crazy vic drivers

by **stalker** » May 31st, 2008, 6:20 pm

ok so i was in vic the other day picking up a trans with my friend, it was for his son's car an EL. anyway, i have never been cut of so much in my life. was bad to cos we hit peek time traffic, we went though where the gps said, so over the bridge and under the leaking tunnel. all of this was doing 40km/h or under. what the hell is up with traffic over there, if that was SA we would be doing 100km/h and no one would cut you off... like seriously now i know why you all got turbo falcons, you need it to get though the bloody traffic!! was funny though we had a uhf and were listening to the truckies talking, man they are some funny basteds :p

by **wolf** » May 31st, 2008, 6:59 pm

shoulda driven over in a kia mighta been better for ya.

but seriously Melbourne traffic sux balls

by **Dansedgli** » May 31st, 2008, 7:02 pm

I spent all day in the emergency room on thursday due to a shithouse Vic driver. Your story doesnt appeal to me.

by **stalker** » May 31st, 2008, 7:10 pm

na was in my mates AU ex taxi, was a return trip for it too. couldn't believe what the traffic was like, why do you guys have 3-4 lane freeways that are like 40-60km/h. there is little wonder why vic has one of the highest accident rates in Australia.

by **Dezza** » May 31st, 2008, 7:25 pm

stalker wrote:na was in my mates AU ex taxi, was a return trip for it too. couldn't believe what the traffic was like, why do you guys have 3-4 lane freeways that are like 40-60km/h. there is little wonder why vic has one of the highest accident rates in Australia.

because the Victorian government has the belief that if you are moving 5 kph over any speed limit, you are a danger to the roads and are going to die.

by **stalker** » May 31st, 2008, 8:44 pm

ok but why such a slow speed limit? or are people just really slow drivers.. our expressways and freeways are 100-110, not 60... either way just wow, took over an hour to get to where we were going once we entered the city. and the dude was only just on the other side of it.

by **Dezza** » May 31st, 2008, 10:43 pm

Well, most freeways here are 100 (110 further away from Melbourne), but a lot of it's down to 80 at the moment due to roadworks. And then there are all the right lane hogging Camry drivers that feel like it's their duty to drive another 20kph under that!

by **Steady** » June 1st, 2008, 12:31 am

stalker wrote:ok but why such a slow speed limit? or are people just really slow drivers.. our expressways and freeways are 100-110, not 60... either way just wow, took over an hour to get to where we were going once we entered the city. and the dude was only just on the other side of it.

Unlike SA, people in Vic actually work, as opposed to sitting at home fabbing up bongs out of gatorade bottles.

by **stalker** » June 1st, 2008, 5:41 am

ok steady, so we went from semi-decent posts to bull shit, thanks for your impute mate, as for the road works yea there was a bit on the freeway. the trucks seemed to be the main problem though, they couldn't make up their minds on what lane they wanted to be in, that and one of them was talking about a car that ran into him.. so that was holding a little bit of traffic up too..

by **Dansedgli** » June 1st, 2008, 6:19 am

Your first post wasnt semi decent.

OMG Traffic in peak hour!!11 Better make a thread about it!!11 Cant you waste bandwidth somewhere else?

Unlike a kia, traffic in peak hour has no power to surprise.

by **[Sterling]** » June 1st, 2008, 12:46 pm

maybe in adelaide they just drive like girls?

by **AaronEF8** » June 1st, 2008, 1:15 pm

Adelaide drivers suck ass. People from Adelaide who complain about Melbourne traffic are destined to stay in Adelaide all their life, and worse still, enjoy it.

No-one in SA can drive on a freeway, or any dual-lane road. 'Keep left unless overtaking' is a courtesy, not a law apparently. I'd say getting 'cut-off' was just people swapping lanes with less than 500m of space behind them. SA drivers don't like giving up their territory, the number of knts that speed up when you change lanes here is a joke.

Powerade bottles make better bongs, they're more sturdy.

by **EL XR8** » June 1st, 2008, 1:33 pm

LOL, traffic in Melb isnt that bad! Stalker, have you driven anywhere else other than Adelaide and now Melb.Sydney is bad, but I reckon South East QLD is the worst i've seen and been in. Takes 30 mins to drive 10-15km in the middle of the day. I reckon peak hour in Melb is like a normal middle of the day drive here.
But seriously, people cut you off everywhere these days. There's almost never a ride/drive i go on, without being annoyed by some twits driving aptitude.

by **LUXO_8** » June 1st, 2008, 1:41 pm

darwin is crazy to drive in, traffic lights mean nothing, wait...road rules mean nothing.....
melbourne is awesome compared

by **stalker** » June 1st, 2008, 4:23 pm

na driven in Perth Queensland melb and Adelaide, all i was saying is out peek time traffic is no where near that bad here.

and aaron was more like less than 1m, trucks were almost as bad, taking spots smaller than the truck its self. Adelaide is easy to drive in. but your right Adelaide drivers dont want to give up there spot always fun going onto the southern express way.

by **FRDXR6** » June 1st, 2008, 5:07 pm

Well considering Melbourne has 2.6 million more people than Adelaide, what would you expect? We dont keep those extra people locked up in basements.

Also speed limits are farked at the moment on the south-eastern freeway due to major roadworks and upgrades, hence the 80km/h limit instead of the standard 100km/h. Theres also works on and around the West Gate bridge.

The tunnel is usually 60-80km/h i think but most likely changes at peak times due to congestion. Can you imagine what would happen if 2 cars caused an accident 1km into the tunnel and hundreds of cars behind them travelling at 100km/h had no where to go to avoid them? It happened once last year which killed a few people and caused an inferno which melted cars at 1000 degrees! Theres a car attached to the front of that truck and a good reason why you have reduced limits in the tunnels.

Our peak hour is like a drive through the country side compared to London or New York's peak hour congestion.

by **[D1SCNT]** » June 1st, 2008, 7:17 pm

Steady the MARTYR! wrote:
stalker wrote:ok but why such a slow speed limit? or are people just really slow drivers.. our expressways and freeways are 100-110, not 60... either way just wow, took over an hour to get to where we were going once we entered the city. and the dude was only just on the other side of it.

Unlike SA, people in Vic actually work, as opposed to sitting at home fabbing up bongs out of gatorade bottles.

OMGLMAO!!!!!!!

by **ed40** » June 1st, 2008, 8:04 pm

pft, i had a blast when i was driving around melbourne, never seen so much courtesy in my life. Perth drivers are fucken useless compaired to Vics!

by **BLCKED** » June 2nd, 2008, 11:16 pm

adelaide is a shit hole

about 40 people live there, melbourne road and freeway system is heaps better

try driving in sydney there psychopaths. i loved it when i lived there.

by **Commando** » June 2nd, 2008, 11:23 pm

that last line is awesome on so many levels

by **BLCKED** » June 2nd, 2008, 11:26 pm

ed40 wrote:pft, i had a blast when i was driving around melbourne, never seen so much courtesy in my life. Perth drivers are fucken useless compaired to Vics!

totally agree, perth are so slow and hopeless.

least they go around smashing provate speed cameras :0

by **Rollin** » June 2nd, 2008, 11:33 pm

One thing that confused the absolute crap out of me in Melbourne was all the people in the city pulling over onto the far, FAR left side of the road at large intersections, and waiting till all the traffic passed them on the right, before they then turned right

usually after their lights had been red for quite a while.

I suppose you'd all at least have to have your RHS rear view mirror adjusted correctly or risk a taxi into your drivers door as you turned out...but that is some weird shit right there.

by **BLCKED** » June 2nd, 2008, 11:35 pm

yeah i must admit the "hook turn" is a joke, not sure why we do it in melbourne

meant to help the flow of traffic,

by **nommic** » June 2nd, 2008, 11:36 pm

Hook turns.

Because of the tram tracks right down the middle of the road, and so a car doesn't hold up traffic in the right lane while waiting to turn right.

They shit me right off.

by **UNEZED** » June 2nd, 2008, 11:40 pm

neva done one yet and i dirve in the city alot guess i just pik intersections without em but yer they suk

by **Steady** » June 2nd, 2008, 11:50 pm

All you do is pull infront of the traffic that are stopped at the lights on the road you want to turn onto on, when their lights turn green you go.
Easy, dunno why people think it's hard

Better then kunts sitting in the right hand lane waiting to turn and congesting traffic.

by **Rollin** » June 3rd, 2008, 12:36 am

Ah ok, so it's kind of like...instead of turning left and then doing a U turn to end up behind traffic heading in the direction you want to go, you just pull to the left and then go when their lights change, as if you were waiting in first position at the lights. Makes sense now, in a strange sort of way...still looks like a recipe for disaster to an uneducated pedestrian!

by **tezza bear** » June 3rd, 2008, 12:47 am

i've been down here a little over 12 months & still trying to get use to driving & surviving here

by **Dansedgli** » June 3rd, 2008, 5:48 am

Hook turns are a piece of piss.

The are made so you dont sit on the inside lane on tram tracks waiting to turn right blocking the trams.

by **markTD** » June 3rd, 2008, 2:04 pm

Hook turns in most cases have lit up signs indicating that you have to do one (right turn from left lane), and when to go just like normal lights. Its easy.

by **Kyle the ED4LTR** » June 3rd, 2008, 2:10 pm

yeh hook turns are a piece of piss, but is a shock for interstaters

by **BlackED_Sprint** » June 3rd, 2008, 2:57 pm

Adelaide is so much worse to drive in than melbourne. Im from country SA, so i fekkin hated driving in adelaide and assumed it was just city driving in general.
When i moved to melbourne, i realised it was just the fact that everyone in adelaide refuses to acknowledge any other driver, doesnt to let anyone merge, dont indicate and generally have no fucking clue of the road rules. Id rather peak hour melbourne driving than driving in adelaide with no one around me for fear that some shtknt is going to appear from nowhere and t-bone me.
its not just adelaide either. i went home the other week(naracoorte if anyone knows it or cares

)and was driving down the main street and had to swerve 4 times in a row to avoid people pulling out of car parks without looking. Melbourne is a piece of piss. it may be congested, but people (generally) know how to drive.

by **YBYAVL** » June 4th, 2008, 1:54 pm

Adelaide sux purely an simply coz im told they dont have Big Ms....
who the fuk wants to drive in a state that dusnt have Big Ms!?!?

an im sorry but Classic ice Chocolate DOES NOT COUNT!

and as for QLD drivers....r u all on holidays or sumthing? u ppl r too laid back and cruizy
ive got shit to do an places to be, i dun wana be held up by sumkunt enjoying "the sunshine state"

an sydney.....sydneys jus fukd an thats all im guna say.

Melbourne Rawks!
altho, we are starting to get all sydneys curries....which is slowly fukn our roads even more, jus wen we finally taught most of the asians to drive, along come the currys
and wats worse, they drive our taxis! wat r we thinking? seriously.

BlackED_Sprint - im glad u sed generally lol

by **spope** » June 4th, 2008, 2:01 pm

DandyNights wrote:Adelaide sux purely an simply coz im told they dont have Big Ms....
who the fuk wants to drive in a state that dusnt have Big Ms!?!?

Best. Post. Ever.

Not wanting to go interstate because they don't have chocolate milk is awesome.

They do have lots of Farmers Union iced coffee though!

by **YBYAVL** » June 4th, 2008, 2:04 pm

im never going to sth. aust. simply for that fact....unless i stok up in vic b4 i leave
but chances are ill drinkem all b4 i hit the border anyway....its jus how it is. lol

nowonder SA kunts r so edgy....all that fukn caffine.

by **Commando** » June 4th, 2008, 2:07 pm

DandyNights wrote:Adelaide sux purely an simply coz im told they dont have Big Ms....
who the fuk wants to drive in a state that dusnt have Big Ms!?!?

an im sorry but Classic ice Chocolate DOES NOT COUNT!

FUIC. That ia all.

Melbourne Rawks!
altho, we are starting to get all sydneys curries....which is slowly fukn our roads even more, jus wen we finally taught most of the asians to drive, along come the currys
and wats worse, they drive our taxis! wat r we thinking? seriously.

Oh the replies to this are going to be good!

by **Commando** » June 4th, 2008, 2:08 pm

DandyNights wrote:nowonder SA kunts r so edgy....all that fukn caffine.

No, they're edgy because they've got a 1-in-20 chance of ending up in a barrel

by **YBYAVL** » June 4th, 2008, 2:15 pm

Commando wrote:
DandyNights wrote:Melbourne Rawks!
altho, we are starting to get all sydneys curries....which is slowly fukn our roads even more, jus wen we finally taught most of the asians to drive, along come the currys
and wats worse, they drive our taxis! wat r we thinking? seriously.

Oh the replies to this are going to be good!

lol, ye i didnt realy think about wat i sed, till i red it jus now.....ahwell...im not racist, i hate everybody.
its not my fault they duno how to laugh at thier own defects.
i can laugh at mine....im a redneck an proud....i have a gun rak in the boot an my dogs r named Smith an Wesson

by **Bipolar** » June 4th, 2008, 2:31 pm

Best chocolate milk ever.

by **YBYAVL** » June 4th, 2008, 4:48 pm

oooo iduno....Big M is a hard 1 to nokback.....ive had to lower my standards atm for tafe coz they onli serve Rush...

WTF!

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