Vehicle behaviour at different times of day

[Ellis456]

I've noticed when I go out for a cycle some days say about 2pm I notice I get a lot of room and not so much rush past me behavior, yet at 3-4pm this totally changes to the total opposite, people take a gamble just to shave 3 seconds off there journey cutting me up or driving to close.




Maybe it's the weather?, when it was sunny I got lot of room etc but come miserable weather people just dont seem to care as much?.




Does anyone notice this?.

 

[HLaB]

Driving does vary with time, generally people driving through the day at say 2pm have more free time on their hands and are more patient but drivers after about 3 consist of a large number of folk rushing to pick up their kids from school, no concern about other kids


Driving also varies with the weather as more folk seem to be imprisoned in their boxes in bad weather where in good weather more may walk and/or take the bus or cycle.

 

[XmisterIS]

The worst time I have found is between 5pm and 6pm on a hot and sunny day coming out of either Southampton or Portsmouth. During that time there are huge traffic jams (and I mean several miles of solid traffic); during the height of it (about 5:30), some people will deliberately drive into the cycle lane to stop cyclists from passing.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

From my experience, the quality of driving deteriorates sharply from 4pm in central London, and maybe from slightly earlier in residential areas where there are schools. A bit of rain - and it's been pretty changeable weather with high humidity around here recently - incapacitates people or makes their hair curl, one or the other. So fewer people can survive outdoors and, clearly, there are more people who have to use cars, which blocks up the roads and slows their journeys and reduces...I was going to say visibility (which is certainly true) but it's more the case that a spot of rain reduces the desire to look.

So a greasy afternoon like today, combined with busier than usual roads, makes for a lot of bad, pushy, uncivil driving. IME, it's the drivers who are trying to beat the rush hour who are more pushy than the ones actually caught up in it, though.

 

[sheddy]

Rain does seem to make motons worse. Somehow makes em more stressed. Even though its dry in their steel box.

 

[Zoiders]

Post evening rush hour you get the guys who have been in the local for a swift 2 or 3 pints after work.

About half sixish.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Different times and different places all affect the way people drive. On the job I'm doing now I'm normally travelling in the morning after 9:15am and evening after 6:45pm, the driving is different to when I do the occasional early start, rush hour or tail end of school run, where the driving is poorer and there's more impatience. With this job I'm travelling out of Coventry to Nuneaton and back and the standard of driving is different to the standard I encountered when I used to cross Coventry every day, again poorer driving and more impatience.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

The worst time I have found is between 5pm and 6pm on a hot and sunny day coming out of either Southampton or Portsmouth. During that time there are huge traffic jams (and I mean several miles of solid traffic); during the height of it (about 5:30), some people will deliberately drive into the cycle lane to stop cyclists from passing.

I hate that.

It's like they have this "THIS IS A QUEUE- WAIT YOUR TURN" mentality except, if their attitude was transposed to a supermarket queue, when the queue moved forward and the person in front bent to pick up their basket, the guy with the trolley behind quickly ran forward and passed the basket-carrier because "you were slower" then insisted that baskets should wait in line behind. If the basket carrier argues of course, the trolley driver will point out that he had to put a £1 coin in the slot in order to use his trolley whilst baskets have no coin slot and therefore have no right to be there anyway.

 

[DrSquirrel]

School run time, near a school - you'd think they would take their times with their little preciouses, but nooooooooooo

 

[BentMikey]

I'm a bit ambivalent about this one. Sometimes I do feel that drivers behave differently at different times of days, other times I'm convinced it's just that there are runs of better drivers and runs of worse drivers.

 

[Beebo]

Friday evening in London is always awful.

Everyone just wants to get home after a long week and the main routes tend to grid lock.

 

[gambatte]

I hate that.

It's like they have this "THIS IS A QUEUE- WAIT YOUR TURN" mentality

Doesn't just affect cyclists. Seeing as you're Sheffield, you might know this one. The Asda in Rotherham, near Dalton?

It's next to a RAB. The RAB exits into 2 lanes, towards Doncaster. 50 yards on it converges into 1 lane. In the meantime the left hand lane has passed an exit into Asda. The left hand lane is generally very slow if not stop/start. The right hand lane is quite often empty. You get drivers pulling from the left into the next lane to stop cars passing before the lanes converge.

This is despite the fact that as you leave the RAB there are signs either side of the exit saying 'USE BOTH LANES'

 

[fossyant]

School run time is bad. Why is it parents have to park as close as possible to a school ? Fortunately, I'm not usually cycling at that time. We even had to have police outside our school for a few weeks stopping them parking illegally - due to some parents having a blazing row about blocking the road - and those at the centre of the row lived locally, but drove up to the school.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

School run time is bad. Why is it parents have to park as close as possible to a school ? Fortunately, I'm not usually cycling at that time. We even had to have police outside our school for a few weeks stopping them parking illegally - due to some parents having a blazing row about blocking the road - and those at the centre of the row lived locally, but drove up to the school.

Because people have this "need" to park right next to where they are going, and using their legs to put one foot in front of the other is just not on in this day and age - evolution should be doing its job and getting rid of our unnecessary legs by now surely?

I get fed up of people bleating about Sheffield being "anti-car" and the "anti-car council" ruining the city centry by making it impossible to shop there by "banning" cars.

Despite two brand new tall multi-storey car parks that, save for Christmastime, are completely empty after the 4th floor, pretty much slap-bang in the city centre.

But everyone should be entitled to park for free in the doorway of WH Smith and if they can't it's "anti-car"

 

[Mad at urage]

Doesn't just affect cyclists. Seeing as you're Sheffield, you might know this one. The Asda in Rotherham, near Dalton?

It's next to a RAB. The RAB exits into 2 lanes, towards Doncaster. 50 yards on it converges into 1 lane. In the meantime the left hand lane has passed an exit into Asda. The left hand lane is generally very slow if not stop/start. The right hand lane is quite often empty. You get drivers pulling from the left into the next lane to stop cars passing before the lanes converge.

This is despite the fact that as you leave the RAB there are signs either side of the exit saying 'USE BOTH LANES'

I think some people (especially van and lorry drivers IME) think that "USE BOTH LANES" means that they should use both, for their one vehicle