bladebrew wrote: » Edit short version: sogood is correct, it's sensible to leave room at this busy merge, common sense wins and the left lane ends in about 500metres anyway
CiniO wrote: » How is 40 seconds of driving in middle lane before the merge justified?
bladebrew wrote: » The high horse brigade need a trip to Cork, the comments about the video here are getting ridiculous, I know this road well I worked on one side and lived on the other, so I drove it everyday, the lights at the roundabout below this flyover releases 2 lanes of traffic which have a fairly short journey to merge at 100km/h, needless to say this leads to people trying to merge at anywhere between 60-120km/h, nobody drives down the left here, A few hundred metres beyond where the video ends the left lane turns off to Douglas and then it turns back into 2 lanes until after the Jack lynch tunnel, One incident when I was in the left lane here resulted in a learner panicking when I slowed to let her merge she swerved at me then hit the brakes, I sped up a bit she then swerved across all the hatching back towards the hard shoulder, A little bit of local knowledge will go a longer way to prevent an accident than looking at rules trying to cover every road in the country, And this is from a person who spends his time on the N7 in the left lane with only Stobart trucks around me while every one cruises down the middle lane, And I have just been in Australia where at every junction everyone moves to the outside lane, let's everyone merge then everyone moves back to the left, so if the high horse brigade head over and drive only in the left lane they will cause mayhem! Edit short version: sogood is correct, it's sensible to leave room at this busy merge, common sense wins and the left lane ends in about 500metres anyway
cormie wrote: » Here's a little compilation from the vans
John_Rambo wrote: » Where were you when the cars didn't like you parallel parking? I had someone tailgate me to stop me parking like that before in Roscommon town, he did it three time, beeped and blocked me when the white lights came on. Found it very odd. Never happened to me before.
dickwod1 wrote: » Use your indicators next time :pac:
BMJD wrote: » I forgot to save the clip before it was overwritten, but yesterday morning at around 08:15 on the M1 southbound just before the airport exit, there was a guy stopped half-way in the overtaking lane (there's a narrow heard shoulder type space on the right of the lane) who appeared to be changing a wheel :eek:
cormie wrote: » Here's a little compilation from the vans [
dashcamdanny wrote: » Hard to know. Is that area 30kph? That jeep driver was not slowing for people walking, yet those ambulance drivers take terrible risks with other peoples safety in general . Great vid.
jackofalltrades wrote: » The street the ambulance is on(Aungier Street) is the main road. The street the Jeep is on is Longford street. It's a traffic light controlled junction. So it looks like one of the drivers was breaking a red light.
The Dagda wrote: » I travelled that road daily when I lived in Cork and your description is very good, but using the excuse that "I know this road so I'm only doing this (hogging the middle lane) because of idiots further down the road", is one that everybody who doesn't use lanes correctly can use, to some extent. It takes 5 seconds to move lane, and if you have to move lane because of someone else, then do. Don't hog the lane "in case" someone does something. Drive correctly, and if something happens THEN take corrective action. Leaving room at that merge does not solely mean hogging the outside lanes. You can slow down, drive in the correct lane and move if neccessary. Laziness/carelessness is the main reason people hog lanes, and it's a lazy, and arrogant argument to use the "I know the road so I can do this" excuse.
Nonoperational wrote: » I would usually agree, but it is actually dangerous to go any further than the middle of the fly-over in the inside lane. There is a constant stream of 2 lanes of traffic trying to merge at high speed. Positioning yourself in the middle lane is much safer and perfectly reasonable as you approach the flyover.
dashcamdanny wrote: » Fair sure that was a loading area he was parked in. Tell him to get the F out of there unless he is loading. Hate that in Dublin city center. People using the loading bays to nip into a shop.
CiniO wrote: » I wonder whose fault was that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iRkGymTS9g
mitosis wrote: » The circumstancial evidence is the car was running the light. There were many pedestrians crossing both sides of the junction across his path, none crossing the other way. It suggests the green man was showing.
