People who park in a marked parking space - (you know the ones with a thin dotted white outline and a double dotted white line on each end) - and they leave about a meter or upto 2m between the end (the bumper not the wheels) of their car and the end of the parking space.
I've asked a traffic warden about this and he said as long as your *wheels* are within the white box (or even on - but not over the end) you won't get a ticket, in other words if you have a large overhang at the rear of your car, it's ok to overhang the white box.
I allways make sure when I park in a white space, that my wheels are at the outermost point of the white box, if I get out and I see my wheels are a few inches inside the box, I'll get in and move the car a few more inches. Thus other people will be able to park within the box aswell. Usually a box capable of holding four cars comfortably will have some inconsiderate @#$% who has parked over a meter inside the end, then the box as a result can only hold three cars.
Someone did this right infront of me once we both wanted to park and there was room for us both on the end, he parks like 5 feet inside the end of the box! and I can't get in, I got out and called to him, and asked him politely to move his car to the end, he obliged me and I easily managed to park aswell. People are just not aware that this simple thing will stop other people from parking where they ought to be able to.
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You\'ve got me started now....
Things that get me wound up
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shame your rant included a swear word. So much easier to delete than edit. DD.
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It might be OK to park with your wheels right up to the end of the box in some places, but DON'T try it in Bath!!!
The rules there clearly say that no part of the vehicle must overhang the white lines marking out the parking area. And the wardens there take no prisoners!
cheers, Sofa Spud
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Tailgaters! OK, they might want to go over 30mph or whatever and if they get caught it's their look out - but to try and pressure other drivers to speed up just to satisfy their impatience and selfishness, how rude!!!
cheers, Sofa Spud
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You've got me started now....
Things that get me wound up
i) People who don't use their indicators (or funny flashy lights as they probably call them) and think we all have mind reading abilities. The worst ones are those who decide to take a slip road from the outside lane on a motorway / dual carriage way.
ii) People who think using an indicator gives them some God given right to do their manevour even if the space is occupied by another piece of traffic. This is a popular one on a little road from an estate in Newcastle which joins an A1 sliproad. All the time people stick their indicator and pull out onto the A1 sliproad without looking despite the road markings and sign saying 'GIVE WAY'.
iii) People who don't use mirrors or indicators but still do their manevour even if the space is occupied by another piece of traffic.
iv) Speed camera and red light camera's camera. Particular hatred is reserved for those evil average speed SPECS camera. Fortunately, to date I've never been caught.
v) 50 mph middle lane drivers - probably the same people who tow caravans for 'fun'.
vi) Lorry drivers who think it's 'fun' to overtake their mate on a steep incline because they can do 0.5-1mph faster than them. (Usually the overtakee then decides to pass the overtaker).
vii) Mackems and Mackemland (Sunderland) - the place evolution forgot.
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Sorry? and whats wrong with a red light camera?
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And what's wrong with speed cameras?
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Sofaspud,
You may be right with local bylaws the rules might vary from place to place.
But that's not really what winds me up, it's the ones who have the whole of their car well within the white box, the bumper is over a meter inside the box, these are the ones that annoy me.
If anyone has any legal info on this I'd like to know (re: why the traffic warden in south wales told me that and yet in Bath they book you for it.)
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Ah, I see! Re:- the people who leave a space at the end of a marked parking bay. I agree - I have the same problem - 2 cars taking a space where 3 could fit in. I think the problem might arise when people park in the bays when they're almost empty, and don't realise that later in the day there's a shortage of spaces. Either that or they're lazy!
Cheers, Sofa Spud
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People with no concept of hazard perception, they drive the same speed everywhere. I don't mind the ones that drive through nsls at 40 if they then slow down in 30 limits because then I know they are actually aware of their surroundings but cautious.
I was behind several dopey devils for miles on end today as they drove through 30s at 40, then onto nsl roads at 40. Then to top it all one drove on a huge wide A road with room for 4 cars across, still at 40. Needless to say I blasted past them with a flea in my ear and muttering curses about their parentage.
teabelly
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and muttering curses about their parentage<<
LMAO! Whatever do you mean teabelly?!?
That aside, those people wind me up big time. When I got my new car I took it for a nice spin on some nice roads as you do. I got stuck behind a 405 would you believe; doing, 35 on an NSL road. Unlike you teabelly, they wind me up regardless of what speed they do anywhere else (I know I should be more patient) but then we entered a 40 and he sped up to 52!
Go figure
Adam
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I can accept people who do 50 when they could be doing 60 on a single carriageway road - after all, as discussed on another thread, White Van Man is limited to 50, technically! I don't tend to get too bothered by slower drivers, after all we're all slower drivers to the ******* 3 feet from our rear bumper!
Cheers, Sofa Spud
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In Hong Kong you are not allowed to park anywhere unless it is a designated parking bay. Which means there is no need for yellow lines single or double.
Our roads would look so much nicer without all those horrible yellow lines, and people would know where they can and cannot park.
Near me there is a very wide road 30 zone, it must be 4 - 5 car widths wide, two lanes, one each direction. The road narrows as it goes under a railway bridge. There are no yellow lines. To any normal driver it is safe to park here, as long as you don't park close to the railway bridge....20m, 30m, 40m, 50m away from the bridge. The locals know, however, that the local plod like to book people for parking here. So every year (university) new people come and they park (causing no obstruction) eventually they get booked and then they stop, until the next September. Wouldn't it be so much easier if we did what they do in Hong Kong, you see a white space you can park, you see no white space you know you can't park, simple.
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Kev - you're not talking about the A6 going through Galgate are you?
Sounds very similar to where my (now) wife lived for a year while at Lancaster University.
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No, I'm talking about outside the front of the university of Glamorgan in Pontypridd.
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Even if this is not strictly true about HK, (because they do have double yellow lines there, I was told not to park anywhere but in a parking space) it would be a sensible system. To have no yellow lines, only white lines, where it was legal to park.
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Something that winds me up is :
Vehicles approaching you that pull out when "their" side of the road is blocked by a parked car or bus, thereby making you take evasive action.
When I learnt to drive (many years ago) I was taught to treat
the white line as a brick wall and only cross it when it was safe(and clear) to do so.
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Agree with most of the above, particularly not indicating at roundabouts.
Also think that tailgaters should be glorified - what better reason for driving within or below the speed limit than having one of those on your, er, tail?
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Im a bus driver and what winds me up is people that have to pull out in front of you just because your driving a bus, they seem to break their neck to pull out and do 20 mph and wonder why you end up their a*** flashing your lights on a national speed limit road and cant understand that a bus might actuallly do 50 mph not 20. I agree with others about people that dont indicate on roundabouts and wonder give you the finger or the f sign when you go and have pulled out on them even if they have the right of way its even more so in the bus as we tend to pull away slower then most vehicles.
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People who indicate the wrong way on the roundabout.
Enter at 6 o'clock, right-hand indicator flashing. Do 270 degrees, right-hand indicator still flashing & turn LEFT! Then wonder why pedestrian is running for his life.
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