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Old 12-04-2017, 11:59   #4
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Re: Think driving is bad in London?

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Originally Posted by techguyone View Post
I don't know about Moscow, but it's bad all over the UK

I think a lot is down to the almost total lack of non camera based enforcement.

The latest thing I see regularly (which almost stopped for a good 20 years or so) are people now, not just 'Amber Gambling' at lights, but going over, even 2, 3, 4 seconds after red.
Junction with the A27 up the road from me they're still running the red even after the other traffic has started moving.

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Perhaps the 'I'll drive everywhere at 40 mph no matter what' brigade
30 mph zone - 40 mph, 70 dual carriageway - 40 mph in the overtaking lane..
They're aweful, I'll include the "I'm doing 40 in the outside lane because I want to turn right 2 miles further on but I get stuck in the inside lane because I won't get a move on."

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Another oldie but goodie is people parking or abandoning their cars, anywhere possible.

Double yellows - check, on a junction -check, obstructing the footpath - check, parking on a narrow road directly opposite another parked car, blocking the road to anything wider than a car - check.
I got a WVM over the road from us: Half on the pavement, over the double yellow and facing the wrong way after dark.

No doubt he'd create merry hell when something hits it. With a car parked our side so the street is narrowed to a single car width and the speed the rat runners do combined with it being a bus route it's almost inevitable.


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Cause? God knows, probably that marvelous since the start of the century attitude of 'I'm ok, fark you Jack'

Reinforced by almost zero policing.

We don't need to go as far as Russia to see bad driving
That's a truism.
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