be tolerated anymore in this city, or will it?
What does a citizen of dublin need to do at this stage to make this stop? It is so clearly ridiculous.

magicbastarder

similar for me this morning, had to stop and wait at a green while people coming from leopardstown road ran the red to swing down the N11 towards the bray direction.

Pinch Flat

Castleknock at Myo's pub this morning. Three motorists (2 cars and a van) edged through the red, across a junction that was now a green man. No body beeped (this seems to be a thing now when cyclists do it), nobody cared. Almost acceptable at this stage "Sure the traffic is mental, what else are you meant to do".

Utter Consternation

queldy wrote: »

The time tolerance drivers are allowing themselves after lights turn red is getting ridiculously high.
I started at green three times today, at three different lights, and three times I had to stop for cars coming at speed with red light turned on at least few seconds earlier.
I assume this crazy behaviour will not be tolerated anymore in this city, or will it?
What does a citizen of dublin need to do at this stage to make this stop? It is so clearly ridiculous.

Absolutely, i saw an SUV packed full of kids break a read in Kimmage this morning and they barely got out ahead of the advancing traffic on green.

Crazy stuff.

average_runner

tnegun wrote: »

This guy delibrately blocked me this am, he had only past me 20 secs earlier so was fully aware what he was doing, excuse the language.

I don't think he blocked you, its a bend and lights from the opposite way, might of caused him to move in more.

Also when you over took him, he wasn't that far in compare to the other cars.

average_runner

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Castleknock at Myo's pub this morning. Three motorists (2 cars and a van) edged through the red, across a junction that was now a green man. No body beeped (this seems to be a thing now when cyclists do it), nobody cared. Almost acceptable at this stage "Sure the traffic is mental, what else are you meant to do".

Its gone really bad, when cyclists started to go through the lights and preached its ok to do when safe, some motorists are going to do the same thing.

We are a very sad little country with no respect for any of the rules.