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

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  • #7652
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    Took primary position in bus lane this morning, or at least thought I did, along the north quays between four courts and capel street. A bus was stopped a good bit ahead, so I moved *slightly* right to prepare to overtake. Still very much in the lane. Bus began to move off so I didn't signal and went to move back to centre when I realised the car that had been tailgating, was taking this opportunity to undertake me, dreadfully close. Threw his hands up in the air as if to say "what am I supposed to do?"

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  • #7653
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,908 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    Took primary position in bus lane this morning, or at least thought I did, along the north quays between four courts and capel street. A bus was stopped a good bit ahead, so I moved *slightly* right to prepare to overtake. Still very much in the lane. Bus began to move off so I didn't signal and went to move back to centre when I realised the car that had been tailgating, was taking this opportunity to undertake me, dreadfully close. Threw his hands up in the air as if to say "what am I supposed to do?"

    https://streamable.com/523rr
    I would report him.
    His mirror was very close to you and effectively left you with no room were you to have to suddenly swerve.
    He is also illegally driving in a bus lane and passing on the left. Plenty there for the gardai to choose from!

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  • #7654
    Duckjob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    Threw his hands up in the air as if to say "what am I supposed to do?"

    I love those sort of reactions - its like: "What am I supposed to do, Take responsibility and be a safe and competent driver ?"

    No, its: - WAH WAH, but CYCLISTS WAH WAH middle of of teh road WAH WAH road tax WAH WAH red lights

    Stunningly ignorant to their own duty of care on the road, and to the meaning of the pink slip of card in their pockets.


  • #7655
    Chiparus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Chiparus


    Could it have been a guard?


  • #7656
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,770 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Duckjob wrote: »
    I love those sort of reactions - its like: "What am I supposed to do.

    I got this verbatim from the young lady who cut me up on Eden Quay to make her left turn at Liberty Hall. I caught up at the lights, as usual, and politely asked why she had to cut me up. When she asked 'what am I supposed to do' and I answered that 'well, you could just wait behind, and we'd both still be here at the same time', I could visibly see the cogs working in her brain as she realised that she could indeed have waiting behind and she would be no worse off. Maybe next time....


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  • #7657
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,908 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Chiparus wrote: »
    Could it have been a guard?
    I'm fairly sure that gardai are not allowed to drive in a manner that endangers vulnerable road users!


  • #7658
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    I'm fairly sure that gardai are not allowed to drive in a manner that endangers vulnerable road users!

    Wasn't there a video from along the quays from a year or so ago of one tailgating a cyclist in his own car in the bus lane when the cyclist had a go at him pointed to his badge? I'll see if i can dig it out.


  • #7659
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Chiparus wrote: »
    Could it have been a guard?

    Could it have been a farm labourer?


  • #7660
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,908 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Wasn't there a video from along the quays from a year or so ago of one tailgating a cyclist in his own car in the bus lane when the cyclist had a go at him pointed to his badge? I'll see if i can dig it out.
    I had a garda flash a badge on me when I challenged him for being a prick but as there was no video, it couldn't go any further.
    With a video, it should stand, I'd have thought.


  • #7661
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Wasn't there a video from along the quays from a year or so ago of one tailgating a cyclist in his own car in the bus lane when the cyclist had a go at him pointed to his badge? I'll see if i can dig it out.

    I remember that, think there was some outrage at the time and he might have been reprimanded but not much ever came of it.


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  • #7662
    Chiparus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Chiparus


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    I'm fairly sure that gardai are not allowed to drive in a manner that endangers vulnerable road users!

    Remember a garda pulled in a small car for driving in the bus lane in the quays a few years ago, driver showed Id and was waved on.


  • #7663
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,387 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Wasn't there a video from along the quays from a year or so ago of one tailgating a cyclist in his own car in the bus lane when the cyclist had a go at him pointed to his badge? I'll see if i can dig it out.
    Looks like the video has been removed: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99679281


  • #7664
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Detective flashed his badge for parking in a clearway/cyclelane in D2 a few years back. He was getting coffee in Centra.


  • #7665
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Had a near miss with a pedestrian, which was strange as she approached a set of traffic lights, looked right (i presume she saw me coming) and then proceeded to walk across the road. Give her a little ring ring to hurry her out of my way.

    Quite funny to use the bell for someone that you'd think would have seen me, but didnt.


  • #7666
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,908 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Had a near miss with a pedestrian, which was strange as she approached a set of traffic lights, looked right (i presume she saw me coming) and then proceeded to walk across the road. Give her a little ring ring to hurry her out of my way.

    Quite funny to use the bell for someone that you'd think would have seen me, but didnt.
    Breakdancing gorilla!


  • #7667
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,770 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    ED E wrote: »
    Detective flashed his badge for parking in a clearway/cyclelane in D2 a few years back. He was getting coffee in Centra.

    I'm sure he was buying supplies for the prisoners being held in the cells at the station. That's the standard excuse response.


  • #7668
    sy_flembeck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 916 ✭✭✭sy_flembeck


      AndrewJRenko wrote: »
      I'm sure he was buying supplies for the prisoners being held in the cells at the station. That's the standard excuse response.

      Sorry to disappoint but that is indeed generally the case


    • #7669
      Breezer
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Breezer


      Seth Brundle wrote: »
      I had a garda flash a badge on me when I challenged him for being a prick but as there was no video, it couldn't go any further.
      With a video, it should stand, I'd have thought.

      I'd one of these Garda incidents as a pedestrian earlier, I posted it in Commuting and Transport.
      Breezer wrote: »
      Slightly off topic, but just had an interesting one. I'm on foot crossing a side road on Dublin, at an unsignalised T junction. A guy in a car comes along as I'm half way across the road and turns across my path. He's going slowly enough and is obviously going to yield to me, but he gets close enough before he stops and throws his hands up in the air in a "WTF?" gesture. So I stop and have a little chat with him about his duty to yield to pedestrians already crossing.

      He responds by firing up his undercover siren. I tell him I don't care if he's a guard, he's still wrong. There's a bit of back and forth and him acting the hard man telling me he hopes to see me on a coroner's desk some day.

      If I'd had more time I might have suggested we discuss it with his superintendent but I didn't want the eejit taking me up on it for the sake of his ego, since I actually did have somewhere to be, so we agreed to disagree.

      Wonderful attitude from Ireland's finest though.


    • #7670
      AndrewJRenko
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,770 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


      sy_flembeck wrote: »

        Sorry to disappoint but that is indeed generally the case

        Really? Based on what?

        And even if it is the case, do you think it's good practice? Do you think it could generally be avoided by finding an outlet with legal parking, such as the many petrol station shops around the place?


      • #7671
        Diemos
        Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭Diemos


        Mc Love wrote: »
        Had a near miss with a pedestrian, which was strange as she approached a set of traffic lights, looked right (i presume she saw me coming) and then proceeded to walk across the road. Give her a little ring ring to hurry her out of my way.

        Quite funny to use the bell for someone that you'd think would have seen me, but didnt.

        I've had that with pedestrians and drivers, they look for vehicles, they see straight through you cos they are not looking for cyclists.

        I scared the sh!t out of a lady in an A3 once, she pull out on my into stopped traffic, there was nothing beside or behind me.
        Its day time but I have my lights on and i'm wearing a high vis coat and a white helmet.
        I knocked on her window and she jumped a mile.
        I was polite and asked if she had seen me, she said no, I believed her.

        People just don't look for bikes.
        It's scary how many people drive on auto pilot.


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      • #7672
        micar
        Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭micar


        Just back from 2 hour spin from Drogheda to Annagassin and back..just over 60km.

        Heading back 4km from Drogheda on the Termonfeckin road, a man in a small white van decided to overtake me at same time a car was coming in the opposite direction giving me about 3 inches of space. Unbelievable. Let out a big roar at him. What a fu(c)king pr1ck.


      • #7673
        [Deleted User]
        Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


        ^ The road is reasonably straight around there isn't it ? So he's likely have seen oncoming traffic and simply just couldn't be arsed waiting to pass you. Muppet.


      • #7674
        micar
        Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭micar


        Deleted User wrote: »
        ^ The road is reasonably straight around there isn't it ? So he's likely have seen oncoming traffic and simply just couldn't be arsed waiting to pass you. Muppet.

        Totally.....it couldn't be more straighter.


      • #7675
        tuxy
        Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


        The only safe option on roads like that is to take a position where they must cross into the other lane to overtake.


      • #7676
        p15574
        Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 790 ✭✭✭p15574


        tuxy wrote: »
        The only safe option on roads like that is to take a position where they must cross into the other lane to overtake.

        With people like this in charge of providing a safer cycling infrastructure (or not providing), the future doesn’t look bright...unless #IBikeIVote takes off.


      • #7677
        Rechuchote
        Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Rechuchote


        He's not standing for re-election.


      • #7678
        Fighting Tao
        Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


        He deleted some of his tweets. What a time to tweet something like that, with the tragedy in Ballinasloe.


      • #7679
        Pinch Flat
        Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


        Some of his tweets were very anti cyclist. What a clown.


      • #7680
        Seth Brundle
        Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,908 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


        Fighting Tao wrote: »
        He deleted some of his tweets. What a time to tweet something like that, with the tragedy in Ballinasloe.

        This isn't the first time that he's shown his ignorance towards cyclists. However by deleting some tweets is he acknowledging that his tweets criticising vulnerable road users were completely inappropriate?


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      • #7681
        Dr_Colossus
        Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Dr_Colossus


        On the commute home this evening on the south quays at about 17:40 in the teaming rain a taxi driver from the outside lane made a quick and aggressive steer toward the footpath on the section before the James Joyce bridge. He took out the cyclist that was 20m in front of me hitting him up onto the footpath and only for his reaction and cycle craft he'd be under the car.

        Despite the heavy rain, car had no lights and no indicator was used changing lanes or mounting the kerb. Given the sudden side sweep I thought there might be history between them and the taxi driver was deliberately trying to kill/injure the cyclist so I pulled up behind waiting to see the outcome. It was all for a fare at the side of the road.

        Cyclist was pretty calm although suspect in shock and in fairness to the driver he handled the bad situation as well as he could thereafter. Got out and apologised to the cyclist and spoke to him at length before then apologising to his fare and then me. Cyclist didn't wait around thereafter so I caught up with him further on to see if he was alright and to say I had witnessed the incident and gave him the reg if he wanted to report it.

        From memory now the reg was XXXXXX and a reg check matches the black Toyota Avensis which did the damage but checking the TransportForIreland website they don't have any taxi registered under that number. I never looked at the taxi plate to run a check on that number.


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