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Oct. 6th, 2005 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athersgeoI've just found something more profoundly disturbing than a car driver who hasn't got the first idea how wide their car is: An articulated lorry driver with no clue how wide his wagon is.
That is the only explanation I can give for the painfulness of my commute this morning. Courtesy of a cyclist using a zebra crossing (and I don't mean they were wheeling their bike across it - I'd be less annoyed about that), I missed my shot at overtaking a slow moving articulated lorry and consequently, ended up stuck behind him. And stuck doing no more than 15 mph. There wasn't a massive queue ahead (before anyone things I have x-ray vision, the road bends and at various stages, you can see what's in front of slow moving large vehicles), there was only one cyclist he struggled to overtake (we got down to a speed that was actually off the dial on my speedo at that point)...and the road we were travelling along? Is (even allowing for the bus lane and parked cars) three lanes wide (one and a half in each direction).
*headdesk**headdesk**headdesk*
And then - lucky me - he turned right at the same lights I turn right at. Now, THAT road IS narrow. You have parked cars either side and it is a bit of a squeeze. But nowhere near as much of a squeeze as this guy made it seem (having followed articulated lorries along it on more than one occasion, most of whom can manage the dizzy heights of 25mph and more).
Fortunately for my sanity (and the general prospects of actually travelling along Lodge Causeway at all) he turned right about a quarter of a mile along the road and in the same time as it had taken me to do that quarter of a mile, I drove the rest of Lodge Causeway and pulled into my office car park (which is just over half a mile).
May my drive home be better.
That is the only explanation I can give for the painfulness of my commute this morning. Courtesy of a cyclist using a zebra crossing (and I don't mean they were wheeling their bike across it - I'd be less annoyed about that), I missed my shot at overtaking a slow moving articulated lorry and consequently, ended up stuck behind him. And stuck doing no more than 15 mph. There wasn't a massive queue ahead (before anyone things I have x-ray vision, the road bends and at various stages, you can see what's in front of slow moving large vehicles), there was only one cyclist he struggled to overtake (we got down to a speed that was actually off the dial on my speedo at that point)...and the road we were travelling along? Is (even allowing for the bus lane and parked cars) three lanes wide (one and a half in each direction).
*headdesk**headdesk**headdesk*
And then - lucky me - he turned right at the same lights I turn right at. Now, THAT road IS narrow. You have parked cars either side and it is a bit of a squeeze. But nowhere near as much of a squeeze as this guy made it seem (having followed articulated lorries along it on more than one occasion, most of whom can manage the dizzy heights of 25mph and more).
Fortunately for my sanity (and the general prospects of actually travelling along Lodge Causeway at all) he turned right about a quarter of a mile along the road and in the same time as it had taken me to do that quarter of a mile, I drove the rest of Lodge Causeway and pulled into my office car park (which is just over half a mile).
May my drive home be better.
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Date: 2005-10-06 07:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-06 08:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-06 12:05 pm (UTC)Ah well, it's better than the days when I get stuck behind a milk float along that stretch!
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Date: 2005-10-06 08:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-06 01:59 pm (UTC)