26-04-2022, 11:17 AM
A bugbear of mine is cars weaving in and out of lanes on motorways. It's particularly annoying when they who go across two or three lanes at the last minute to get to the inner-most lane to exit the motorway. Another one is where someone moves into the lane for exiting in order to undercut traffic before re-joining the main lanes of the motorway.
The above reminds me of equally dangerous and annoying behaviour at approach roads coming towards a junction with a motorway. I have seen this quite a few times on the green route road between Sandyford and the M50 Ballinteer/Dundrum junction. There are two lanes as you approach the junction. The left is for going straight towards the M50 and the second is for going straight as well (two lanes to enter the M50) or for turning right into a roundabout for Rathfarnham/Ballinteer/Dundrum. What I see is people turning right from the left hand side. Dangerous on two grounds: (1) someone could be going straight on from the right lane, (2) once you exit right off the approach road, there are two lanes and you will have your left access blocked by the idiot who used the wrong lane. This in turn reminds me of people who use the wrong lanes at roundabouts. It's very annoying if you try to do the right thing and some idiot nearly runs in to you, or you have to let them through.
While I am at it and probably at the other end of the scale, it is annoying to see cars hogging an overtaking lane on a motorway but not overtaking. Why can't they stay in the normal/slowest lane? Is it lack of understanding of how motorways work in that case?
The above reminds me of equally dangerous and annoying behaviour at approach roads coming towards a junction with a motorway. I have seen this quite a few times on the green route road between Sandyford and the M50 Ballinteer/Dundrum junction. There are two lanes as you approach the junction. The left is for going straight towards the M50 and the second is for going straight as well (two lanes to enter the M50) or for turning right into a roundabout for Rathfarnham/Ballinteer/Dundrum. What I see is people turning right from the left hand side. Dangerous on two grounds: (1) someone could be going straight on from the right lane, (2) once you exit right off the approach road, there are two lanes and you will have your left access blocked by the idiot who used the wrong lane. This in turn reminds me of people who use the wrong lanes at roundabouts. It's very annoying if you try to do the right thing and some idiot nearly runs in to you, or you have to let them through.
While I am at it and probably at the other end of the scale, it is annoying to see cars hogging an overtaking lane on a motorway but not overtaking. Why can't they stay in the normal/slowest lane? Is it lack of understanding of how motorways work in that case?