Arséhole drivers

Rhyme · 29-09-2014 11:28AM

There's a load of this on the M1, shits in Northern reg cars acting the maggot. Now, there are cars with Southern plates doing dangerous stuff too but a far greater amount with Northern reg's between the Swords and Balbriggan exit's (and presumably beyond).

Someone said to me once that it's to do with the Gardai being unable to ticket them for some reason?

Buona Fortuna · 29-09-2014 11:28AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Why does a motorway only have two lanes?

bear1 wrote: »

How many should it have?

Doesn't make any difference. If there's three, four, five lanes there will always be some knob or lady knob head.

pickarooney · 29-09-2014 11:29AM

bear1 wrote: »

How many should it have?

Three, at least. It's just a dual carriageway otherwise, surely?

Genghiz Cohen · 29-09-2014 11:31AM

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

This one?

We turned over the page dear

I love this, I can just imagine him thinking: "Oh yeah this post will get their backs RIGHT UP!
I'm so controversial I bet The Man will take any opportunity to silence me!"

bear1 · 29-09-2014 11:32AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Three, at least. It's just a dual carriageway otherwise, surely?

Not really. There are many many motorways throughout Europe with 2 lanes.
As already posted above, there could 5 lanes and you'd still meet some ****e that wants to do 300 over the limit.

Barely There · 29-09-2014 11:32AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Three, at least. It's just a dual carriageway otherwise, surely?

A dual carriageway can have any number of lanes, as can a motorway.

The 'dual' is because you have separate carriageways for each direction of travel - nothing to do with the number of lanes.

SpaceTime · 29-09-2014 11:33AM

That's just the Northern Irish way of greeting other drivers on the road.

The correct response is to toot your horn and raise your middle finger in a kind of friendly wave gesture.

SuperGrover · 29-09-2014 11:34AM

Some people are muppets. Thankfully most aren't.

One time I was first in queue at pedestrian lights on red. All pedestrians had crossed, lights changed to flashing amber. Double-check and off I go. The woman behind me waited (presume for green to show), then came up behind me and started beeping and flashing lights and hand gestures and all that craic.
I pulled over and, to my surprise, she did too. We got out and stood on the side of the road.
I let her have her rant about boy racers (huh? me?) endangering lives etc. and reporting me to the gardai and such like.
I cut across her to explain the flashing amber but she was having none of it and went off ranting about gardai and reg number and stuff.
Funny enough, I never heard a thing about the day I adhered to the rules of the road perfectly.

the groutch · 29-09-2014 11:34AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Three, at least. It's just a dual carriageway otherwise, surely?

Is it not the lack of traffic lights rather than the number of lanes that gives it motorway status?

SpaceTime · 29-09-2014 11:35AM

On a more serious note she's probably just fed up with the total lack of lane discipline.

I keep encountering drivers who seem to feel it's their duty to police speed limits in the overtaking lane.

pickarooney · 29-09-2014 11:35AM

Barely There wrote: »

A dual carriageway can have any number of lanes, as can a motorway.

The 'dual' is because you have separate carriageways for each direction of travel - nothing to do with the number of lanes.

A motorway has two separate carriageways, and is a type of dual carriageway, but should have three or more lanes really. Otherwise what's the point of making a distinction? With no angryfastpeople lane it makes overtaking a bit dodgy.

FlowerGarden · 29-09-2014 11:37AM

I was driving on the M18 from Limerick to Ennis yesterday evening. I went to pass out a van that was driving at 100kmh on the motorway. As I pulled up along side him he suddenly speeds up and starts racing me! I passed him and another car and moved back into the left hand lane. Next thing is he puts his foot on the pedal again and passes me out, then slows down when he gets in front of me. Another car comes up alongside him and he does the same thing, puts his foot on the accelerator to try and prevent being passed out!
I'm so sorry not I didn't get his reg to report him.

anncoates · 29-09-2014 11:39AM

SpaceTime wrote: »

On a more serious note she's probably just fed up with the total lack of lane discipline.

I keep encountering drivers who seem to feel it's their duty to police speed limits in the overtaking lane.

Even if somebody is hogging lanes if you think driving up to the bumper flashing lights and then cutting in to brake in front of them is not idiotic behaviour, you're taking the piss.

Hopefully she ends up driving into a wall somewhere

Buona Fortuna · 29-09-2014 11:39AM

pickarooney wrote: »

A motorway has two separate carriageways, and is a type of dual carriageway, but should have three or more lanes really. Otherwise what's the point of making a distinction? With no angryfastpeople lane it makes overtaking a bit dodgy.

Well, aside from the lack of traffic lights, that its cambers and bends are designed to take higher speed traffic, certain classes of vehicle and driver are prohibited.

SpaceTime · 29-09-2014 11:41AM

anncoates wrote: »

Even if somebody is hogging lanes if you think driving up to the bumper flashing lights and then cutting in to brake in front of them is not idiotic behaviour, you're taking the piss.

Hopefully she ends up driving into a wall somewhere

Not saying she's right, just that driving on Irish motorways can be a frustrating experience at times. Very few people are aware of the lane rules as they werent in the test or driver education.

Barely There · 29-09-2014 11:42AM

pickarooney wrote: »

A motorway has two separate carriageways, and is a type of dual carriageway, but should have three or more lanes really. Otherwise what's the point of making a distinction? With no angryfastpeople lane it makes overtaking a bit dodgy.

The amount of lanes required on a motorway is a function of the traffic volumes it's expected to carry - that's why the M50 has 3 lanes and the M8 has 2.

A motorway is a higher standard of dual carriageway road. You will have controlled access points at grade separated junctions and usually a higher speed limit.

gramar · 29-09-2014 11:43AM

FlowerGarden wrote: »

I was driving on the M18 from Limerick to Ennis yesterday evening. I went to pass out a van that was driving at 100kmh on the motorway. As I pulled up along side him he suddenly speeds up and starts racing me! I passed him and another car and moved back into the left hand lane. Next thing is he puts his foot on the pedal again and passes me out, then slows down when he gets in front of me. Another car comes up alongside him and he does the same thing, puts his foot on the accelerator to try and prevent being passed out!
I'm so sorry not I didn't get his reg to report him.

Amazing how often that happens.

A year back I overtook the same car 5 times over about a 25km stretch on a quiet motorway. No word of a lie I want at 125/130kph the whole way. There were times when the other car was doing about 80-90kph and then when it passed me it was going at 150-160kph. Bizarre behaviour by a blonde in a red 307.

SpaceTime · 29-09-2014 11:44AM

Barely There wrote: »

A motorway is a higher standard of dual carriageway road. You will have controlled access points at grade separated junctions and usually a higher speed limit.

You forgot to add : they're ideal for driving tractors at slow speeds. Special Irish rule.

Floppybits · 29-09-2014 11:46AM

bear1 wrote: »

At the end of the day what have you lost? 10/20 seconds?

Those 10/20 seconds are vital to those a-holes, they are so important that some of thepeople in the estate where I live when taking the 3rd exit on the roundabout go right on the roundabout so they dont have to drive around the roundabout just to save those vital seconds.

Akrasia · 29-09-2014 11:47AM

FlowerGarden wrote: »

I was driving on the M18 from Limerick to Ennis yesterday evening. I went to pass out a van that was driving at 100kmh on the motorway. As I pulled up along side him he suddenly speeds up and starts racing me! I passed him and another car and moved back into the left hand lane. Next thing is he puts his foot on the pedal again and passes me out, then slows down when he gets in front of me. Another car comes up alongside him and he does the same thing, puts his foot on the accelerator to try and prevent being passed out!
I'm so sorry not I didn't get his reg to report him.

That'd be Fast Dan. He's a real character.

anncoates · 29-09-2014 11:51AM

SpaceTime wrote: »

Not saying she's right, just that driving on Irish motorways can be a frustrating experience at times. Very few people are aware of the lane rules as they werent in the test or driver education.

Walking through a crowded shopping centre can be a frustrating experience. Do you get in people's faces for blocking the escalator?

No because you'd eventually get a slap whereas cars afford idiots the anonymity to be aggressive twats without getting caught

The One Doctor · 29-09-2014 11:56AM

italodisco wrote: »

nothing worse than getting stuck behind 'speed limit' types in the fast lane.
if you want to stay within the limit that's fine but could you do it in the left lane ???

and btw , if folk want to break the speed limit it is nobody else's place to decide the rules but the gardai .

sorry for the rant but it's enraging getting stuck behind someone that purposely won't move just to make the point there's a speed limit...

if you look for trouble you'll get it , it's that simple.

There are so many things wrong with this post I don't know where to start.

AudreyHepburn · 29-09-2014 12:04PM

One thing that really irks me about our roads is the attitude shown to learner drivers.

I've been honked at more times than I could count and it is always quite obvious I am a learner because of my L Plates. I remember three occasions in particular.

One was in the Pheonix Park, the first time I'd driven there and I was getting ready to move of from a roundabout. The woman behind me just kept beeping at me, which made me even more nervous than I already was so it then took me even longer to get going.

The second was the park again, and this time it was a taxi driver behind me. I was going out a gate which is known for being difficult because no-one seems to know who has the right of way there. Anyway I was waiting to drive, looking for a good gap which is a bit tricky there because the view is restricted slightly by the park wall and this taxi driver decided not to give me a proper chance and pulled out in front of me as I was about to go. Then to make matters worse the people behind him kept pulling in front of me too, shooting me filthies as they went. So I got stuck for ages until one nice man realized what was going on and let me go.

The other was the same type of incident except I was attempting a hill start in an industrial estate and was finding it a bit a difficult. Again the guy honking away behind me really wasn't helping.

Folks can you please remember that while driving may be as easy as breathing for you now, you had to learn once too.

Just because I don't pull away as quick or easy as you do does not mean I'm trying to inconvenience you.

A little patience and understanding go a long way. Sadly patience seems to be something a lot of Irish drivers lack.

Barely There · 29-09-2014 12:13PM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

One thing that really irks me about our roads is the attitude shown to learner drivers.

I've been honked at more times than I could count and it is always quite obvious I am a learner because of my L Plates. I remember three occasions in particular.

One was in the Pheonix Park, the first time I'd driven there and I was getting ready to move of from a roundabout. The woman behind me just kept beeping at me, which made me even more nervous than I already was so it then took me even longer to get going.

The second was the park again, and this time it was a taxi driver behind me. I was going out a gate which is known for being difficult because no-one seems to know who has the right of way there. Anyway I was waiting to drive, looking for a good gap which is a bit tricky there because the view is restricted slightly by the park wall and this taxi driver decided not to give me a proper chance and pulled out in front of me as I was about to go. Then to make matters worse the people behind him kept pulling in front of me too, shooting me filthies as they went. So I got stuck for ages until one nice man realized what was going on and let me go.

The other was the same type of incident except I was attempting a hill start in an industrial estate and was finding it a bit a difficult. Again the guy honking away behind me really wasn't helping.

Seems like you're the common denominator in all these anecdotes.

AudreyHepburn · 29-09-2014 12:18PM

Barely There wrote: »

Seems like you're the common denominator in all these anecdotes.

:rolleyes:

Have you never been a learner driver?

Balmed Out · 29-09-2014 12:19PM

Barely There wrote: »

Seems like you're the common denominator in all these anecdotes.

We all had to learn at some stage. I have a mate who is teaching his wife in his car so had L plates up. Hes been driving the bones of twenty years himself but all of a sudden half of other road users were far more aggressive and would try to pass him out at the slightest opportunity.

Barely There · 29-09-2014 12:25PM

Beeping at learners helps them to learn.

How else will they realise that they're doing something wrong?

AudreyHepburn · 29-09-2014 12:29PM

Barely There wrote: »

Beeping at learners helps them to learn.

How else will they realise that they're doing something wrong?

Peeping at a learner will do for them the exact opposite of what you want it to do.

It makes you even more nervous so you mess up even more.

You were a learner once, you made mistakes, I'm sure you got peeped at and hated it.

Don't be so selfish and ignorant. Have patience and understanding.

wawaman · 29-09-2014 12:30PM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

The second was the park again, and this time it was a taxi driver behind me.

Sssssh dont mention the T word !!!

SpaceTime · 29-09-2014 12:31PM

Saw a "lady" in Cork repeatedly beeping at an L plate driver. The lerarner panicked and drove right into moving traffic as a result.

He was just waiting for a clear spot on a busy junction with stop signs.

Arséhole drivers

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