To realise very few people care about road rules or the Highway Code any more

You need to do one or the other.

If everyone has got into the lane they need early, it will move, albeit slowly, so just join it and follow what everyone else is doing. It's not clever in that scenario to go to the end and force your way in because you'll force what was a slow moving line to stop altogether.

A lot of places do now say merge in turn and that's what people do. A I go you go works really well but it also doesn't work when someone tries to push in when it's not their turn.

So both methods need people to play fair.

Yes of course, that's what we do when we are running. But the point is more that pedestrians keep walking and running in the road when there's a pavement available. Even in the unlikely circumstance that there isn't a car or van parked on it.

@LakieLady rest assured they are the cunt - or expletive of choice - personally I don’t really like that one.

They do it because there’s no deterrent, in the same way that if there’s no consequences for inappropriate behaviour in the classroom the bullies can have free rein. All you can do is have cameras on your car. (I haven’t but I’m considering it).

When I did a speed awareness course (ironic I know) the course leader said you should just try to focus on your own safety and not engage with any unpleasantness regardless of how you were treated. So when I’m tailgated I pull in immediately and just try to be unemotional about it.

There's a set of lights in my (narrow) high street that has 4 phases, and slow ones at that.

Cyclists don't cycle across there when the lights are red, but bump up onto the (also narrow) pavement to ride past the lights instead. One almost ran into me the other day and had the audacity to call me a cunt as he bumped down the kerb into the road.

Both lanes are fully open until the merge point and both lanes should be used until the merge point. The highways agency puts the merge where they want it to be. If they wanted it a mile beforehand they'd have put it there.
Please, use both active lanes correctly and merge in turn at the point of the closure.

I agree, but sadly the twats queueing in the lane you need to merge into often seem to regard it as taking the piss and will often refuse to let you in.

I find it terrible in a Midlands county I visit compared to where I live, I think there are just more traffic cops!

Are these people the same people, surely if you are unfamiliar with a B road and it's dark for example, 40- 45 is not that unreasonable?

It actually doesn’t say that. There’s no must for pedestrians (apart from not being on motorways), guidance in Rule 2 says to keep to RH side where no pavements but it may be safer to cross road well before a sharp rh bend and to cross back. It’s more nuanced and will depend on conditions.

Runners do it. It drives me mad and I am a runner. Sometimes I am out running with people who stay on the road when I move onto the pavement because a car is coming What is wrong with them?

I would squeeze my buggy past anyway.

Someone was parked on a pavement near my house a few months ago and accidentally on purpose banged his wing mirror as I walked past. He had the cheek to tell me to look where I was going.

There is one like this at J5 of the M3 as you come off northbound. They tell you to use the right hand lane but then you have to change lanes. If you go in the left hand lane it takes you all the way round to turn right!

It does make you wonder. Just saw someone blatantly go through a red light. Not as it was changing from amber to red but definitely on red.

See pedestrian waiting to cross = put foot to floor even if they are meant to stop at a red light. I give up.

The lack of indicator-use drives me nuts. I'm on a mobility scooter and drivers just drive at me. I can't just leap onto a pavement either. Sometimes I do have to travel a short distance on the road to get to a dropped kerb (which is another of my bugbears - why do road makers/menders make even the drops a good inch or two above the roads????!!!! I've nearly tipped over so many times.)

You can throw insults about all you want, it doesn't change the fact that the collision was ultimately caused by your actions.

You have too much time on your hands - unlike the woman who drove over the centre of the roundabout!

There's one near me. As you approach the signs clearly show the right lane is to turn right but the left lane is to go in all three directions. As you enter it from the left lane to turn right the markings take you round to exit into the left lane of the road you are joining.

There's another one which tells you specifically that if you are turning right at that roundabout but left at the next one you should turn onto roundabout 1 in the left lane and exit into the left lane. Loads of people fuck that one up and enter r1 in the right lane then try to switch lanes at the exit and cut me up. Pisses me right off.

I don't recall ever seeing a roundabout where you would turn right, ie go most of the way round it and use the left hand lane.
If there are such things then this is not what I am referring to, obviously.

Or is that everyone thinks they're a better driver than everyone else and drives around in a toxic bubble of delusional superiority and misplaced righteous anger, thereby exacerbating the problem

No.5 especially is prevalent now. I wonder if people don't know who takes priority, or they just don't care.

Yes this is your fault, you made assumptions about another drivers intentions and failed to give way, causing a collision with someone who was already established on the roundabout.

You should only move off if it's clear and safe to do so.

For a different illustration, say I was at a side road waiting to turn onto a main road, and someone is approaching from my right, indicating to turn into the side road I'm in. If I assume that car will definitely turn into the side road and pull out, but they weren't turning, carried straight on, and we collide, then it is absolutely my fault because I have moved into the path of a vehicle established in it's lane.

There are many reasons why indicators don't commit drivers to manoeuvres and why they don't negate your liability, and why you shouldn't assume someone's actions based on their use - they can be wrong, they can be faulty, the driver can see a hazard last minute and have to change course...

We all develop sloppy driving habits and assume others intentions based on indicators, but we shouldn't be. Ultimately I'm afraid you are the one who caused that roundabout collision.

My pet hate if it hasn’t already been mentioned is drivers who don’t slow down at roundabouts. This seemed to start after the covid lockdown when the roads were very quiet. Some drivers actively accelerate rather than easing up to allow a vehicle from their left to take a gap.

They are not assholes, the lane is not closed until it is closed. Your attitude causes the queue to be twice as long, (in length, not time). You are ‘one of those’ drivers.

Lots of people block driveways They don't know what an H bar and/or a dropped kerb means.
Eve when there's a big sign saying access needed at all times, please don't block the drive they still do it.

So yes, yanbu.

agree total bloody Wild West on the roads - I got hit on a mini roundabout last year, other car wasn’t indicating right I assumed she was going straight over first exit, nope she drove over the centre of the mini roundabout and hit me.

was my fault apparently - still can’t work that one out……