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

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  • #9512
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Effects wrote: »
    Taxi driver, just speeding up the cycle lane to avoid the traffic queue on Stephen's Green.
    Can you report stuff like this?

    That was common when I commuted this way a while back. Often overtaken by taxis in this lane. Some carry on from “professional” drivers.


  • #9513
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,501 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    Assuming some fecker let him in too, always the way...


  • #9514
    hesker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭hesker


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i was driving yesterday, coming from a minor road and turning left onto a major road, so obviously primarily focussed on traffic coming from the right. about 100m or 200m up to my right, a double decker bus was stopped, so i was concerned that there might be overtaking traffic obscured by the bus, so i was making sure there wasn't before i pulled out and swung left - and realised i hadn't seen a cyclist to my left; he was stopped in the lane, seemed to be having trouble clipping in, and must have been there for at least 5 seconds without me copping him. as it was, i wouldn't have hit him regardless, but it did startle me that i managed to not see him.

    Extremely common for all of us to only look in one direction. Most frequent reason for crashes at roundabouts I reckon.


  • #9515
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,203 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Main reason the driving test fail rate is so high according to my instructor.


  • #9516
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,196 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    This morning, coming down Finglas road towards town. Was overtaken by a women in the bus lane (shouldn't have been there but that's an aside), just as two pedestrians walked out onto the road without looking causing her to slam on the brakes. I just about managed to stay on the bike and avoid going into the back of her.


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  • #9517
    Exodus 1811
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Exodus 1811


    CramCycle wrote: »
    It would be almost impossible to not notice the site_owner here, being slightly further forward would have just meant he was definitely under the wheel, I don't think any position would have made a difference bar him climbing up on the windscreen and wiping his bare arse on the drivers side of the window.

    I haven't guffawed in a long time, but by jaysus did I guffaw at that.


  • #9518
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,747 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    still an ever so slight tingle in my right hand from an open handed slap i gave a car earlier. idiot was nearly stationary in traffic, but decided to swing into a petrol station without indicating, or clearly checking her rear view mirror.


  • #9519
    Rechuchote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Rechuchote


    Deleted User wrote: »
    and what if you didn't have the horn?????

    An unusual way to attract a driver's attention, but I'd say it'd work all right.


  • #9520
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Castleknock this evening, indicating to avoid some leaves in the road ahead of me. Not sure if anyone noticed, but it’s rained buckets over the past 72 hours and there’s debris everywhere. :rolleyes:.

    Queue of cars coming the other way, and on a narrow road, but numb nuts behind me still tries to overtake me. This close passing law can’t come soon enough.


  • #9521
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,747 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    waiting at this junction to turn right (in the car) earlier, wet and dark out, and a car coming from my left and turning right, i.e. to come down past me, didn't spot the cyclist - with light and hi-vis - coming from my right. i blew the horn at the motorist to warn him but i got a 'what was that for?' look from him as he passed, i don't think he copped the cyclist at any point.
    to add insult to injury, (and not seen by me, but my wife) the motorist who had been behind the cyclist basically ran him off the road onto the footpath seconds later.


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  • #9522
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,876 ✭✭✭tnegun


    A few from the last 2 days

    Why paint doesn't make a safe cycle lane - it might look like the cars pulled away but I slowed prempting the left hook

    https://streamable.com/qny0n - bonus close pass

    https://streamable.com/fq79i
    https://streamable.com/q90d6 - too busy reading the Journal on his phone

    2 impatient drivers
    https://streamable.com/c3x16


  • #9523
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,196 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    With rain like this evening, it's always a huge relief to get home in one piece. It's not the getting wet that bothers me (I was totally comfortable in my rain gear), it's the increased level of impatience/poor observation, coupled with the fact that it takes longer to brake when you do get cut off/pedestrian walks out in front etc.

    Decided against getting on the bike tomorrow for that reason, will work from home or get the bus.


  • #9524
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,747 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i don't mind cycling in the dark, and i don't mind cycling in the wet, but cycling in the wet and dark is unpleasant. partly because i know that most drivers won't see bike lights in rear view mirrors if they're covered in raindrops.


  • #9525
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i don't mind cycling in the dark, and i don't mind cycling in the wet, but cycling in the wet and dark is unpleasant. partly because i know that most drivers won't see bike lights in rear view mirrors if they're covered in raindrops.

    Or if they’re looking at a video on their phone while driving, like the clown I saw earlier.


  • #9526
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 939 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    Had a punishment close pass by a tosspot in a Donegal reg VW golf in the bus lane on the way into Dublin CC opposite St Nicholas' Cathedral this morning. He came very close to me.

    He was tailgating me before this as he illegally used the bus lane around Fumbally Cafe.

    I have bad footage of this on camera as it was very wet. :(


  • #9527
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    FYI, there's a discussion about the NTA being able to issue fines or points to motorists who are filmed driving in a bus lane in the BusConnects thread.
    Yesterday our pathetic Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport confirmed that the gardai are the only ones who will enforce this law (and we know how well that has gone :rolleyes:)...
    https://twitter.com/DublinCommuters/status/1192132496076476417



    On a slightly separate matter, how does one provide video footage to AGS?
    Email? Web URL? Memory stick (do you get it back)?


  • #9528
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,876 ✭✭✭tnegun


    I've given them a URL to download it from but it was never downloaded, given them a USB key that was never returned and had them film it on their phone from my laptop!!


  • #9529
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    FYI, there's a discussion about the NTA being able to issue fines or points to motorists who are filmed driving in a bus lane in the BusConnects thread.
    Yesterday our pathetic Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport confirmed that the gardai are the only ones who will enforce this law (and we know how well that has gone :rolleyes:)...
    https://twitter.com/DublinCommuters/status/1192132496076476417



    On a slightly separate matter, how does one provide video footage to AGS?
    Email? Web URL? Memory stick (do you get it back)?

    Loads of abuse of the bus / Cycle lanes on pretty much every part of my commute this morning from castleknock to central Dublin. It's getting worse as well. The chances of being caught are so slim it's worth the risk obviously. Speaking to one of my Northern Irish work colleagues yesterday, he's in disbelief that you can drive in a bus lane pretty much at will here.


  • #9530
    Exodus 1811
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Exodus 1811


    Aircoach broke the lights and continued through at North Wall Quay at the Samuel Beckett Bridge crossing this morning.

    - Lights go red for car traffic
    - Light goes green for bicycle traffic
    - Wreckless Aircoach driver continues on and slams on in the middle of the junction
    - Much cursing and blinding from everyone

    It seems like this is a hotspot due to the distance between ped/bicycle crossings. When I got to work I was wondering what can be done here, do I call the Guards? do I need footage? or do I just bitch on boards..


  • #9531
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 939 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    Exodus 1811 wrote: »
    Aircoach broke the lights and continued through at North Wall Quay at the Samuel Beckett Bridge crossing this morning.

    - Lights go red for car traffic
    - Light goes green for bicycle traffic
    - Wreckless Aircoach driver continues on and slams on in the middle of the junction
    - Much cursing and blinding from everyone

    It seems like this is a hotspot due to the distance between ped/bicycle crossings. When I got to work I was wondering what can be done here, do I call the Guards? do I need footage? or do I just bitch on boards..

    Even if you had footage there would be nothing done about it.

    I've taken to screen capping things like that on my camera and leave scathing reviews on google for the relevant company.

    I am also forming the opinion that boards is actually winding me up as opposed to being some form of cathartic release when bitching about it.

    I'm cycling around in a very negative mood having a lot of imaginary arguments with bad drivers. :D


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  • #9532
    Hrududu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    This junction has really gone to the dogs for stuff like this. Every day you see something like this because they know they can get away with it


  • #9533
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,747 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i mentioned this a week or two ago - road safety is not a priority for gardai as the relevant authorities are happy with the current situation. road deaths are at a reasonable low, and that's the only metric they really care about. why fix it if it ain't broke?

    until they start using other metrics in determining resource allocation, it's not going to change.


  • #9534
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,002 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Speaking to one of my Northern Irish work colleagues yesterday, he's in disbelief that you can drive in a bus lane pretty much at will here.
    A colleague who used to work as an on-call service engineer told me it was worth his while to use the bus lanes at will, and absorb a couple of €120 fines each year, as the chances of being caught were so slim.
    Exodus 1811 wrote: »
    Aircoach broke the lights and continued through at North Wall Quay at the Samuel Beckett Bridge crossing this morning.

    - Lights go red for car traffic
    - Light goes green for bicycle traffic
    - Wreckless Aircoach driver continues on and slams on in the middle of the junction
    - Much cursing and blinding from everyone

    It seems like this is a hotspot due to the distance between ped/bicycle crossings. When I got to work I was wondering what can be done here, do I call the Guards? do I need footage? or do I just bitch on boards..
    I was coming south to north on that junction, and a black Audi heading east on the north quays ran the red light, and then beeped me when I had the temerity to move out in front of him. This was just after a taxi and a Foodco company truck did the illegal left turn over the bridge.


  • #9535
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 939 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i mentioned this a week or two ago - road safety is not a priority for gardai as the relevant authorities are happy with the current situation. road deaths are at a reasonable low, and that's the only metric they really care about. why fix it if it ain't broke?

    until they start using other metrics in determining resource allocation, it's not going to change.

    It's very irish. I was just thinking on the way home that the reason there isn't more done about red light jumping is because there is not a huge volume of serious accidents arising from it.*

    It's the 'ah shure it's grand, there's no one getting killed.'



    *I have absolutely no stats to back this up


  • #9536
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭secman


    If there was ever a case for the cycling community and Cycling Ireland to get behind and put pressure on the State and an GS it has to be the case of the late Shane O'Farrell. A truly awful littany of fcuk ups, cover ups. I heard his mother on the radio yesterday, a truly remarkable woman, the case goes back to August 2011, shame on the authorities.


  • #9537
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,777 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    secman wrote: »
    If there was ever a case for the cycling community and Cycling Ireland to get behind and put pressure on the State and an GS it has to be the case of the late Shane O'Farrell. A truly awful littany of fcuk ups, cover ups. I heard his mother on the radio yesterday, a truly remarkable woman, the case goes back to August 2011, shame on the authorities.

    God I remember that one, truly horrific. Last I heard about it was some months ago when several members of the force were to face disciplinary proceedings, did anything come of those?


  • #9538
    droidus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭droidus


    7 or so last night. Heading west on NCR just before Phibsboro. Heavy traffic, worked my way into right hand lane to take a right down the lane that goes down the side of mountjoy at the library. Pedestrian light in front of me is going red, so thats ideal as I won't need to hold up traffic as I wait to turn.

    Im just about to turn right, do one more check over my shoulder and as I swing my head back around before I start turning, and just then a lady in a people carrier barrels straight through the red light. Missed me by about 5 inches.


  • #9539
    Garzard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭Garzard


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Loads of abuse of the bus / Cycle lanes on pretty much every part of my commute this morning from castleknock to central Dublin. It's getting worse as well. The chances of being caught are so slim it's worth the risk obviously. Speaking to one of my Northern Irish work colleagues yesterday, he's in disbelief that you can drive in a bus lane pretty much at will here.

    Same story here this morning - the bus & cycle lanes were almost entirely occupied with private traffic trying to skip the backlogs in Rathgar all the way up to the canal in Rathmines. Absolutely infuriating and caused my cycle, which is typically only 25mins from Knocklyon to Stephen's Green to take something closer to an hour.


  • #9540
    Effects
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    What's the reason for not having it camera enforced? You'd think it'd be a big cash generator.


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  • #9541
    Exodus 1811
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Exodus 1811


    Utter Consternation wrote: »
    Even if you had footage there would be nothing done about it.

    I've taken to screen capping things like that on my camera and leave scathing reviews on google for the relevant company.

    I am also forming the opinion that boards is actually winding me up as opposed to being some form of cathartic release when bitching about it.

    I'm cycling around in a very negative mood having a lot of imaginary arguments with bad drivers. :D

    I travel up and down the M7 a lot, the green bus is one of the most lethal things to contend with on the roads too. Flying up the overtaking lane, lane switching, speeding.. Mental! I actually thought one was hijacked one evening. Is it tough landing schedules that keeps them with the pedal to the metal?

    Reminds me of the bus from chinese bus from NYC to Boston, before some of them got shut down.


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