Tuesday 11 Dec, 2007 - 15:35pm |
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Because I live in Dublin and work in Naas, I have to travel on the (three lane) Naas road every morning (against the traffic mind you). It was always irritating to be stuck doing 80 behind somebody in the outer lane who refused to pull in while the inside lane does 85.
However the middle lane hoggers are worse, much worse. I do try to keep to the rules of the road which means staying in the left lane unless I need to overtake and once I have overtaken, I move back in.
I regularly come across a line of cars in the middle lane doing 90 with no cars whatsoever in the left lane. Am I meant to swerve across three lanes in order to overtake legally? Am I meant to stay where I am because they happen to be in the wrong place and then I blithely sail on past them on the left? Who do you think the guards will be pulling over if they happen to see this?
It is very common (especially when inbound in the evening) to see the right lane being choc a bloc with cars doing 95, then you will have about half that number of cars hogging the middle lane at 90.00001 and finally you get the people doing the right thing and driving in the left lane at 90. Every car trying to get past in the outside lane is jammed up each others' hole so if somebody brakes, there's going to be a huge pileup. It's damn dangerous and the reason it happens is because Irish drivers seem allergic to the notion of driving in the left-most lane unless you're overtaking.
If the guards make a high profile campaign to pull over lane hoggers on the Naas road lasting one week, people will stop doing it forever! Instead they are too busy clocking people doing 105!
It's not limited to Ireland, you have the same numpties hogging the middle lane in the UK.
Even if there are just two lanes, the numpty will drive in the overtaking lane, even though there are no cars at all in the slower lane.
And they are defiant. They will not pull in when you're behind them. You're left with two choices. Continue to drive behind and fume or do an illegal undertake....
Grrrrrrrrrr
Hey Col, such is life. These useless drivers (if driver is what they can be called) should be challenged by the traffic corps and be fined for being STUPID.
Years ago my dad was challenged by a copper when he was 67 years of age (not the copper, my dad was 67)and asked about the speed he was NOT traveling at, in other words he was traveling To SLOW. At least my dad had the sense to give up driving after that.
Its a shame that the traffic corp do not take a similar approach with drivers instead of always being out to catch the speedsters (not that I condone speeding - I DO NOT), please concentrate on some of the other road and accident hazards, and address these issues AS WELL as the SPEEDSTERS.
