David Jenkins
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| posted on 4/7/08 at 11:38 AM |
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Originally posted by DaveFJ
But that is Ipswich for you - quite probably the worst road planners I have ever witnessed!
Matched by some of the worst drivers I have seen! Or maybe it's a Suffolk thing.
Recent examples are:
1. A driver in the inside lane who decided to go right. Unfortunately (for him) I was already alongside him in the outside lane and indicating to go
right... when he eventually looked he found that he had nowhere to go, and the only reason he looked was because I'd just tooted my horn at him
to make sure he knew I was there - I'd already worked out that he was a pillock.
2. Countless drivers with broken indicators - they must be broken, 'cos I've never seen them working.
3. Assorted gary-boys who try to keep up with me when I'm out for a drive in my Locost. I never race them - I just don't slow down for
sharp corners and roundabouts... usually makes them think...
Sorry - got carried away with general ranting there! 
Getting back rapidly to this thread - my wife scares me sometimes. She has a habit of driving straight into a corner, then turning sharply at the last
minute, exactly the opposite of 'set it up for the corner, ease it in and ease it out' technique.
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mcerd1
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| posted on 4/7/08 at 12:28 PM |
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Originally posted by DaveFJ
But that is Ipswich for you - quite probably the worst road planners I have ever witnessed!
you should see some of the things they've done in Edinburgh 
a couple of years back they managed to change St.Andrews square so that you could drive into it ok, but couldn't legally drive out again
the rumor was it had be designed by a woman in the planning office who had never held a drivers license
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 4/7/08 at 01:12 PM |
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As this seems to have gone off on a bit of a roundabout tangent, I just thought I'd join in:
I'm sure that I have brought this up before but there are good roundabouts and bad roundabouts. Some have clear markings which lane should be
used for which road number exits with markings that take you to that exit and others just have concentric rings of markings that mean you have to make
a lane change on the roundabout.
A few years back I was a witness to an accident on a roundabout (2 blokes for what it's worth!). The advice that the policeman gave to both
drivers was "always be prepared to give way to everybody else on a roundabout". His view was that although you may be right and the other
person is in the wrong, it is not worth crashing over.
Back on the general driving discussion, I believe that a lot of it comes down to the male inability to multi-task. We therefore have to devote more of
our resources to driving. Females can multi-task (as they tell us lesser beings) so they devote some of their resources to deciding which shoes will
go best with the new bag or whether they need new shoes too whilst driving. Consequently they don't see the red Astra cutting them up, they see
a moving colour swatch of the perfect colour that the shoes need to be!
Runs for cover!
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 4/7/08 at 06:13 PM |
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Daftest roundabout I've seen is on the road between Inverness and Nairn, just near the airport. It's covered in lane markings that cross
over each other, and make no sense whatsoever. Drivers just ignore them and go their own way anyway...
[Edited on 4/7/08 by David Jenkins]
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Fozzie
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| posted on 4/7/08 at 06:49 PM |
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
Daftest roundabout I've seen is on the road between Inverness and Nairn, just near the airport. It's covered in lane markings that cross
over each other, and make no sense whatsoever. Drivers just ignore them and go their own way anyway...
[Edited on 4/7/08 by David Jenkins]
Yes......I know it well!......
Fozzie
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 4/7/08 at 07:39 PM |
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I'm more scared by my mrs road rage rather than her actual driving (although she does have a habit of trying to overtake 5 cars at once).
She's very fond of the horn, and tends to shout at people who get in her way even when they're perfectly entitled to be there. I worry one
day she'll shout at the wrong person 
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