Bad Taxi

redvee
redvee Posts: 11,922
edited July 2008 in Commuting chat
Had the misfortune to be on the road at the same bit of road as this taxi. They stop at the junction, come halfway across the road and stop after seeing me again then cut in front of me further up the road. Luckily the cab had a company plate on the side and the numberplate is as clear as day. Going to delve a bit deeper and take the footage to the boss on tuesday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=367kTySH1f4
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  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    Ah, he is obviously having a premonition that you are about to go the wrong way up the one way road ahead and is showing his displeasure!

    Incidentally I take the same "short" cut to avoid the cobbles.

    Terrible bit of driving though, hope you get some response from the taxi firm
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  • nwallace
    nwallace Posts: 1,465
    Situation 1:
    "I can get out in front of him"
    "No wait I can't"
    "Wait, I can get the car along side from here and overtake"

    Situation 2:
    "What the f*** where did he come from"
    "um, can overtake from here"
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    Situation 3:

    "He can bloody wait!" :roll: Which is what happened to me today - I was centered and flowing nicely with the traffic across the lights until a guy in a dark blue jag decided he MUST go first! :roll: I was too knackered to shout (see polution post)
  • victor ludorum
    victor ludorum Posts: 310
    My personal belief is that many minicab drivers are/were heavy LSD users and have convinced themselves that the two-wheeled apparitions are some sort of flashback...
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  • karl j
    karl j Posts: 517
    yeah, he's just thought bollix its only a cyclist

    hope you get a reasonable response from the company concerned.

    just a thought - Is it worth showing to the council(?) or whoever else authorises taxi's in your town, to show them what sort of muppets they are handing out taxi licences to ?
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Haven't paid a visit to the comapny yet but a visit to the licensing dept of BCC has been considered too, it all depends on the response from the company in question. Might go out and pay them a visit this afternoon, depends on when the climb up Alpe D'huez starts. Have the footage on a DVD for them to watch and also on my phone, though I did show a friend and he couldn't see anything wrong with it :cry:
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  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    I reckon taxi drivers are the worst, they're either pootling along at 20mph because they're early for a fair or sat up your ar$e on a Saturday night because they have plenty of fares waiting. And then they sit outside your house "parping" in the middle of the night because they're too fat and lazy to walk to the door and knock. And they smell bad!
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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    TBH although that wasn't the best bit of driving, I've seen way way worse. He saw you and gave you all the room you needed. You weren't going terrible quckly and didn't appear to need to slow down much.
    Don't really think it's worth causing yourself agro over, unless you just like being a crusader?

    What are you expecting the taxi company to say?
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    All i can see them saying is 'We'll have a word with the driver' and that'll be the end of the matter. I should have struck whilst the iron was hot so to speak.
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  • victor ludorum
    victor ludorum Posts: 310
    will3 wrote:
    TBH although that wasn't the best bit of driving, I've seen way way worse. He saw you and gave you all the room you needed. You weren't going terrible quckly and didn't appear to need to slow down much.
    Don't really think it's worth causing yourself agro over, unless you just like being a crusader?

    What are you expecting the taxi company to say?


    That's a little harsh, but I see what you mean. The problem is that when a minicab approaches a junction in front of you you have no idea what he's going to do. He might put his foot down and pull out, turn the opposite way to the direction he's indicating (assuming he is indicating), pull a U-ey, pull out and then stop dead, or turn into a cloud of green smoke and drfit skywards. He might do these things at any point, immediately in front of you, through the middle of you, or right behind you.

    This tends to breed a certain amount of circumspection in a cyclist. The result is, as in this case, it becomes difficult for the driver to tell if you're letting them pull out or not.
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    will3 wrote:
    TBH although that wasn't the best bit of driving, I've seen way way worse. He saw you and gave you all the room you needed. You weren't going terrible quckly and didn't appear to need to slow down much.
    Don't really think it's worth causing yourself agro over, unless you just like being a crusader?

    What are you expecting the taxi company to say?

    What it is infact is inconsiderate and impatient. And we all know a little impatience canlead to a lot of trouble. :roll: As the cycle was already on the road he had priority and the taxi should have waited.

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