Bad Driving thread

Zenbaas said:
In JHB they are used for normal intersections all over where there are no dedicated bus lanes at all. What would the reasoning be then? The areas with ReaVaja have dedicated signs on the traffic lights themselves.
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Probably safety reasons then. This large intersection has many lanes, and people might take a chance potentially causing a collision. A dedicated green arrow reduced the chances of idiots taking chances.

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genetic said:
Probably safety reasons then. This large intersection has many lanes, and people might take a chance potentially causing a collision. A dedicated green arrow reduced the chances of idiots taking chances.

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I guess you're right. It's to protect the ones who shouldn't have licenses in the first place. (That said it's also used on very small intersections with single turning lanes as well)
 
And to allow people who want to turn right a change to go over in more than small amounts of 2 at a time, because those coming from the front keep steaming over the yellow light as well.
 
So, the office park where I work has its entrance and exit on a major road in Sandton. There is a robot there, but it is not working due to road works.

What do people do? They drive right into the intersection and block it so that we cannot get out of the office. Instead of waiting for the intersection to become clear, these useless selfish parasites think that blocking the intersection is going to reduce the amount of time it takes them to get home by 0.0001s. Protip - it won't. The bottleneck is not this robot, its further up.

And what makes it worse is that I push my way through this traffic, and while doing so, this lady in her mini gives me the evil eye, like how dare I make her wait 2 seconds before moving forward to continue to block the intersection? Tannie, you not supposed to be there in the first place.

If traffic isn't blocked like that, you have people just going straight through the intersection at 80km/h.
 
Ancalagon said:
So, the office park where I work has its entrance and exit on a major road in Sandton. There is a robot there, but it is not working due to road works.

What do people do? They drive right into the intersection and block it so that we cannot get out of the office. Instead of waiting for the intersection to become clear, these useless selfish parasites think that blocking the intersection is going to reduce the amount of time it takes them to get home by 0.0001s. Protip - it won't. The bottleneck is not this robot, its further up.

And what makes it worse is that I push my way through this traffic, and while doing so, this lady in her mini gives me the evil eye, like how dare I make her wait 2 seconds before moving forward to continue to block the intersection? Tannie, you not supposed to be there in the first place.

If traffic isn't blocked like that, you have people just going straight through the intersection at 80km/h.
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We got those idiots here in PTA as well. There's a robot near TUKS vet campus & the drivers flatly ignore it. Even in Red - they drive at 80km/h. The poor pedestrians always have to run across that road - even when its green for them to pass :(
 
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Zenbaas said:
In JHB they are used for normal intersections all over where there are no dedicated bus lanes at all. What would the reasoning be then? The areas with ReaVaja have dedicated signs on the traffic lights themselves.
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This is a 90 km/h zone and probably why they have a dedicated turning traffic light.
 
I'm still getting used to the PTA Areyeng dedicated traffic lights! They confuse me all the time!
 
Ancalagon said:
So, the office park where I work has its entrance and exit on a major road in Sandton. There is a robot there, but it is not working due to road works.

What do people do? They drive right into the intersection and block it so that we cannot get out of the office. Instead of waiting for the intersection to become clear, these useless selfish parasites think that blocking the intersection is going to reduce the amount of time it takes them to get home by 0.0001s. Protip - it won't. The bottleneck is not this robot, its further up.

And what makes it worse is that I push my way through this traffic, and while doing so, this lady in her mini gives me the evil eye, like how dare I make her wait 2 seconds before moving forward to continue to block the intersection? Tannie, you not supposed to be there in the first place.

If traffic isn't blocked like that, you have people just going straight through the intersection at 80km/h.
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Oh how I love it when people do this.

I make a point to never block an intersection - no matter how much people behind me hoot and carry on.
 
Same. I never drive into an intersection unless I know there is space for me on the other side so that I don't impede the traffic.

Which is why it kills me when people drive into the intersection and stop right in front of me with the light about to change and then just throw up their hand in the air when I hoot as If they had nothing to do with it in the first place. Idiots.
 
Zenbaas said:
Same. I never drive into an intersection unless I know there is space for me on the other side so that I don't impede the traffic.

Which is why it kills me when people drive into the intersection and stop right in front of me with the light about to change and then just throw up their hand in the air when I hoot as If they had nothing to do with it in the first place. Idiots.
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I generally then intimidate the fek out of people like that by driving right up close to the side of their vehicles, or if the traffic flow allows it I drive around them....
 
ToxicBunny said:
I generally then intimidate the fek out of people like that by driving right up close to the side of their vehicles, or if the traffic flow allows it I drive around them....
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I normally catch them as the light turns green(for me) with them driving into the intersection with the light red. I drive ahead of them forcing them to stop somewhere in the middle of the road while we drive around them. It's quite entertaining actually.
 
[video=youtube_share;J5wu-XFVtvc]http://youtu.be/J5wu-XFVtvc[/video]
Blake Brothers Painters ignoring a stop street.
 
[video=youtube_share;m6Z4262CZiY]http://youtu.be/m6Z4262CZiY[/video]
Towing at almost 120km/h on the N7.
 
[video=youtube_share;vfEY_JByH9U]http://youtu.be/vfEY_JByH9U[/video]
This person almost crashed into me going the wrong way in a circle.
 
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