Bad Drivers & Bad Road Design In Perth

[ossie_21]

This is a good whinging thread haha .

Agree with that merging thing, cars love to get in front if they are side by side, and even if the car in front of both is on their side, they will still speed up & screw up the rotation. Watch Friday for this part, the way Chris Tucker describes rotation sums it up perfectly.

Anyway, another thing that pisses me off is people on a packed freeway who will still change lanes without much caution 10 times, getting as far ahead as possible, when really they do that & they only end up 5 cars in front all the way up the freeway. I see this most days, and at Hepburn ave where it goes to from 3 to 2 lanes, & the 2 left lanes merge, if they are in that lane & I am the right I just pass them & smile = . They are all rush rush rush, when they might make a couple of minutes up at the very most, when all they need to do is take care & not crash into someone!!!!

Okay that's enough outta me.

[DanR33]

This whole merge thing in Perth irritates me. In sydney, when two lanes goes into one, the left lane just simply ends and it is the responsibility of the slower drivers in the left lane to get across to the right lane. It works so much better than giving way. One lane has right of way so people in the left lane have to give way. This would never work in Perth tho as slow drivers pretty much always sit in the right lane.

As for merging here I think ban 4WD's and itll go smoothly. They've all got the attitude that bigger cars get right of way. Some person on the weekend asked if I wanted to enter a draw to win a pajero and I said to them point blank - "No thanks I dont want a child killer". Actually I am now contemplating starting a anti-4WD rant now.

[ossie_21]

Speaking of bad drivers, this morning some numbnut towing a in a ford towing a trailer dosen't even know you give way to the right at roundabouts, if it wasn't for turbo sized brakes I would have hit him. Could not believe it when it happened.

I came up to the roundabout, saw a few cars on my left slowing down for it, looked right, saw no one was coming so kept going through, when I was just at the beginning of the turn I noticed this twat hadn't even seen me, or bothered to slow down all that much, so I braked hard, and there couldn't have been much gap between my front bar & his trailer. To make matters worse, this is the roundabout on Gnangara Rd, which has 2 lanes, one to turn right & one to go straight. He was in the left, and then decided he had to go right.

All I could think about was this thread, some people are just bad drivers, full stop. Part of me wanted to follow him, stop him & tell him how many things he did wrong, not bad for a 19 year old when this guy was about 50.

<does happy dance>

[Josh]

Yep as I explained before - the exact same thing happened to me at a roundabout... except I did follow him - but he turned out to be a huge c**t!!

See us young guns know some of the rules...

[DanR33]

Hows this for a bad driver. The other day I was behind someone who took off slow at lights so I overtook them in the left hand lane before it merged into one. He then put his high beams on me so i slammed on my brakes. He grabbed something in his car and held it up.

He was an OFF DUTY POLICE OFFICER and he was showing his badge! He then tail gated me and when it split into two lanes again he sped up beside me and wound down his window and started shouting at me. He had his wife in the passanger seat and kids in the back so I proceeded to stick my finger up and yell "your off duty buddy f#$% off!". Mind you he was in the right lane doing this and cars behind him were beeping and stuff. He pulled in front of me and at the next set of lights i pulled out my wallet and showed it to him and yelled out "I got a wallet too you tough c#$%".

What a wanker honestly. I thought cops were suppose to be patient and stuff. Man yelling at me infront of his family. I reckon I couldve bashed him easy. A badge doesnt give u the right to road rage. He was on a power trip. Wow hes an off duty police officer. He can drive like a dickhead and not be overtaken.

[GWP021]

ahh the cop rant i love it when you see the fuzz driving 10 below and 5-6 cars lined up behind to scared to pass so i move into the right lane head up to just below and give the boys in blue a nod and smile as i roll past

note i have never been pulled over doing this not in the sky or the xr6t or the work ute that is a work order in the making

[FLYIN_HiGh]

yeh i feel all of ur pains about perth drivers. i have a bit of a drive to work and back each day and the amount of shitty drivers out there!! ffs it's absolute bullsh%t. i have encountered all of the problems listed above.

otherone that i dont think was meantion was at sets of lites when u get ppl that pull rite up on ur ass. like half a metre off ur bumper, u think to urself it's not like i'm sitten in an old rust bucket or sumfin, if i roll back and hit u, ur gonna wish u didnt sit up me ass. i just launch with bitta wheel spin and spray rubber on there bonnet haha.

i receive/give the finger to drivers nearly everyday and its gettin annoying aye. i dunno if they think cos ur car is loud that its just goin fast or wat, cos just drivin down the street doin the speed limit ppl stare at u goin past shackin there head and i'm like wtf ?? i'm not doin anything wrong.

i have heaps of bad storys to tell but i should prolly get back and do some work. i sat here and read all of ur posts on this thread and it made me laugh. glad that i'm not the only person that thinks perths layouts and drivers are f#@ked!

[Josh]

People on suburban roads dislike my car... expecially when they are trying to sleep... and this is when I'm doing the speed limit... I know what you mean, they stare at you...

[stR33ter]

I hear you josh

got this knob down the road from my house

i have to pass him to get home every time the f#%ker runs out in front of me like hes going pick a fight or something

his neighbour has four kids all drive holdens and fords with aftermarket cans on them but does nuthin to them

stupid F*^%k

i have to drive roe hyway every day the number of ppl doing upto 20 under in the right lane is unbelivable

they spend more time lookin back at you in there mirror than lookin where there going

[Josh]

Yeh my street isn't so bad, but driving to my mates place I have to go past this cops place and he looks like shrek and is probably about half as smart too.. I always stare and laugh at him.. He drives a falcon too...

[DanR33]

i have to drive roe hyway every day the number of ppl doing upto 20 under in the right lane is unbelivable

they spend more time lookin back at you in there mirror than lookin where there going

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

They look back at you? One of my major problems with Perth drivers is they never check their rear vision mirror! only care about themselves getting infront of the slow truck and what not...

[stR33ter]

They look back at you? One of my major problems with Perth drivers is they never check their rear vision mirror! only care about themselves getting infront of the slow truck and what not...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

thats when changin lanes lol

once there there its like where the f#$%k did you come from get off my arse

[FLYIN_HiGh]

Yeh stR33ter, i hear ya bout Roe Hwy. i drive that strip everyday from midland to south street and the amount of cockheads aye.

thats usually where all the road rage happens. if ppl thought about others instead of just themselves while on the road the traffic would flow alot quicker and smoother!

my old man always said to me, it's not u u gotta worry about on the roads, it's every other dickhead.

and trucks who like to sit side by side each other doin 90 and have cars banked for k's behind em, like wtf, talk to the c%$t on ur CB or sumfin pull past him and get in ur f@!kin left lane!!

LEFT LANE = truck lane or slow ppl lane.

if ur in the right hand lane, and someone is sitten on ur ass, if u didnt already no, it means move the f*#k out of my way!

(even if u are doin the speed limit, it still means move!) haha

[DanR33]

Australia should addopt one californian road rule. If you are driving on a road, even with one lane and there is five or more cars banked up behind you, you must pull over and let them past. This is actually the law there. If you dont do it you can be booked. It would definitely put a stop to several dozen cars being banked up behind one idiot doing 70 in a 90 zone.

They may actually then realise that the speed limit doesnt mean u can do any speed lower than it even if you are crawling but actually have to do close to that limit.

[Josh]

Damn right!!

[stR33ter]

THAT FKN ROE HYWAY - St STREET IS A JOKE

I GO THE OTHER WAY (CANNINGVALE - KEWDALE IN MORNING)

THE NUMBER OF DICKHEADS THAT RUN THE LEFT LANE TO GET BY TRAFFIC THEN EITHER BLOCK THE LANE CAUSE THEY CANT GET IN

(SOME OTHER F/WIT WHO DID THE SAME THING BLOCKIN THEM) JUST SIT THERE THINKIN THEY DOING NUTHIN WRONG AND THEY GIVE U EVILS OR THE FINGER LIKE YOUR DOING THE WRONG THING

I FU$%^N HATE THAT

[FLYIN_HiGh]

yeh man. not kool aye!

few times i've boosted up the emergency lane to pass them cos they just dont get it.

it's in the mornin and i take it most ppl are on there way to work and u think they wanna do the speed limit so they dont get there late. frustrating as f$#k

[DanR33]

idiot this morning doing 70 in a 80 zone and dropped down to 55 coz there was one of those surveying things on the side of the road. "that sure looks like a speed camera - better go 25 under" friggin knob jockey.

[Josh]

This is strange to say but the last few speed cameras I have gone thru haven't gone off... and I know I was over.. oh well, I'm not complaining

I decided to be a good citizen on the way to work today and stayed at the speed limit in the left lane, suprising how many people will just sit there in the right hand lane... Makes me wish I had an UZI so I could drive by those fools...

[FLYIN_HiGh]

hahaha