Rant: Why can't people join motorways from sliproads?

[Khamelion]

:sbox:It boils my pee that when I'm driving down the motorway at 70mph someone coming down a sliproad wanting to join the motorway cannot get up to motorway speeds to join safely and expects traffic on the main road to slow down so they can join at their speed.

The other one that rankles me as well is when someone pootles down the slip road then once on the main road they speed up!!!

and seeing as I'm off on one, people who cannot park their cars properly, I come into the office car park to find cars taking up two places, I mean how hard is it to get your car between the two white lines?

and rubber neckers, oh please just take their licenses off them, make the roads a safer place.

and people who cannot be bothered to wait in the correct lane, so drive down the wrong lane and try to cut in.

and mothers who park in the mother and baby parking spaces, when they have no child with them, just because they have the kiddies seat in the car doesn't mean they can park there.

and people who park in the disabled spaces when they have no disability, lazy gits

 

[MegaSteve]

and people who cannot be bothered to wait in the correct lane, so drive down the wrong lane and try to cut in...

This is the one currently causing me the most dismay ...

Eastbound approach to Hanger Lane gyratory from the A40 :angry::angry:...

 

[Val]

:sbox:It boils my pee that when I'm driving down the motorway at 70mph someone coming down a sliproad wanting to join the motorway cannot get up to motorway speeds to join safely and expects traffic on the main road to slow down so they can join at their speed.

Or expect you to pull out despite the fact there is no where to go because the next lane is chaos and then proceed to verbally abuse you and give all sorts of hand gestures despite the fact they are in the wrong.

I see it regulalry, 15k+ motorway miles a year generally see's it all.

 

[bobmac]

Roundabouts.
They go round the roundabout tight in to the middle until it's their turn off and they sweep across 3 lanes in one go to turn off. And woe betide anyone who gets in their way

 

[FairwayDodger]

and mothers who park in the mother and baby parking spaces, when they have no child with them, just because they have the kiddies seat in the car doesn't mean they can park there.

Have never understood why these spaces exist anyway - they're usually empty or occupied by people who don't have kids with them. But even if you do have kids does it really matter if you're parked a wee bit away from the shop?

Disabled spaces are, of course, a different matter.

 

[bobmac]

Have never understood why these spaces exist anyway - they're usually empty or occupied by people who don't have kids with them.

I think it's something to do with opening the door wide enough to get the kids in the child seats.
Maybe we'll soon see extra wide parking bays for people who watch too many American food programmes

 

[FairwayDodger]

I think it's something to do with opening the door wide enough to get the kids in the child seats.
Maybe we'll soon see extra wide parking bays for people who watch too many American food programmes

Why not solve that problem for all of us - restrict parking for stupid 4x4s to the bays far away from the shop and we'll all have plenty of room!

Better yet, ban 4x4s in urban areas!


Enjoying the motoring rant thread! :clap:

 

[la_lucha]

Have never understood why these spaces exist anyway - they're usually empty or occupied by people who don't have kids with them. But even if you do have kids does it really matter if you're parked a wee bit away from the shop?

Disabled spaces are, of course, a different matter.

At my local Tesco the parent and child spaces are farther from the shop than the standard spaces, and yes you really do need the extra room to get a Car seat containing Baby out of the car.

 

[deanobillquay]

People pulling into the outside lane doing 60.....

especially when i'm coming behind them doing 100

 

[patricks148]

my pet hate is people in the outside lane and staying there no ,matter what!

its not a fast lane its an overtaking lane, so if you are not overtaking PO

 

[Iaing]

Does Miss Daisy ever make it into the overtaking lane Patrick ?:ears:

 

[chrisd]

Women, cos it usually is, driving for 3 miles on the outside lane of a dual carriageway when there are hardly any other cars around.

 

[Khamelion]

Women, cos it usually is, driving for 3 miles on the outside lane of a dual carriageway when there are hardly any other cars around.

my pet hate is people in the outside lane and staying there no ,matter what!

its not a fast lane its an overtaking lane, so if you are not overtaking PO

Yup my other half regularly does this, She's a fully paid up member of the outside lane owners club, I'm forever reminding her to move into the lane 1.

 

[patricks148]

Does Miss Daisy ever make it into the overtaking lane Patrick ?:ears:

she does and you better not be in the F-ing way

 

[MashieNiblick]

Don't forget the tailgaters - why do they do it?

And the people who don't signal when they are turning left at or leaving a roundabout which you are waiting to drive on to.

 

[Khamelion]

And the people who don't signal when they are turning left at or leaving a roundabout which you are waiting to drive on to.

Wups sometimes guilty of that one

 

[mcbroon]

And the people who don't signal when they are turning left at or leaving a roundabout which you are waiting to drive on to.

I never fail to be amazed by the number of people who don't indicate, and it seems a particular problem on expensive cars. If I spent upwards of £40k on a car, the least I'd expect are some fkkkking indicators.

My own personal favourite (if that's the right word) are lorries who overtake on uphill sections of dual carriageways. GET OUT OF THE EFFING WAY!!!

 

[Val]

Has anyone mentioned middle land hoggers yet?

 

[bobmac]

And for those of you who drive with your fog lights on when it's not foggy......it's an on the spot fine

 

[CMAC]

Roundabouts.
They go round the roundabout tight in to the middle until it's their turn off and they sweep across 3 lanes in one go to turn off. And woe betide anyone who gets in their way

you read the highway code lately