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

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

I'd agree, and being undertaken a very unpleasant experience. I've a ropey junction on my commute which caused me so many near misses I take an alternative route most days.

Here where the silver car is, lane splits from one into three, two for left and one for right. I wanna head right. Move too early (at the split) and I'll be undertaken. Usually nearly clipped as the motorist realises I'm doing 35-40km/h and there's a line of traffic at the lights they need to get into. Move too late and I have to cross 2 lanes. Road is 60 and very hard to find a decent gap.

There is a ped crossing about 100m back that I'm tempted to hit as I pass, to hold traffic back too but in classic irish road design, it's awfully placed and backs traffic back onto a very busy roundabout, and I'm not sure about the legal (or moral) stance on that idea. Alternative route prob best.

Would you not be better using the cycle lane on the right?

williestroker1 wrote: »

Would you not be better using the cycle lane on the right?

That's one of those lanes that appears out of no where and then disappears shortly after. Makes no sense.

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

From the twitters

https://twitter.com/Peteer/status/991973123191988225

I have seen many, but this is one of the most disgusting ever.

That's horrible

And the usual aul sh1te reply from the lads at DB

https://twitter.com/dublinbusnews/status/991976491427786752

Rechuchote wrote: »

Dublin Bus have this on a text expander shortcut, I think!

Yep and they'll get the canned response of "Driver has been interviewed and we take safety very seriously"

One of the twitter responses, I hope it’s just a tool trolling.

“To be fair to the driver he couldn't have been expected to see the cyclists given that they weren't wearing hi-vis. In any case, thankfully they were wearing helmets so they would have been fine if the bus hit them.”

I wasn't the cyclist, but I was the driver coming the other way this evening having picked the missus' bike up from a shop in the Peaks district (18 Bikes; they're awesome) for some maintenance work, and approaching the outskirts of Sheffield. Nice wide road (and by wide, I mean two tanks side by side overtaking cyclists at 1.5m sort of wide), feck all traffic - just a girl on a road bike, tosser in a car overtaking her, and myself coming the other way on a big wide straight stretch, albeit I had just come onto the stretch of road from a bend. I was met with watching her have to visibly and dramatically swerve back in towards the side of the road as he overtook like an absolute colossal bell-end. It wasn't even like the other driver was in danger of colliding with my car. He was just being a total d1ck as she had taken primary road position to turn off right, across the road not far up (having her arm out to indicate).

I'm just left wondering what was the point. It's not like she'd have delayed him as there was next to no traffic ahead of him.

Saw another crazy one last sunday in the further into the Peaks district; myself and the missus driving back from mountain biking (funnily enough to drop her bike into said same shop from earlier), to encounter a fool committed to overtaking a single cyclist in the middle of a blind 'S' bend in a 50mph single-carriage road, and having to swerve back in nearly wiping said cyclist out whilst trying to avoid a head-on collision with myself having just rounded one end of the blind bend, all whilst having a bike strapped to the top of his big-black SUV-esque not-quite-a-jeep. The irony of a cyclist, driving a car, nearly causing an accident with another cyclist driving a car, whilst trying to do a dumb overtake on another cyclist is not lost on me.

Generally speaking, my experiences to-date of Sheffield have been mostly favourable; so it's a bit disappointing to see two incidents in such close proximity to each other.

Kaisr Sose wrote: »

100%..There is no other meaningful response to what was posted by the “Hi vis and wearing helmets” troll comment.

Sorry if it’s not your thing!

By the way, I have had multiple close passes by Dublin Bus drivers. One last week on Georges St, practically made contact as they passed and then they pulled into a stop just meters ahead. Had I fallen, hi vis, helmet, jock strap, back protector etc would not have prevented me going under the wheel. Nearly every day a Dublin Bus drops across me and other cyclists as we exit the cycle lane onto Westmoreland St. They impose their right of way (which legally they don’t have coming from behind)

A lot of these DB drivers (not all) are pure ass holes. Such is their driving and social skills, they probably would not get a driving job anywhere else.

But you have to tell their company! To which you'll get the answer:

Hi Kaisr, please follow the link to our online webform and we will look into this for you bit.ly/1UQnvcO

Duckjob wrote: »

The internal bus investigation should be irrevelent. In some other european countries, it would be straight to the police, an almost instant conviction of the driver based on clear evidence of dangerous driving, loss of licence and job, examples made, people change driving behaviour for the better, city gets safer to cycle, everybody gets healthier and happier.

So true!

Don't even get me started on how the ones displaying the worst behavour towards poeple on bikes are probably the ones that will be clogging up our health system with heart conditions, cancers, diabetes etc because they didnt give a flying f**k about their own physical health their whole lives. How far is your precious "road tax" going to go towards paying all those costs ? /RANT

I was amazed by how many very fat people were at the meeting in Ranelagh about the Metrolink. It seemed to be an age thing: over-80s were skinny and wiry, under-60s were plump, and increasingly so in many cases down to the 30s. (I'm no sylph myself, by the way.)

It's tragic that the Quietway plan (hated by Ranelagh's motorists) seems to be stymied by the Metrolink - a good cycle route would inevitably get more people in the village riding bicycles to the shops and cafes and maybe even to work, and would do a world of good for their health.