Random Irritations

[Imurg]

One of the biggest issues with the new pedestrians rule is that's it's too grey...
Previously, if there was a car coming, you waited until it was clear.
Now, say, I'm turning off a main Rd onto a side road and someone is waiting to cross then I have to let them cross...if it's safe to do so.
So if I deem it unsafe to let them cross - because there's a car directly behind me or a car coming the other way ( that doesn't have to give priority) then I can proceed without letting them cross....
How does the pedestrian know that?
Rules like these need to be black and white, no middle ground.
I did see an incident the other week where a driver let a pedestrian cross. The main road was busy and the driver stopped half in/half out of the side road.
A motorcyclist had to take rapid avoiding action which put him in front of oncoming traffic - Me!
Fortunately everyone stopped in time.
Under the old, black and white, rules nothing would have happened except the pedestrian would have had to wait a few seconds more.
Whilst I appreciate what the Powers that be were trying to do, in real life it rarely happens without causing an issue somewhere...
On a personal level, if I was waiting to cross the road I'd want every car to be a million miles away before I set foot on the road...because most of them are a danger to life, the universe and everything and can be trusted about as far as you can throw them..

 

[chellie]

Bin ben have cracked the lid of our brown recycling bin and the council want £41 to replace it. They can sod off! I'm going to put any cardboard in the non recyclable bin now!

 

[Pin-seeker]

Bin ben have cracked the lid of our brown recycling bin and the council want £41 to replace it. They can sod off! I'm going to put any cardboard in the non recyclable bin now!

£41 for a bin
The world’s gone mad.

 

[jim8flog]

Bin ben have cracked the lid of our brown recycling bin and the council want £41 to replace it. They can sod off! I'm going to put any cardboard in the non recyclable bin now!

Who was that Bill and Ben the rubbish Pot Men?

 

[chellie]

Who was that Bill and Ben the rubbish Pot Men?

Love auto correct lol

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Who was that Bill and Ben the rubbish Pot Men?

Flobbadop!

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

I'm reading this thread in Los Cristianos, Tenerife (storm "catastrophe" greatly exaggerated by the way).
I'm extremely impressed by the way drivers absolutely give way when nearing a crossing, even if you are several feet away or pause to wait for your partner.
Locals seem to take this as a given and drivers are probably baffled by my back home "Thank you" hand gesture.

 

[Hobbit]

I'm reading this thread in Los Cristianos, Tenerife (storm "catastrophe" greatly exaggerated by the way).
I'm extremely impressed by the way drivers absolutely give way when nearing a crossing, even if you are several feet away or pause to wait for your partner.
Locals seem to take this as a given and drivers are probably baffled by my back home "Thank you" hand gesture.

Driver will be baffled by the ‘thank you’ wave. They also don’t understand when you flash them to come out of a junction. And they look at you like you’re daft if you thank them for holding a door for you…

 

[Tashyboy]

Not knowing the highest break possible in snooker is not 147 every day is a school day.

 

[Slime]

Not knowing the highest break possible in snooker is not 147 every day is a school day.

155 I believe.

 

[Orikoru]

One of the biggest issues with the new pedestrians rule is that's it's too grey...
Previously, if there was a car coming, you waited until it was clear.
Now, say, I'm turning off a main Rd onto a side road and someone is waiting to cross then I have to let them cross...if it's safe to do so.
So if I deem it unsafe to let them cross - because there's a car directly behind me or a car coming the other way ( that doesn't have to give priority) then I can proceed without letting them cross....
How does the pedestrian know that?
Rules like these need to be black and white, no middle ground.
I did see an incident the other week where a driver let a pedestrian cross. The main road was busy and the driver stopped half in/half out of the side road.
A motorcyclist had to take rapid avoiding action which put him in front of oncoming traffic - Me!
Fortunately everyone stopped in time.
Under the old, black and white, rules nothing would have happened except the pedestrian would have had to wait a few seconds more.
Whilst I appreciate what the Powers that be were trying to do, in real life it rarely happens without causing an issue somewhere...
On a personal level, if I was waiting to cross the road I'd want every car to be a million miles away before I set foot on the road...because most of them are a danger to life, the universe and everything and can be trusted about as far as you can throw them..

Agree with you. How many times you're driving behind someone who's indicating left, then just as you're expecting them to turn off, they actually stop with their back end still in the road (to let a pedestrian go across). Have to have your wits about you then.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Driver will be baffled by the ‘thank you’ wave. They also don’t understand when you flash them to come out of a junction. And they look at you like you’re daft if you thank them for holding a door for you…

I can live with people being baffled by my courtesy.
Stood at a supermarket checkout today with a full basket. On my turn I noticed the guy behind me had one item and gestured him through. He smiled and said "Cheers mate".
Another polite Brit

 

[anotherdouble]

Agree with you. How many times you're driving behind someone who's indicating left, then just as you're expecting them to turn off, they actually stop with their back end still in the road (to let a pedestrian go across). Have to have your wits about you then.

Or not drive too close as you also should have seen the pedestrian and then expected the car in front to stop

 

[Imurg]

In an ideal, perfect world everyone would drive at the right speed, the right distance from the car in front, have the right amount of awareness and anticipation to not let problems occur.
But we don't live in that world.
Real life doesn't work like that, no matter how much we want it to.
A similar thing can be app.ied to newly designed road junctions..
So many lanes, markings and signs.....if everyone did everything right every time the traffic would flow perfectly...that's what the computer wants to happen.
But 1 person getting it wrong, even by a sniff, and the queues begin.
So much is designed for a perfect world that just doesn't exist

 

[Orikoru]

Or not drive too close as you also should have seen the pedestrian and then expected the car in front to stop

Nothing to do with being close, it's just when you're not expecting them to stop in the road.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Or not drive too close as you also should have seen the pedestrian and then expected the car in front to stop

Some time back the car in front of me indicated right where was no right turn, then drove on very slowly, so I warily kept my distance. Then it indicated left but drove past the left turn. Then it indicated right again, and so did I as that was the road to the Golf Club. It then pulled up and I pulled alongside thinking the driver was lost. I was literally screamed at loudly by a woman shouting "Go away and stop following me!!"
I gladly obliged

 

[Orikoru]

Primark selling Black Sabbath and Guns n Roses t-shirts. I don't know why it feels wrong, it just does.

 

[BrianM]

Primark selling Black Sabbath and Guns n Roses t-shirts. I don't know why it feels wrong, it just does.

Welcome to the Jungle that is Primani

 

[anotherdouble]

Nothing to do with being close, it's just when you're not expecting them to stop in the road.

You can roll your eyes as much as you like. As you claim to know the rules about giving pedestrians right of way when turning, you must then expect every car in front of you when indicating left or right, that they might not turn straight away

 

[Orikoru]

You can roll your eyes as much as you like. As you claim to know the rules about giving pedestrians right of way when turning, you must then expect every car in front of you when indicating left or right, that they might not turn straight away