"Deliberate" Road Rage?

[simple as]

omg!! i would consider myself a total road rage nut but never really thought about the people on the recieving end. well from now on a shall be a little more patient and consider other road users wen im running l8.

[Rupert_Baehr]

From what I've seen of traffic lights in Sheffield, they are set up to disrupt the flow of traffic and to make life difficult for motorists. Poor timing and sequencing seem to be the norm.

 

Fortunately, they're not like that everywhere in the world. - Or even everywhere in Yorkshire.

[kermit103]

Both in the wrong as GREEN means you may go on if the way is clear. Take special care if you intend to turn left or right and give way to pedestrians who are crossing

[SnailyBoy]

From what I've seen of traffic lights in Sheffield, they are set up to disrupt the flow of traffic and to make life difficult for motorists. Poor timing and sequencing seem to be the norm......

 

There's normally more than one flow of traffic, so a red light here, normally equals a green light there, vice versa.

 

If everyone follows the rules and reigns in the impatience we can all get from A - B in one piece.

[Nagel]

ISTR that the minimum timing is 4 seconds green to green. Red / amber might be back to back in some busy junctions, but as we all know, amber means STOP* so we should all be OK.

 

I though green meant go and amber meant go faster ?

[hitchhiker]

From what I've seen of traffic lights in Sheffield, they are set up to disrupt the flow of traffic and to make life difficult for motorists. Poor timing and sequencing seem to be the norm.

 

Fortunately, they're not like that everywhere in the world. - Or even everywhere in Yorkshire.

 

You're right!

 

I always assumed that it was on purpose to try to bully motorists into using other forms of transport but it's not faster on the but (only 4 times as expensive)

[Paul2412]

From what I've seen of traffic lights in Sheffield, they are set up to disrupt the flow of traffic and to make life difficult for motorists. Poor timing and sequencing seem to be the norm.

 

Fortunately, they're not like that everywhere in the world. - Or even everywhere in Yorkshire.

 

This is true, even at 2am on a Sunday night / Monday morning its stop, start, stop, start all the way through the city centre, even if you're on the ring road.

 

I always thought ring roads were supposed to allow traffic to flow around the edge of the city centre. Ours seems to be some kind of experiment, or partnership with a local brake / clutch specialist centre.

[Moosey]

Traffic lights have different colours?

[hard2miss]

Not sure I follow, you didn't stop at the traffic lights because someone was behind you?

Me too.

 

The title is a question but the OP seems to answer the question for themselves so Im not sure what to make of any of this, I think what's being said is that a mistake was made and someone got upset, But I am not sure if there is any more to it than that really.

[Stomp]

Hi guys

 

Sorry - just got out of an all day meeting!

 

To clarify - yes there was someone right up my back axle, and I assumed (foolishly it seems) that there would be a minimum amount of time between one set of lights turning from Green to Amber, and the other set going from Red, to Red & Amber.

 

In this instance I decided not to stop, and go through the light on Amber, as per the highway code. Stopping at that moment would have caused a significant crash for both me and the party at fault who would now be embedded in my back bumper.

 

The part I objected to so much was that it must have been clear to the vehicle opposite me that it was unsafe for me to stop (observation - or do people just daydream in a queue?) and thus a delay of a second, if that long, would have negated the need for (s)he to toot their horn and drive in an agressive manner.

 

The question I posed was I suppose "Do other road users go out of their way to wind up other people, or ortherwise cause a confrontation, or is 'road rage' the result of poor driving on the part of the other person?"

 

I would suggest that the other party was at fault, however everyone is a perfect driver right? Im more than happy for anyone on SF to sit in my passenger seat and give me pointers on how I can improve my driving, as I will freely admit that at times i've not driven well, and may have cut people up etc, but in this instance I belive I wasn't in the wrong.