Aggression on the roads. Is it getting worse?

[fotorabia]

I havent experienced to much..but last week..ok..we,ve got trams here in Melbourne..so i was cautiously on the inside passing lane...but could see a stop approaching..so was unwilling to pass..nevertheless..i had an old fuck with missus in a big brand new BMW honking n flashing his lights at me...who then overtook me which was completely illegal..what were we saying about new Beemer drivers?

[ruffgeezer]

Aggression on the forums. Is it getting worse?

 

NO IT'S FUCKING NOT YOU FLANGEBASKET!

[warren t claim]

Is it just me who really doesn't have a problem with BMW 316d ErectileDysfunction or Audi A4 SLime drivers? I'd happily let one out of a side road because the rarely hold me up and are quite happy to make progress. The drivers that worry me more are people who drive something like a ten year old Kia Rio, they're normally the most erratic drivers who are more interested in arguing with their kids of playing the Foxy Bingo app on their iPhone.

[Guest]

Aggression on the forums. Is it getting worse?

 

Depends who's asking.

[Tartan58]

I think I'm fairly good at not letting my frustration show although bad driving does make my blood boil inside. Although "getting your own back" is rather satisfying. An example of this which I have taken particular pleasure in is:

The boy racer in a stupidly lowered stupidly loud Civic or somesuch right up my chuff while I was doing 50 in a 50 limit (albeit on a quiet unlit country road) eventually passes me in a somewhat dangerous location. A few minutes later we come into a village with a 30 limit and, crucially, speedhumps; of course his car is too low to go over the bumps at anything over 2mph so I quickly catch him up then proceed to overtake him on the next speed hump then hold him up (at the speed limit) for the next 10 mins until I turned off - a bit naughty I suppose but he was going so slowly I could probably argue he was parked!

[Vanny]

I think the car you play in has a lot of impact on how others react to you. I spend a lot of time in high power very tall boxy looking vehicles with more-powerful-than-the-sun-headlights and rarely get any problems, i guess a combination of perceived power, and the fact that your sat so high the bimmer driver can't actually make eye contact with you.

 

My normal day car is a Seat Leon, and it's pretty invisible to most people it would seem, never let out and regularly cut up. Its also a gutless wonder with impressive MPG so you have to plan an overtake 20 minutes before arriving at the two abrest lorry, so you often get some numpty up your chuff.

 

Then there is the BX. At 70mph it runs at about 60,000rpm, so i tend to do motorways at 65ish and keep in. The problem there is that people just assume that because your going that little bit slower, its okay to block you in against that lorry, you wont mind. Plus side to the valver though, at 65 its ready to go and pretty easy to get out of the situation.

 

I'd like to see two major things change on the roads;

1) get rid of the stupid number of lorries. We live on an island, everything come into the country on a boat, then waddles up the motorway two abreast, grinding the whole network to a halt. Just take the boat a bit further around and drop the shit off where it needs to be, hardly rocket science. Lorries are clogging the road network, but they don't need to.

 

2)Allow carrying of semi automatic weapons to be used for gentle persuasion of the fecking idiots doing 60mph in he middle lane with a full size heard of traffic barrelling down on them! Infact, allow the execution of any one in the middle lane not doing 70 and under 3.5tonnes. That includes bloody caravans. Actually caravans should be banned from the roads during day light hours.

[Albert Ross]

I have an idea to get lorries off the roads.... rip up all the unused cycle tracks (save for dog "walkers" who leave shit everywhere) and lay down two strips of metal, let's say somehwere between 4'8" and 4'9" aparts, and secure them with wooden beams, let's call them "sleepers"..... and rest it all on big lumps of gravel. We could call it a "railway".

Then, perhaps makes these big "engines", that might pull lots of "wagons" full of goods, away from the main roads, straight into "goods yards" on the edges of main towns, and have a local delivery service, where the drivers use little tripod tractor units, called Scammell Scarabs, to take trailers to the big shops. But if someone called Dr Beeching wants to get involved, kill the cunt.

 

Think of all the jobs it would create!

[Guest]

Then, perhaps makes these big "engines", that might pull lots of "wagons" full of goods, away from the main roads, straight into "goods yards" on the edges of main towns, and have a local delivery service, where the drivers use little tripod tractor units, called Scammell Scarabs, to take trailers to the big shops. But if someone called Dr Beeching wants to get involved, kill the cunt.

 

Think of all the jobs it would create!

 

 

Yeah, don't you park your Scammell Scarab down my street. Some prick with a Juke will probably key it. Either that some boss eyed porridge gudger will rip the piss out of you for it, and start a boring as fuck forum in response to minor grammatical infractions posted forthwith.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Is it just me who really doesn't have a problem with BMW 316d ErectileDysfunction or Audi A4 SLime drivers? I'd happily let one out of a side road because the rarely hold me up and are quite happy to make progress. The drivers that worry me more are people who drive something like a ten year old Kia Rio, they're normally the most erratic drivers who are more interested in arguing with their kids of playing the Foxy Bingo app on their iPhone.

 

I'm with you Brother. I don't give a shit about the car, it's the mong behind the wheel. Today I had to evade a Shittyrover being driven by someone who must have been old enough never to have taken a test - a truly frightening lack of awareness and common sense. I was glad to get past the old fart.

Also, the halfwit old bastard and his hatchet faced Mrs in the Honda Jazz. Doing 50 on the dual, I went by at 60 and a few secs later, he screamed past at 80 and cut back in again before slowing back to 60. I went by at 60, and they tried it again. Why?

However, I amused myself and brightened my morning by matching his acceleration until he was virtually under the rear axle of a tipper truck at which point I slowed to 50 to box him in, before I accelerated away. Silly old bastard

[Bobthebeard]

 

 

Also, the halfwit old bastard and his hatchet faced Mrs in the Honda Jazz. Doing 50 on the dual, I went by at 60 and a few secs later, he screamed past at 80 and cut back in again before slowing back to 60. I went by at 60, and they tried it again. Why?

However, I amused myself and brightened my morning by matching his acceleration until he was virtually under the rear axle of a tipper truck at which point I slowed to 50 to box him in, before I accelerated away. Silly old bastard

 

Seems many people think the national speed limit on a dual carriageway is 60mph. Same as national speed limit on any de restricted A or B road. The grumpier and more pedantic drivers like to show you the error of your ways* by trying to keep you at 60....

As we all know on here, the speed limit on dual carriageways is actually 70mph. (Ish)

[barefoot]

I am a dreadful driver but I used to be much worse.

[Bobthebeard]

I am a dreadful driver but I used to be much worse.

 

I am a dreadful lover, and used to be much better.

Struggling to blame that on anyone else though...

[Pete-M]

Judging people by the car they drive is insanity.

 

The evening I brought the old Granada estate back from Wolverhampton it was probably the quickest moving thing on the M6 from Wolves to the M62. I drove it exactly the same way I'd drive my Subaru, Jag, or any of the stuff I drive in work. I know I'm a **** at the best of times, but deciding I'm some sort of **** for driving a Skoda fitted with DRLs but not when I drive a 30 year old Granada the same way just seems like madness.

 

This month alone I've driven a Citroen C8, Tourneo, numerous Skodas, Subaru, Mondeo, XJR, Grand Voyager, Seat Alhambra, Focus Estate and an Austin A35 van. The A35 has a 1275 Cooper spec engine and a Toyota 5 speed box, so even that was capable of happy motorway speed cruising. Nobody seemed to get upset at any of them.

[Guest]

I let a bloke in an MX 5 out of a junction today. I am great.

[nisfan]

Ive already noticed in the few miles ive driven the renault that they think im 160 and on the verge of death, they think i wont do over 10mph so do whatever they can to get past.

Drove a micrap for a while, now there is a car that will get you bullied.

Dont get any bother in the 325 and the golf is invisible.

[Albert Ross]

I still get fools pulling out in front of me, forget the fact I drive with lights on, it's 7 feet tall, orange lights on the roof, and it weighs 2 tons..... yeah, it takes some stopping too. However the headlamps aren't bright enough to fry their necks.

[meggersdog]

Today I was driving along a 40mph speed limit,up ahead was a line of maybe five or six cars which, when I joined the line, were doing just above 35mph.As I joined the queue a big black Merc pulled out and overtook the lead car.The lead car turned out to be a learner and about 200 yards from the overtake is a roundabout where the road we are on turns into dual carriageway so I thought the Merc driver must have been in a hurry.

The Merc driver,two cars infront and myself all turned left at the roundabout.So the 40 zone is now national speed limit and there is no learner driver to hold "everyone" up.For the next five miles the big black Mercedes is nudging 50mph so I thought what was the point of scaring some poor learner if you weren't in such a rush.Turns out the car was a CL500 driven by some woman in her sixties and not some sharp suited busy businessman afterall.

[willswitchengage]

"no"

 

Aggression, road rage, etc aren't. IMHO driver aids, phones etc are making people far less focused on driving than in yesteryear and as a result driving quality falls, therefore, along with greater congestion, increasing "altercations".

[willswitchengage]

I have an idea to get lorries off the roads.... rip up all the unused cycle tracks (save for dog "walkers" who leave shit everywhere) and lay down two strips of metal, let's say somehwere between 4'8" and 4'9" aparts, and secure them with wooden beams, let's call them "sleepers"..... and rest it all on big lumps of gravel. We could call it a "railway".

Then, perhaps makes these big "engines", that might pull lots of "wagons" full of goods, away from the main roads, straight into "goods yards" on the edges of main towns, and have a local delivery service, where the drivers use little tripod tractor units, called Scammell Scarabs, to take trailers to the big shops. But if someone called Dr Beeching wants to get involved, kill the cunt.

 

Although I agree with the sentiment and how railway privatisation in this country has been the biggest industrial policy disaster for a century, we don't actually have much of a modal dilemma. I studied this for my University dissertation - compared to our continental neighbours, we carry almost an identical percentage of freight-km by road (~65%). Most of our bulk cargo and intermodal traffic is carried by coastal shipping, whereas in Germany, France etc they have less accessible coastlines and therefore their non-road slice is generally munched up by rail instead.