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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2aa97e$0$2495$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Unusual "cycle lanes" on a local road. Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:59:10 +0100 References: <5849a071-de32-4bf0-a06f-a45b8f5eb768@h17g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <6c0c3bcd-5df4-4f81-98ab-89a200a67778@x12g2000yql.googlegroups.com> Lines: 24 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6c0c3bcd-5df4-4f81-98ab-89a200a67778@x12g2000yql.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 8fb406de.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=WTegR7IA33QgQjb6@h5PNV0g@SS;SF6nWR9OH0:RnENTil^C9_LA;ZW`:ITG5aA:cWoL1RM_>0[?Z X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2557 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:847896

On 22/07/2011 17:50, Simon Mason wrote: > This comment seem to agree with my experience of selfish drivers. > > “I regularly drive down this road, and get sick of cars coming right > up behind me trying to get past when I am doing the 40mph speed limit. > Almost every time I drive along this road I get impatient drivers > behind me, then as soon as I get to the 20mph limit in Wawne they > overtake well over the speed limit.”

Or, more accurately, "I regularly drive down this road at an indicated 35mph, i.e. just over an actual 30mph. I get sick of people daring to come up behind me because they're going at a real 40mph, i.e. *faster than me*, and it serves them right that they're then stuck there behind me.  I feel really smug and self-righteous once I've accumulated a tail of 6 or more cars, but when someone dares to overtake me (which is of course illegal and reckless in all circumstances), I just can't stand it, even though it doesn't affect me in the slightest."

Live and let live. If another driver wants to go faster than you then it's not up to you to try to impose your philosophy on them. Drivers who resent anyone overtaking them (sometimes even on multi-lane roads, hence their lane-hogging) have a major attitude problem which needs sorting. Such people need to learn to mind their own business and stop trying to control everyone else, not just on the roads but in general.