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Near Misses Volume 2 (So close you can feel it)

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  • #2252
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Steoller wrote: »
    Good to hear you're ok - did you get the plate?

    I did and everyone keeps saying report it but I really don't care anymore, the gardai >50% of the time give the its a you said/they said scenario. While I would be hopeful and like to imagine they would think outside the box and say, well actually, we can't do them for that but if you want to be a witness for using the bus lane, dangerous driving etc. but it will be a phone call to traffic watch where they don't get what you are saying, a call back in about 2 to 3 months, and then possibly a very polite well, nowt we can do about that now.
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  • #2253
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,258 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    ah, i misread that.
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  • #2254
    Mundo7976
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Mundo7976


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I did and everyone keeps saying report it but I really don't care anymore, the gardai >50% of the time give the its a you said/they said scenario. While I would be hopeful and like to imagine they would think outside the box and say, well actually, we can't do them for that but if you want to be a witness for using the bus lane, dangerous driving etc. but it will be a phone call to traffic watch where they don't get what you are saying, a call back in about 2 to 3 months, and then possibly a very polite well, nowt we can do about that now.

    Hit & run, leaving the scene of an incident might be worth a report!
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  • #2255
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Cycled through Fairview outbound in rush hour this evening, first time since last year. Forgot how awful it is there. The bus lane outbound may aswell not exist, with cars joining it from the footbridge and beyond. The painted cycle lane crosses the bus lane but is so full of traffic it is a completely redundant, and dangerous, cycle lane anyway. And of course plenty of cars parked at awful angles in the parking bays throughout, aswell as a few mounted on the footpath with obligatory hazards flashing.
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  • #2256
    Suvarnabhumi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Suvarnabhumi


    On the way home today. If you know Templeogue village heading towards Terenure, theres no right turn onto Dodder View Road, so I always cross at the pedestrian lights (they have bike lights on them too). Anyway, me and a pedestrian waiting to cross, we get green and a van takes the (no) right turn and through the pedestrian crossing beeping at us as he comes through.

    I have it on camera, he was driving an Enterprise rent a van. Have a clear picture of the reg. Contemplating reporting it, will have a think about it over night.
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  • #2257
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,677 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Suvarnabhumi wrote: »
    On the way home today. If you know Templeogue village heading towards Terenure, theres no right turn onto Dodder View Road, so I always cross at the pedestrian lights (they have bike lights on them too). Anyway, me and a pedestrian waiting to cross, we get green and a van takes the (no) right turn and through the pedestrian crossing beeping at us as he comes through.

    I have it on camera, he was driving an Enterprise rent a van. Have a clear picture of the reg. Contemplating reporting it, will have a think about it over night.

    Enterprise provide loads of vans to An Post.
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  • #2258
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,258 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    well, enterprise may take a dim view if you tell them you're reporting it to the gardai.
    though i don't know what the policy would be there on how to deal with it.

    anyway, for me this evening - northbound on the old N1, had passed white's agri, coming towards this junction:
    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5335241,-6.1954716,3a,75y,341.85h,79.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXkxl3erFZ66_AtsqPtnKUg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

    there was a guy in a large tractor, pulling a large trailer full of hay bales, waiting to pull out from the road on the right there. he decided to start pulling out when i was maybe 100m from the junction, and he didn't exactly have the acceleration of a ferrari; common sense for me might have been to slam on but i had a slight attack of the red mist so i decided i wasn't going to let him bully me off the road. so i kept going and made him hit the brakes. i'd say he was about 16.
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  • #2259
    sy_flembeck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 916 ✭✭✭sy_flembeck


    crosstownk wrote: »
    And to lots of other companies and individuals. Not sure why you're singling out An Post....?

    An Post was my instant thought too. Probably because they are in my estate daily
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  • #2260
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,677 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    crosstownk wrote: »
    And to lots of other companies and individuals. Not sure why you're singling out An Post....?

    Because most of the Enterprise vans I see around here have a postie in the driving seat.
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  • #2261
    Suvarnabhumi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Suvarnabhumi


    Breezer wrote: »
    Please do. I was raging I didn’t have a camera this morning when the truck driver did the same thing. If a pedestrian is on the road in front of you, you STOP. It doesn’t matter if they’re in the wrong, or if you think they are. You just stop. You don’t keep going and beep the horn. That’s how people get killed.

    I reported the incident. I looked at the video again last night and he cuts across oncoming traffic and another cyclist to make the illegal right turn.

    I would suggest getting a camera, as the evidence is pretty clear here.....

    https://ibb.co/mJMLkDf
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  • #2262
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,371 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    That still is pretty damning, 2 green lights for you guys he's driving through and obviously he knows you're there crossing.
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  • #2263
    ARX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭ARX


    Suvarnabhumi wrote: »
    I have it on camera, he was driving an Enterprise rent a van. Have a clear picture of the reg. Contemplating reporting it, will have a think about it over night.
    If you go down to your local An Post depot in the evening you might spot the van there.
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  • #2264
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That and the picture shows it unlikely a postman.
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  • #2265
    hold my beer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    I hatethe Greenhills Road with a passion. The planners should hang their head in shame.
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  • #2266
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    I'm starting to think that I am the problem
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLmuF-0P4tk


    Had a guy slow merge into the bike lane going up to Sandyford to block the bike lane even though he didn't have the physical space to undertake the car (even without me there) he was trying to undertake, so he had to stop. Another lad in Shankill over took me coming up to one of those traffic islands in the middle of the road and pulled in on me. I hit the window, and he didn't even notice, turned left less than 30m later. I went after him, I really think he had no concept of what I was trying to tell him. He just said OK.

    I mean, is it just me, at this point I hope it is because otherwise, it means there are alot of brain dead, half asleep, no concept of space, people operating vehicles that could kill with ease. Mena being the issue would actually be a sense of relief.
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  • #2267
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,400 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I'm starting to think that I am the problem


    Had a guy slow merge into the bike lane going up to Sandyford to block the bike lane even though he didn't have the physical space to undertake the car (even without me there) he was trying to undertake, so he had to stop. Another lad in Shankill over took me coming up to one of those traffic islands in the middle of the road and pulled in on me. I hit the window, and he didn't even notice, turned left less than 30m later. I went after him, I really think he had no concept of what I was trying to tell him. He just said OK.

    I mean, is it just me, at this point I hope it is because otherwise, it means there are alot of brain dead, half asleep, no concept of space, people operating vehicles that could kill with ease. Mena being the issue would actually be a sense of relief.

    there's another possibility:
    https://www.thejournal.ie/national-drug-and-alcohol-survey-2019-2020-5481966-Jul2021/

    I cycle through Malahide and when i see the amount of people sitting outside drinking alcohol, i cant help wondering how many of them drove to Malahide?
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  • #2268
    fat bloke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,071 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    5uspect wrote: »
    A new park opened a few minutes away from us and we put the kids in the urban arrow and went over to check it out. Lovely playground!

    On the way back we wanted to get ice cream so we needed to turn right off the main road. We signalled and moved across the lane and the dozy fool coming up behind us just shoved past us and on her way. Again, completely unaware.


    Or. Completely aware, and just didn't give a flying f....
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  • #2269
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,168 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Duckjob wrote: »
    You’ve just made me want to watch Falling Down all over again. Id forgotten how good it is....
    Like Terminator 2 and Goodfellas, if I see it on ITV4 or some other random channel at 2 in the morning I just have to watch it no matter how many times Ive seen it.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2270
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,258 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i dunno, i suspect it hasn't aged well. i saw someone with a fake DFENS reg plate a couple of years ago and wondered if they knew he wasn't *meant* to be a hero. at least, that's how i remember the movie.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2271
    hold my beer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    I haven't seen it in years but I bet it stands up very well. Man loses rag at everything will always resonate
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  • #2272
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    I'm with him.

    Right he could have been more descriptive of the space.

    But in 2 lanes the straddle position (with plenty of space) has got to be the safest for the cyclist.

    It completely stops dick manouvers like the Yaris undertaking the truck.

    I'd much rather a HGV straddle the 2 lanes going past me.
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  • #2273
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,900 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    A 'Police' car in Dundrum? I didn't know the PSNI operated so far south!

    Apologies smacl - just one of my pet hates. Years ago at work, i was asked to report to the 'Police Station' in Swords. I never made it there and am still searching for it! :D

    Isn't it in the airport? Where the Airport Police hang out?
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  • #2274
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,258 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i don't see the issue - An Garda Siochana is the name of the irish *police* force.
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  • #2275
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    Christ almighty.

    That's crooked altogether.

    Got be the police looking after their own.
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  • #2276
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    BTW the chap isn't consistent.

    Here he is advising full use of lane 2 when overtaking a cyclist on 2 lane road

    https://youtu.be/FkKQPBkQOJw
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  • #2277
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I stopped watching when he said "submitting"
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


  • #2278
    standardg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,523 ✭✭✭standardg60


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i don't see the issue - An Garda Siochana is the name of the irish *police* force.

    Me too, really don't see the point in pedantically pulling someone up when everyone knows what they mean.
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  • #2279
    Drake66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭Drake66


    Yesterday at the church in shankill I took primary position from the pedestrian lights because I was turning right up ahead at the roundabout towards the village. Some fella raced up behind me and then sat on the car horn from there and all around the roundabout. He then bullied his way past me on shankill main street.

    I ended up catching up with him at the Bray roundabout so his antics didn't have any impact on his journey time. Some lunatics out there.
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  • #2280
    mrcheez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,268 ✭✭✭✭mrcheez


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    A 'Police' car in Dundrum? I didn't know the PSNI operated so far south!

    Apologies smacl - just one of my pet hates. Years ago at work, i was asked to report to the 'Police Station' in Swords. I never made it there and am still searching for it! :D

    I was curious about this... turns out the Irish for "police" is póilíní

    So I guess Ireland doesn't have a police force, just a guard force, like Iran
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  • #2281
    Steoller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭Steoller


    buffalo wrote: »
    Coming from Intel towards Celbridge. I usually come off the cycle track about 100m before the roundabout, through the roundabout on the road, then back on cycle track on far side.

    ah yeah, I don't mix with the dual carriageway there. It's a hassle even when driving.I use the cycle lane up to the first crossing for the Dublin slip lane, then join the roundabout in the main lane. The availability of offroad cycle lanes is great, but that series of roundabouts from leixlip to celbridge are not thought out. and the new layout at Intel makes it clear that cyclists and pedestrian routes were an afterthought in planning.
    Post edited by magicbastarder on


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