box junctions

June 1st, 2007 catnip

am i the only person in kings heath who knows how to use a box junction? i.e. do not enter unless your exit is clear EXCEPT WHEN TURNING RIGHT!!!

every morning I turn right from kings heath high street into vicarage road and 9 out of 10 people who are turning right do not use the box junction correctly and hover gingerly outside of it like scared mice. even if I am at the front of the queue and correctly move to the middle of the box junction ready to turn right, the people behind me do not even follow me and stay behind the line.

now admittedly their actions (or inactions) are not particularly dangerous, it just annoys the hell out of me and I wonder how many other highway rules they don’t fully understand or are too scared to implement.

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emergency vehicles

March 22nd, 2007 catnip

I’m driving to work and an ambulance is coming up behind me, so I pull over to let it past and so do a number of other vehicles in front of it. After it has gone past, I go to pull straight out again and find I can’t because some of the other idiots behind me have decided to seize this opportunity to take over me. I think this is the height of bad manners. We have all had to pull over for an emergency, we all need to pull out again to be on our own, fortunately emergency-free, merry ways. You’d think the fact that someone nearby needed an ambulance would make these people count their blessings and be considerate to fellow road users, but no, it seems that someone else’s misfortune is their gain.

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