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

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.

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 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?

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.

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.

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".

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.

Chiparus wrote: »

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

I thought the same but its a slight left bend so if he let go he should of straightened up, I had a quick look for a phone when I passed as I thought the same but didn't see it so was thinking it was deliberate. In fairness typically I get more people giving you room in these situations.

Light jumping is gone to a new level now but a huge amount of it appears to be down to the timing or lack of light synchronization and the councils have a lot to answer for in this regard.

Near miss this morning where I was the culprit. Cycling past the radisson towards the UCD flyover (at a decent pace) & a girl comes down the pedestrian steps in a hood & doesn't look, I'd been braking to slow down but not enough & she steps into the cycle lane towards the bus stop at which point I have to swerve & I miss her by milimetres.

Mea culpa, I'll have to take it slightly easier there when it's wet.

Guys make sure you get a camera on your bike or body camera, I was on my way home from work recently in the left of a bus lane inside a cycle path to the right of me is a normal lane for road trafffic non taxi/bus lane.

There was a 40 foot lorry maybe 100 meters behind me that was in the normal bus lane, I was passing on my left a turn into a garage or delivery depot when the lorry proceeded to move into the bus lane then turn left on top of me effectively giving a left hook.

He then shout out the window at me "out of my way" I had to stop suddenly and pull the bike up from between my legs and hop up onto the path. We got into a heated agrument after that I was not happy I almost ended up under his truck he wasn't happy I was shouting at him, at this point he was outside is truck he grabbed me by the collier and proceeded to make physical threats towards me.

TLDR = get a body cam!

queldy wrote: »

What does a citizen of dublin need to do at this stage to make this stop? It is so clearly ridiculous.

I think that time has come and gone. Every time I see a car just 'nipping' through a red light that's been red a while, I think of this young lad https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/driver-who-killed-child-6-after-breaking-red-light-jailed-for-four-years-1.3735530

Utterly senseless that there isnt a massive drive to counteract this selfish behaviour.

stevek93 wrote: »

Guys make sure you get a camera on your bike or body camera, I was on my way home from work recently in the left of a bus lane inside a cycle path to the right of me is a normal lane for road trafffic non taxi/bus lane.

There was a 40 foot lorry maybe 100 meters behind me that was in the normal bus lane, I was passing on my left a turn into a garage or delivery depot when the lorry proceeded to move into the bus lane then turn left on top of me effectively giving a left hook.

He then shout out the window at me "out of my way" I had to stop suddenly and pull the bike up from between my legs and hop up onto the path. We got into a heated agrument after that I was not happy I almost ended up under his truck he wasn't happy I was shouting at him, at this point he was outside is truck he grabbed me by the collier and proceeded to make physical threats towards me.

TLDR = get a body cam!

Don't mean to rain on your parade, but I have 2 cameras and experienced a similar road rage incident. I luckily backed off enough so he couldnt make physical contact but he was ready to go. Reported to garda immediately, as it happened 200ft from station. Garda said nothing he could do, so I escalated to sergeant. Turned out he was a cyclist and was very motivated to follow through. Turns out, he didnt follow through. No more replies to emails. It's just not seen as important

average_runner wrote: »

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.

It sure felt deliberate he pulled in almost to the kerb driving on the double yellows no other car was that far over. Drivers do cut that corner you can see the point before that where yellow lines worn off at the apex of the bend. He had past the apex and a load of room on his right so had little need to move over he was possibly on a phone and over steered other than that I see no reason for it.

average_runner wrote: »

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.

Do you honestly think that some cyclists breaking red lights are in some way responsible for some motorists breaking lights?