I find that a starting point is the way the authorities treat you as if you are a stupid child killing cash machine that must be controlled and milked as much as possible.
Just thinking about a road with stupidly high speed bumps can get me annoyed, closely followed by that 30mph limit to protect any cows that might be related to the infamous one that jumped over the moon who might jump over the hedges on either sire of the road.
Or that road with chicanes on, that had zero accidents before the chicanes, and has had 4 since, all of which have directly involved the chicanes.
Then there is traffic lights that cause queues (I know because when the lights failed for a week all the queues vanished), or the people that licenced the Tesco Express by the lights so that the mile long queues now take twice as long to navigate because the green lights are blocked by cars wanting to turn right to get a pint of milk.
Then there is ambiguity in the Highway code - you have two lanes merging into one. Do you a) join the left lane as soon as the queue starts even if it is 1/2 mile before the merge, or b) do you carry on up the right lane and get blocked from merging by people incensed that you are queue jumping. The Highway code could suggest that all lanes should be used and vehicles should merge on a one by one basis, but it doesn't.
And of course Speed enforcement in places that you know are miles away from any speed related incidents... But what is the bl**dy limit?? Help!
And people that have never been introduced into indicators, or that were obviously told the sequence is manoeuvre-signal not mirror-signal-manoeuvre. Or that drive with front fog lights on all the time - do they really think that they do anything other than dazzle other vehicles? Or have rear fog lights on weeks after the last slight hint of mist.
And accidents where it take 5 times as long to get the road moving as they should do.
And Traffic information signs that cost a fortune to put in and took years of roadworks, caused no end of hassle with the 2.5 mile reduced speed zones in which you were lucky to see anybody working, ever, and have never told you anything of any use about what is happening.
And those lying adverts that tell you and everybody else, that all accidents are purely down to speeding motorists.
And somehow the speed limits only apply to you, while the Police drive through at any speed they fancy, and how come you got prosecuted for doing the same speed they are anyway?
Where is PaulF when a thread is designed just for him?
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