Cyclists of Nottingham *Motorist Rant*

shouldbeinbed

Chapeau to you. how you survive is a miracle.

I've driven through the place for the first (and last) time today and it was the most bizarre and terrifying drive of my life.

I can only assume that the city centre & 1 way system was designed by a blind drunk, anti traveller on a particularly angry day and this has provoked the local motorists into an attitude of I'm going to drive like a sociopath who has never been in a car before and is morbidly afraid of mirrors, indicators and being in the right lane.

more deranged fucknuts in close proximity than a Big Brother audition.


*needed to get that off my chest*

morstar

I know what you mean about the one way. I lived in Nottingham for nearly 30 years, knew the city centre and the one way system inside out. Within two years of leaving I was having difficulty with the changes. Nowadays, 7 years gone and I regularly get stuck when we visit family. I know where I am but have no idea how to get where I need to.
Can't entirely agree about the driving though. I found it surprisingly aggressive when I moved up to the north west from Nottingham.

shouldbeinbed

morstar wrote:

Can't entirely agree about the driving though. I found it surprisingly aggressive when I moved up to the north west from Nottingham.

:shock: Gimme Deansgate and Oldham Road any day (and I never thought I'd say that)

freehub

shouldbeinbed wrote:

morstar wrote:

Can't entirely agree about the driving though. I found it surprisingly aggressive when I moved up to the north west from Nottingham.

:shock: Gimme Deansgate and Oldham Road any day (and I never thought I'd say that)

The most hazardous part in Mcr is the Curry Mile, far far worse than Deansgate or Oldham road.

chriscl

Nottingham's roads (and many of the drivers) are terrible.

I commute from just outside the city every day (six mile commute) and the number of near misses I've had with cars has ceased to be funny.

Just last week, waiting in a queue of traffic behind a van, who, for some reason, decided he was going to *reverse* in to my front wheel.

Cue me banging on the back of the van and asking him what he was doing, and if he knew how to use his mirrors!

One of my workmates got knocked off his bike on the embankment (Nottingham residents will know where that is) by a woman in a Focus who just pulled out from the kerb without looking.

The quality of the road surfaces is woeful too - I ride past the Nottinghamshire County Council offices every day, and there are a series of potholes in that stretch of the road that have been there for at least two years - and they've been reported too!

Skeltron

I concur with the most hazardous road in Manchester being the curry mile. People just seem incapable of driving / parking properly down there.

poppit

Hasn't Nottingham just been named as the most cycle friendly city in England!

Ben6899

A girl I used to see was once chased and rammed by another driver while going about her daily business on the Nottingham ring road. F***ing nutjob.

shouldbeinbed

freehub wrote:

shouldbeinbed wrote:

morstar wrote:

Can't entirely agree about the driving though. I found it surprisingly aggressive when I moved up to the north west from Nottingham.

:shock: Gimme Deansgate and Oldham Road any day (and I never thought I'd say that)

The most hazardous part in Mcr is the Curry Mile, far far worse than Deansgate or Oldham road.

I don't ride it much myself anymore, I usually swoop down on EBC or the Bike Doctor from Clayton way now but I used to live off Hathersage Road and be down to Didsbury a lot, Curry Mile was always a bit micey but predictably so, ride it a few times and you know where the funny kinks and sweve to avoid em bits are- Oldham Road is manic because its so random - I've was nearly been taken out recently by a barmpot coming onto the wrong carriageway round an island to overtake a bus pulling away from a red light.

I bet he came from Nottingham :evil:

jugglingphil

Hasn't Nottingham just been named as the most cycle friendly city in England!

No not the most cycle friend city in England, but the least car dependant city.

The criteria they used somehow favoured Nottingham with it's council run bus and tram service.

bicyclepirate

in our defence the OP did drive through the city on return to uni weekend, when load of students are being driven around by thier parents who only visit twice a year. I bet he thinks that nottingham supermarkets have no food in them to.

However, there are loads of things wrong with nottingham's cycle infrastructure. . .

Scrumple

Boring -

you could say that about anywhere.

Irrelevant blather.

shouldbeinbed

bicyclepirate wrote:

in our defence the OP did drive through the city on return to uni weekend, when load of students are being driven around by thier parents who only visit twice a year. I bet he thinks that nottingham supermarkets have no food in them to.

However, there are loads of things wrong with nottingham's cycle infrastructure. . .

yeah cos theres no students in Manchester

Anonymous

Scrumple wrote:

you could say that about anywhere.

+1

It seems any town/city centre is designed to be as confusing as possible to people who don't know it, whilst making it a great race track for the local chavs and white van men.