so THAT's how to run a red light!

[goo_mason]

Picture the scene:

Traffic lights at the bottom of Ferry Road this morning - left turn arrow on green, straight ahead on red. I'm in the left-turn lane, and a taxi pulls up at the red light in the straight-ahead lane just ahead of me.

He then starts creeping through the lights before accelerating. When he's almost clear across the junction, he indicates left briefly, in the most feeble and blatant pretence of having been in the wrong lane and changing his mind at the last second. I'd almost have believed him if he'd changed direction slightly as he indicated, but he didn't as he knew full well where he was going.

The best 'trick' for running a red light I've seen yet!

 

[chap]

Taxi drivers...sigh

Picture the scene:

Traffic lights at the bottom of Ferry Road this morning - left turn arrow on green, straight ahead on red. I'm in the left-turn lane, and a taxi pulls up at the red light in the straight-ahead lane just ahead of me.

He then starts creeping through the lights before accelerating. When he's almost clear across the junction, he indicates left briefly, in the most feeble and blatant pretence of having been in the wrong lane and changing his mind at the last second. I'd almost have believed him if he'd changed direction slightly as he indicated, but he didn't as he knew full well where he was going.

The best 'trick' for running a red light I've seen yet!

He'll get his comeuppance, just you wait until that tram is eventually released.

 

[Archie_tect]

Hang on goo.... if you were in the left turn lane already [as he approached from behind you] with a left turn green filter why were you waiting at the lights instead of carrying on turning left with a green light... weren't you in the wrong lane confusing the taxi driver as to your intentions?....

 

[HLaB]

I came down the the open bit of constitution st the other day to see a car do similar, creeping across the stop line through the red light got to the giveway line but didn't give way just went for it, no indicating mind you.

 

[Bristol Dave]

Some people are shameless! I often wonder why some taxi drivers drive as though they are carrying vital organs to an emergency operation yet when I'm in the back they seem to find every traffic jam and snarl up possible.

BD

 

[goo_mason]

Hang on goo.... if you were in the left turn lane already [as he approached from behind you] with a left turn green filter why were you waiting at the lights instead of carrying on turning left with a green light... weren't you in the wrong lane confusing the taxi driver as to your intentions?....

I wasn't waiting - he overtook me as we approached the lights and I was able to witness his little trick as I approached and began turning left. It's a sharp left with a cambered rise, so I slow down as I approach. Got a fright once with the rear sliding out of line as I cornered, so take it much easier.

 

[Archie_tect]

Sorry- I'd misunderstood- got the picture now!