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Information Release.

Due to the nature of the quality of driving in England the Department of Transport has now devised a new scheme in order to identify poor drivers and give good drivers the opportunity to recognise them whilst driving. For this reason as from the middle of May 2006 those drivers who are found to be driving badly which includes:

- overtaking in dangerous places;
- hovering within one inch of the car in front;
- stopping sharply;
- speeding in residential areas;
- pulling out without indication;
- performing U turns inappropriately in busy high streets;
- under taking on motorways and
- taking up more than one lane in multi lane roads,

These drivers will be issued with flags, white with a red cross, signifying their inability to drive properly. These flags must be clipped to a door of the car and be visible to all other drivers and pedestrians. Those drivers who have shown particularly poor driving skills will have to display a flag on each side of the car to indicate their greater lack of skill and general lower intelligence mindset to the general public. Please circulate this to as many other motorists as you can so that drivers and pedestrians will be aware of the meaning of these flags. Department of Transport
 
LOL- they'll hunt you down and find you for that one :thumbs:
 
IanC_UK said:
you missed out C.L.O.C (centre lane owners club) members too ;)
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ooooooohh they make me the maddest. :bang:
 
I'm guilty of that one - most of the time because the nearside lane is so wrecked by HGV's that it's a pain to drive on. Avoids all the debris from disintegrating tyres from Polish lorries as well.
If you drive at 80 what's the problem? Any faster and you're breaking the speed limit by more than is considered acceptable anyway. There is another overtaking lane available you know...
Driving in the middle lane at 60 - that's another matter...
 
Both lanes are for overtaking, whatever your speed ;) . One that really winds me up as well. We could all travel everywhere so much quicker if people used lane discipline. Why the goverment doesn't make some Ads up for TV to make this clear to people I don't know.......we could see huge improvements in no time. NO, lets spend Billions building more lanes to hog instead ;)
 
Its worse because people aren't taught how to use the lanes correctly, as you say if there was an Ad campaign or TV thing to inform people, but if people don't know it causes a problem whether they do 60 or 80 or 200.

I didn't know till i read in a forum, plus can you imagine the tailbacks if we all sat in the first lane.
 
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I just love it when people try to lecture me on road ettiquette - as if 98% of people were thoroughly versed in the highway code and were polite and considerate drivers all of the time.
I can honestly say that the drivers in Kabul are more considerate than in the UK (and that's from driving in non-military vehicles, before you all jump on me for being in armed convoys) - we as a Nation of Car-Drivers are the least polite, most obstructive bunch of See-You-Next-Tuesdays I've ever encountered in all my travels world-wide.
Even the French are more considerate than we are...the FRENCH! I drive in Paris fairly often inside the Peripherique and if you know where you're going and observe Continental Priorities, it's fine, even the fabulous Arc De Triomphe roundabout.
English (Scots drivers are far more laid-back for some reason...) drivers hog lanes, refuse to let people out into slow-moving traffic, refuse to let other drivers merge when lanes converge and are generally selfish and loutish.
I drive wherever I feel the need to in order to avoid cretins changing lanes without indicating and doing generally dumb stuff whenever I'm near them.
 
ooooh, don't get me started.......

I live in one of the worst cities for congestion in the Uk, it's only small but at peak hours it's actually quicker to walk across town than it is to drive, (unless kellie's driving and she's lived here for 30 odd years and knows every single rat-run like the back of her hand, ignores speed limits and squeezes the micra through gaps that make me clench my butt cheeks!) Mostly because of peoples stupidity.......

Things that would make life easier....

1) Idiots who insist on bringing caravans onto a road system designed in the middle ages.

2) people who can't seem to understand the principle of the yellow box. DON'T STOP ON IT! HOW DIFFICULT CAN IT BE? IT'S BRIGHT YELLOW FOR ****S SAKE!

3) Disabled drivers, ok so you've got a disabled badge that means you can park on double yellow lines, please use some common sense and don't block narrow roads completely for 45 minutes!

4) Councillors and route planners. Don't use ridiculous double jointed super buses to pick up students from the centre of town! What's wrong with double deckers?

5) Groups of foreign tourists. Don't stand in the middle of the effin road takin pictures of our historical buildings!





Final point of illustration. I nearly ploughed into a tourist the other day because he decided to leap out into a busy road and hold up his hand in an effort to stop the traffic to allow 30 tourists to cross the road safely. Fair point you may think, until you realise there is a perfectly serviceable and active pedestrian crossing 10 yds behind him. AAAAAAAARRRRRRGH!
 
It's not all bad though, I've never driven in a place that's so good for people letting you out of side roads etc. Just got to remember to pass on the love ;)
 
Arkady said:
Scots drivers are far more laid-back for some reason...
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I think we're more laid back generally. I remember a good few years ago when there was a new building development proposed on the south side of INverness.

A developer came up from London and was proposing houses which were at least double the value of anything else in the town, and lots of them. At one of the meetings the project manager was getting particularly wound up about the time it was taking for the builder to get things done, especially as he couldn't get any firm committment to completion dates for various reasons.

Eventually he blew his top and shouted " It's just manyana, manyana with you lot"

To which the builder replied:

"Not at all sir, we've nothing as important as that" :D
 
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