Doing it for the car drivers!

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I did my bit for the cars today! On my way into the city centre there is a section of 2 lane road where a long filter right takes you to the railway station. The cars in this lane can queue back all the way to a roundabout with the left lane completely clear. What can happen is that ignorant drivers, rather than queuing from further back, like to try to push in further along to save themselves a couple of minutes. But since everything is queued back anyway, they can't get in until the cars start moving. So they sit there blocking the left lane which then causes the roundabout to clog up which rapidly causes more chaos further back still.

When I bussed in, this used to really annoy me but I couldn't do anything about it. This morning, I noticed the roundabout clogged up in both lanes only to discover the left lane, whilst completely empty ahead, was blocked by a dimwit in a Peugot 206 waiting quietly to filter left into the stationery queue of cars. So, having weaved through all the chaos, I gave the Peugeot a solid whack on the side window for all the cars, buses and lorries stuck behind because of this one selfish idiot.

Of course, they may have had a heart attack and died in which case the queue would have got a bit worse - if that happened, apologies to all (except the corpse) :oops:

Still, doing my bit to unite all decent road users against the morons, irrespective of what their transport is! Anyone else done anything similar?

Porgy

This was happening at the Rotherithe tunnel roundabout in south london yesterday. One ignorant f*ckwit thought he was too good to wait and had driven right to the front of the queue in the right hand lane and tried to push in there.

Of course, noone was having it, and chaos ensued. I cycled right through the middle of it, and after I passed heard loads of car horns going off (not cos of me).

I didn;t try to help though - might have got stabbed.

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Porgy wrote:

I didn;t try to help though - might have got stabbed.

That's not so good - I think in Leeds you'd be more likely to get bricked than stabbed. Same thing in the end probably though!

CyclingBantam

Just out of interest, which road do you mean? I am racking my brains and can't work it out?

On another note, I'm loving the sudden surge in West Yorkshire comuters on here!

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BenBlyth wrote:

Just out of interest, which road do you mean? I am racking my brains and can't work it out?

On another note, I'm loving the sudden surge in West Yorkshire comuters on here!

Yeah - there's more on here than there are on bikes in Leeds

I'm talking about Wellington Street approaching the station - the roundabout is the one under the Wellington Street overbridge at the end of Kirkstall Road.

In some ways it seems pretty relaxing though mild irritations at the beginning can soon become real aggravations. However, the run along Kirkstall Road really doesn't seem that scary. I do wish they'd put a cycle lane along the last stretch in to town as it is a pain ducking in and around of the slow moving cars after the viaduct.