Has anyone else noticed the sheer amount of road rage about recently?

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I do live in a city and one of the biggest issues is cars park on both sides meaning there’s only room for single traffic meaning a lot of cars meeting and reversing.

I have noticed the anger and rage, mouthing obscenities and hand gestures because someone else happens to be there.

I get the inconvenience of having to pull in or reverse back but I would never feel the need to aggressively stick my fingers up (or worse) or mouth something at another driver for simply using the same road.

I’m sure these people aren’t like this in their homes or businesses.

Life is full of that kind of stuff but you have to try and arrange things, sometimes taking quite big decisions to make it work. That might involve changing jobs, or choosing a school or whatever thinking about logistics. It's hard I know..I'm a working single parent and bloody hell I juggle. But I chose houses and schools to make it as doable as possible

Love how people say allow more time. I already set off early as it is to allow for traffic. Why should we then have to set off even earlier to allow for selfish dawdlers.

Try being a learner now, my DH is an ADI and the abuse learners get is shocking. Never happened years ago when I was learning so it shows how the human race has changed

People are much poorer and much much angrier since Covid. Its lovely for you not to have noticed.

Because the world is full of different people with different needs, why is your schedule more important than theirs

I agree people need to have more patience with learners.
Having said that though I do not agree with some of the areas driving instructors take learner drivers ie packed out, really tightly spaced car parks to learn parking manoeuvres when such car parks are a challenge even for experienced drivers. I have witnessed such a car park being used on a couple of occasions by learners with driving instructors which when it’s such a packed car park and parking spaces are tight, it’s not the place to start taking learners. Not only does it cause a nuisance to other drivers it’s just downright dangerous.

I was following a learner just yesterday along a road until we came to a roundabout that was split into 3 lanes. The learner got in the left lane and I got in the middle lane and joined the queue to the roundabout. Whilst I was moving up the queue the learner just decided to cut into the middle lane right in front of me and I nearly went into the side of them.
This wasn’t a learner who was driving with a relative/ friend/ husband, they were in a company learner car with a qualified driving instructor who had obviously not made the necessary checks and just allowed the learner to almost cause an accident. I had to really bite back my anger as I knew it wasn’t the learner drivers fault but the instructor should have known better! So I can understand why some drivers may get frustrated.

And why is their schedule (or lack of) more important than anyone else’s?

No-one is any more important than anyone else..one person's desperate hurry is no more important in ordinary circumstances than someone else's needs to move carefully, or with caution. We keep hearing people going below a speed limit called selfish dawdlers and so on. I could call the rushing people impatient hasslers who cause distress and worry . There has to be a better way to interact.

Well you try ‘interacting’ with them then. Lol

Taxi drivers do the same. Both "professional" driver types just block the road rather than bothering to park literally a few feet away in a proper parking space or less obstructive place. They have a horrible sense of entitlement - just because "they can" doesn't mean they should!

How about we stop dividing into "them," and "us" ? I might be one of "them" for all you know. We're all just people trying to do a thing. Getting angry and pissy with everyone just drips that little bit more bile and ire into the world.

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This. There's a lot of rage in this thread. I still can't see the point of blaming Covid you might just as well blame Brexit. Did people behave like this after Spanish Flu in 2018?

NSL signs mean the road hasn't been assessed for speed, not that its safe to do 60. Its a default setting. You are supposed to use common sense on country lanes

Nail on the head! So many people think a speed limit is a target not a limit. Road conditions, visibility, risks etc are what dictates the speed that is safe to travel at, not a road sign!

Go back and read my posts again where I have clearly given my opinion on NSL signs on country lanes. On this particular post I’m talking about straight roads, one in particular near to where I live which is a long very straight stretch of 40mph which then turns into NLS and remains a very straight road, it is NOT a country road so stop making it appear like I have said something I haven’t! I have very clearly pointed out on this thread numerous times now that I don’t feel it’s safe for winding country roads to have NSL signs on them as it is impossible to do 60mph on such bendy winding roads and that having NSL signs on country roads is dangerous as it makes drivers believe they can go faster than it is safely possible to do so. Please read what I’ve written before commenting!

Ok well that just about sums up the attitude thats making this world suck ..so you carry on being radgy and annoyed and self righteous and I'll keep my blood pressure at a nice calm level and get on with things. 😘

It must be nice to be so perfect and not get irritated about ANYTHING ever 🤣

The point I was making is that NSL signs don't mean what you mean they do. They do not mean drive at 60 on those roads you say its unsafe to have them. A quick Internet search will show the reasons for this. (Basically to allow people to choseva safe appropriate speed, which could change regularly)

I guard my bucket of fucks v v carefully. I only get irritated by deliberate, entirely avoidable knobbishness. Most other things are "meh".

I know what they mean, I took my driving test 20 years ago. My point (which has nothing to do with your point btw) is that on a certain stretch of road near to where I live, which is a very straight road, I always get stuck behind someone who feels the need to go 30mph in a 40mph zone and then when the 40 speed limit later changes to NSL they do 40mph which then means they hold all the traffic up behind them for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Completely unnecessary. Just because the speed limit is not a target doesn’t mean people should go as slow as they possibly can for no reason whatsoever and irritate everyone else who is trailing along behind them. Your post has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m talking about so I’m not sure why you quoted me

Driving standards are terrible. I've had several people stop halfway round a roundabout in the past few weeks. Two people deciding to let other people on? Another just stationary then proceeding to drive. Changing lanes halfway round the roundabout without indicating. Being in the left hand lane when there are two or three lanes but going right.

I was nearly in an accident earlier in the year. We were rural (can't remember Scotland or Wales) beautiful scenery. Two lanes 60mph road uphill with an overtaking lane. I go to overtake a car going rather slow in the inside lane approx 30mph and the move to the outside lane. I have to break. When I do then go round after they move back over to the inside lane the windows are down and the passenger is filming the scenery!

Oh so you do get irritated then! So it’s ok for you to be irritated but not for others to be irritated. Makes sense 👍

Oh and ‘deliberate, entirely avoidable knobbishness’ is exactly what I’ve been talking about throughout this thread 😂

I was coming out of a local road onto a main road, which had temprary traffic lights to my right (I was turning left). I checked both ways - the lights to my right were on red, but no cars were coming down from the right, and to my left there was a queue of cars waiting at the red light.

I started to pull out and suddenly a car flashed past me. It had decided to jump the queue and go through the red light and nearly took me out.

I have never been so angry with someone in my life. He was absolutely bombing along - goodness knows what would have happened if I hadn't slammed on my brakes.

I guess he was in a hurry!

can you share the thread link please?