Scariest part of your commute?

[Trumpettom001]

For me, it's roundabouts.... we have one at the bottom of town that i have to take a third exit on that I hate.. and even worse is the one at college campus..... I've had more near misses with Chav-bling-mobiles on campus than I have in the last year on "ordinary" roads...

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Convincing myself to get out of bed earlier than I would if I ever went by car.

 

[J4CKO]

Chelford road, Quarry Wagons 2 ft from your right elbow, focuses your attention.

 

[jcb]

Merge onto a 50mph narrow D/C with the main flow of traffic slowing down (not) from a motorway. Always a question of when to move, too late and you run out of slip road, too early and you're being passed on both sides at 60 mph

 

[Suerdusty]

Set of three roundabouts- No 1 Came off on an oil patch, No 2 knocked off by a Chav (SMIDSY) No 3 .Watch this space !

 

[leighd]

Cycling through part of the outskirts of Birmingham. They're so good at thieving that I think my bike may be stole from underneath me!

 

[garrilla]

A roundabout with 5 junctions, 2 are blind. The bulk of traffic is heading towards the motorway which is the exit immediately after mine. Judging it is hard because of the blind junctions. Its a fooking scary moment almost every day. Quite frequently I get it wrong, end up taking the first exit to go with flow, having to stop, mount the pavement, go back and try again. Very occasionally I have continued down the first exit road to take a crossing 500m away and return to the island on the other side!

I also have a 8% downhill about 2/3rds of mile long with a traffic light about 2/3 down. There are always cars waiting in the oncoming lane to turn right. If the speed is there and the lights are with me its scary not knowing if the turning car will gamble and try and squeeze through. It is made worse that immediately after the lights is a bus stop, which then makes the junction go from two lanes into one. I have had a good few near misses here and have had to swerve around the turning car and squeeze into the flow of traffic. Makes me shiver to think about it.

 

[eddiemee]

Definitely a four lane roundabout where the A road I'm on joins with a dual carriageway. So many drivers either ignore or fail to understand the clear signage saying to get in the correct lane and end up switching lanes halfway around, leading to many potential side-swipes. Fortunately I've never been clipped, though I have been balancing on my front with my rear wheel 6 inches off the ground after an emergency stop. Twice a day, every day for nearly five years.....

 

[PBancroft]

Getting to work.

*shudder*

 

[BrumJim]

Along the Canal, the bridge under Love Lane, Aston.

The canal narrows as the bridge parapets are narrower than the normal towpath. So you go round a chicane completely blind. There are actually three in quick succession, and this is the narrowest, the tightest, with an approach that funnels you into the chicane, and with a very bumpy bit of path in the bit under the bridge. If you meet someone going the other way mid chicane, then one of you will end up in the Canal.

 

[tordis]

There's this place on Woolwich Road/Trafalgar Road, where big vehicles turn left for Blackwall Tunnel. There's a ghost bike there, too, which keeps me alert. I don't like that place at all.

 

[summerdays]

The centre by the cenotaph, where its multi-lanes - I'm in the middle lane (in the middle of it), and I keep getting cars and buses trying to change lane into the side of me (yes I have lights and wearing a bright gillet and shadowy daylight).

 

[jimboalee]

Cycling through part of the outskirts of Birmingham. They're so good at thieving that I think my bike may be stole from underneath me!

Tamworth for mutton,
Walsall for beef,
Yenton for a pretty girl
and Brummagum for a thief.

 

[BentMikey]

This bit:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_nsvXWCnds


Steep uphill, 40mph limit, many cars at 50, blind rise, and yet still they overtake. Once even with a caravan.

 

[jimboalee]

Down the hill from Warwick police station, onto an island that has lots of favourable camber on the entrance but bad inverse camber on the exit and has thick white lines to dodge in the wet.
On the very steepest part of the inverse camber, there is a drain grid slightly raised.
Close to the gutter, there is always a pool of loose grit.

Next scariest is rounding the M42 island. I watch the cars approaching up the motorway exit ramp and 'Have they seen me?', 'will they stop?'