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staff4ord

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Yes I know stafford has a hell of a lot of traffic lights and I guess there is nothing we can do about it as the council seem hell bent on just installing new ones. But we all have a part to play in ensuring that the traffic flows freely.
I have been across town today and due to the heavy traffic it was a nightmare. But I noticed that around Queensway the traffic was made far worse by the poor quality of driving, by the blocking of the yellow boxes. There were several time the lights went through the sequence before any one moved, because some muppet in a 4x4 was blocking the yellow box. Think people you just might make it easier for us all.
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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A compulsory driving test every 8 years might go someway toward considerate defensive driving

But it still involves people and if you are not regularly exposed to a large cross section of your fellow man you might forget that in a high percentage of motor vehicles sit proles/chavs/daily mail readers and territorial minutea obsessives

God Save the King
 
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John Marwood said:
A compulsory driving test every 8 years might go someway toward considerate defensive driving
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you're assuming that people drive poorly due to lack of ability and/or skill.. i dare say the ones that frustrate us the most are fully aware of what they are doing, and would carry on regardless..
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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db said:
John Marwood said:
A compulsory driving test every 8 years might go someway toward considerate defensive driving
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you're assuming that people drive poorly due to lack of ability and/or skill.. i dare say the ones that frustrate us the most are fully aware of what they are doing, and would carry on regardless..
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I believe that you are correct - I base this on the fact the coppers don't seem that bothered by yellow paint these days...
 
Glam

Glam

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Went Sainsburys this evening with the youngest,parked up in the bus stop outside was a policeman in a panda car looked like he was stuffing his fizzogg with a butty. If that had been you or me we'dve got a ticket!
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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staff4ord said:
Yes I know stafford has a hell of a lot of traffic lights and I guess there is nothing we can do about it as the council seem hell bent on just installing new ones. But we all have a part to play in ensuring that the traffic flows freely.
I have been across town today and due to the heavy traffic it was a nightmare. But I noticed that around Queensway the traffic was made far worse by the poor quality of driving, by the blocking of the yellow boxes. There were several time the lights went through the sequence before any one moved, because some muppet in a 4x4 was blocking the yellow box. Think people you just might make it easier for us all.
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I thought about putting a post on about this yesterday as well.

After going to Comet, I left the car parked there and walked into town. Walking back, the Queensway island was more or less gridlocked and the traffic going right back past Queensville Bridge. All due to people going through the lights and sitting on the yellow boxes. Some were even going through on red when the traffic in front moved a couple of foot. (And to that 'cow' in the big black monster of a thing who started moving forwards & went through on red when I was crossing on the pelicans and nearly ran me over :grr: ).

If people drove with a bit of consideration for other road users and left a gap to let others get through to their lanes, most of the problems wouldn't be occuring there.

Also saw a couple of cars sat in the yellow box on Grapes corner, resulting in chaos a bit earlier. Not made any better when,at the same time, a bloke parks his car on double yellow lines on the pelican crossing by that Fireplace shop and walks across the road to The Apollo area !

Doesn't seem like traffic laws exist anymore from what I observed yesterday.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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In the old days it was allowable to enter a box junction when your exit was unavailable if you were turning right and your exit was blocked by oncoming traffic.

I wonder if this is still the case?.


Edit:- It would seem so.
Highway Code said:
Box junctions. These have criss-cross yellow lines painted on the road (see 'Road markings'). You MUST NOT enter the box until your exit road or lane is clear. However, you may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic, or by other vehicles waiting to turn right. At signalled roundabouts you MUST NOT enter the box unless you can cross over it completely without stopping.
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Withnail

Withnail

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Gramaisc said:
In the old days it was allowable to enter a box junction when your exit was unavailable if you were turning right and your exit was blocked by oncoming traffic.
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This was one of the questions that Alexei Sayle, as a vampire posing as a driving instuctor, got correct in the Young Ones.

He then gave the game away when explaining the rules regarding hump-backed bridges.

Apropos of nothing.
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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Withnail said:
Gramaisc said:
In the old days it was allowable to enter a box junction when your exit was unavailable if you were turning right and your exit was blocked by oncoming traffic.
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This was one of the questions that Alexei Sayle, as a vampire posing as a driving instuctor, got correct in the Young Ones.

He then gave the game away when explaining the rules regarding hump-backed bridges.

Apropos of nothing.
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Thank u for sharing with the class
 
Withnail

Withnail

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U r quite welcome.

For some reason this impressed itself into my mind so thoroughly that my knowledge of the rule regarding box junctions has not diminished over time as it appears to have done with so many other drivers.

I don't wish to make light of the suffering of others - indeed the main reason i cycle is my lack of tolerance when i find myself
Behind the wheel
Of a large automobile.

Such snarl ups are no obstacle to two-wheelers.
 
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gilesjuk

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There's just so many things people do wrong these days. It used to be amber gambler, it's red gambler now.

And don't get me started on those people who think a bus stop pull in is a great place to stop and talk on the mobile phone.
 
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