How many drivers here tailgate?

[edczxcvbnm]

I don't get it...what I really don't get is the "Royal Mail Van". What the smurf? Is there a Peasant Mail Van that isn't allowed access to what ever ty area that anyone can get to provided the hope on the bus?

Also what area would allow only a bus to access that area? I don't quite understand that or see what the big deal is.

I tail gate but it isn't my fault. Other people don't know how to press down on the gas and drive like they are more concerned with masturbating instead of watching the road. STOP JERKING WHEN YOU DRIVE PPLZ!

[Cloudane]

Most likely it's a busy area and they need a route for priority traffic like public transport and postal services. Not the impatient white van man (aren't they all) who thinks that for some reason he deserves to be at his destination quicker than everyone else.

Also - unless it's some old bloke being unreasonably slow, perhaps the driver in front is driving at a relatively low speed because he *does* have his eye on the road instead of spending all his concentration trying to be Michael Shumacker?

Tailgating doesn't help anyone. If the person in front has any sense, he will *slow down* in order to increase his stopping distance in front to compensate for you sitting up his arse. http://www.smartdriving.co.uk

[fire_of_avalon]

Yes, edlalalala, it is your fault. Now shut up.

It seems really, really dangerous to have these things installed where pedestrians are so close to the road. I've never been in any American cities where I think something like that would be useful, but it does make sense.

[Quindiana Jones]

Those bollards are the best thing ever! I saw that ages ago and laughed! If I could, I'd just sit next to them, waiting for the idiots in cars.

But tailgating. I don't drive, but I do do it. On a bike. Otherwise I get really knackered in a headwind.

[Little Blue]

The Royal Mail is the British postal service. As for why they only let some vehicles in, I don't know. I know that there are places where only buses and some other types of vehicles are allowed, usually because its a busy area where buses often stop to unload a lot of people and since these types of roads can link important sections of the road network people may try and use them as shortcuts, eventually leading to massive congestion with the sheer number of buses passing through and general traffic that would pass through if they thought they could. In this case though I thought I read that it was in response to several casualties along this stretch of road so they limited it to public transport and other public services.

[Ender]

That's awesome! I hate being tailgated, and thus never do it myself.

I even hate tailgate walking...I usually wait for things to clear out so I don't have someone leaning all over my back in hopes that they can light their cigarette .2 seconds sooner. :rolleyes2