It’s so frustrating to see this every weekend, like mate where tf are you running so late that you’ve to literally get into a crash – oh hey did that help you reach your destination earlier 🤬 wankers
Why can’t we as an individual be more aware and responsible when driving. Y’all getting distracted, under influence, over/under speeding – do you really think it’s consequences are worthy of why you’re on road.
Thanks for letting me vent out.
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School holidays explained in a screen grab haha
Bring on self-driving cars to take humans out of the loop.
Why are you writing “y’all”, are you a seppo?
Oh no you don’t! That trampoline is mine!
Love the innuendo…haha
Because some people are aholes, impatient af, and cant drive. Its ridiculous.
I almost witnessed a crash earlier at Mt Gravatt because this ute wanted to drive faster than everyone else and drove SO CLOSE behind another car. Stopped at a red light, then reversed to move to the next lane. Like come on, its not your nans road?
A lot of people are barely sentient animals and as such they drive like animals.
People tailgate, don’t drive at the speed limit and struggle to merge.
Because Queensland drivers are low IQ shit for brains halfwit retarded morons .
Gold Coast line being closed hasn’t helped. Railbuses will be in this mess, too. They should make 1 lane each way of the M1 buses only when the railway line is closed.
Also, the #1 cause of motorway crashes is tailgating, and the main proponents of tailgating are Ranger drivers. Ban Rangers from the M1 on weekends, and watch crash rates plummet.
Sanic: Gotta go fast
Is this headline about Mt Cootha?
Even when there’s no traffic at night, people will ride right up you with their headlights in your eyes and no space for braking.
The most noticeable thing on moving from nsw to qld was the drivers.
Because when was a long journey fun without a little ramming up the ass?
because people have to be 50cm away from your rear bumper going 100kmh because it gets them there faster, der
Alternative routes in most areas would ameliorate this problem
Keep left unless overtaking is a thing of the past which is leading to fuckwits weaving through traffic to save 3 minutes on their 2 hour drive.
Everyone seems to like to sniff the butt of the car in front, it’s not surprising they end up crashing.
If everyone could chill out a bit and leaving reasonable following distances (2 seconds between is a good start) things would be much smoother.
But no everyone constantly pulls into my 2 second gap thinking it’s space for a car… Idiots. They don’t understand simple physics and reaction times.
I like highway roads filled with cars, trucks and motorbikes. Not at the same time though. Stagger to population to allow less traffic and chance of risk of collissions
Because Queenslanders are impatient fuckwits that don’t understand the meaning of a safe stopping distance. Gotta be one car ahead.
2 hour trip can take 3 hours because we finish work at the same time
The difference between getting there at 90 versus 110 is negligible, yet everyone on the road will ride each other’s arses the entire way leaving absolutely no room for error… at all. You’ll have the left two lanes leaving decent 2 second gaps, 3rd lane worse, while the right lane is essentially a long train of fuckwits trying their hardest to get… nowhere.
petrol price needs go above 5
I can’t wait for automatic self driving cars
Queenslanders love a good ass ramming…
Read any thread related to driving in Queensland and you’ll find a handful of people justifying speeding, tailgating, and other aggressive driving behaviours as a response to perceived slights or anyone driving at or just below the speed limit.
They are far from the majority. But it only takes a very small number of careless or selfish drivers to ruin things for everyone.
Plus the extra 1200 people a week to greater brisbane area. 60% from overseas. Traffic is getting worse. Busses very crowded. Pollaticians live in their bubble
Yup. Went past the Gold Coast yesterday lunchtime and a 2hr 20 min journey to Byron turned into a 4hr journey. 1hr 40 sitting in standstill traffic trying to get past the Gold Coast. Even funnier is some guy’s car a couple ahead of me couldn’t take the stop start traffic and broke down so everyone behind me woulda had it worse.
Because there are no ring roads.
It’s nothing to do with the individual drivers, they’re just scapegoats.
In reality, the road is full.
There’s roughly 100km of Pacific Motorway, 3 lanes most of the way, 100km/h most of the way (for easier maths). At 100km/h, each car takes up about 50m of road, assuming no one ever has to merge. Therefore you can fit about 20 cars per lane per kilometre. This means that the M1 can theoretically hold 6000 cars at any one time travelling at 100km/h
There are currently more than 6000 cars on the road, so there literally is not enough space on the motorway for them to maintain speed
The easiest variable to change is space needed per car, by reducing the speed. So that’s what changes first
Ranger danger most of the time, facts.
People are just so impatient and feel the need to be everywhere as fast as possible, often not getting where they want any faster anyway.
I was driving home the other day, approaching a red light. I was in the right lane and this Ranger came flying up on the left just to get to the lights faster than me for some reason. The left lane ended shortly after the lights and the Ranger driver just floors it to try and get ahead of me. I still got past the end of the lane before he did and then he’s riding my arse and having a tantrum because he wasn’t in front.
I get wanting to just get home in the afternoon after work but risking your own life and others isn’t worth it, if your ego won’t allow you to drive safely perhaps you shouldn’t be driving
Hey hey hey. No kink-shaming here. It’s the weekend.
Instructions unclear, ran up the arse of someone
Yatala pies aren’t as popular as they used to be 😂
Uuummmm… tailgaters? People hurtling along at 110, towing a caravan with their 2wd Hilux and a whole 2 car lengths from the micro in front of them?
The bullshit speed reduction signs on highway don’t help either, makes congestion worse and for greater distance.
There are good drivers in Australia watch them avoiding the shit drivers on YouTube crash cam videos.
Sir this isn’t a dogging sub
I blame a couple of things. Number, One of course is people not doing the speed limit. (Ie under speed in lane)
2: people jumping on the skids so they are 10k under the speed limit when passing a camera or road works etc etc etc. You know just in case.
3: F**king roadwork signs. 17,645 different speed limit signs in a 167.3m section of road, speed up, slow down. Slow down, speed up, slow down, slow down, speed up etc etc etc etc.
4: and whilst I now identify as a QLD’er Queenslanders cannot merge. It’s supposed to be a zipper effect.
And whilst I’m on this rant (thank you OP for now making it a stressful Saturday), why can’t people turn their f**king lights on when it’s raining or gloomy.
Judging by the comments so far, this is probably an unwanted opinion. All of those crashes involve at least two parties… it’s easy to assume all are tailgaters… and it’s just as easy to assume it was people hogging the right hand lane and not using it for overtaking. One party is just as frustrating to the other. During the commute periods, there are less lane hoggers and less rear ends. Mixing both lots at the weekend seems to cause problems. (Typo)
I’ve never been tail gatted as much since moving to Australia. Everyone is laid back but on the road its like Mad Max haha
Aggressive impatient selfish a holes tailgating is why
Too many rangers on the road
Took my motorcycle out today. 3 different occasions the same car almost killed me. People spacial awareness is shocking.
The 4×4 tailgaiting low IQ halfwits are the biggest risk on the road.
I walk my dogs at 0500 alongside a wide straight bit of road that’s normally empty…. until two cars (always two) come past, a bit over the limit, bumper to bumper.
I watch them fade away, bumper to fucking bumper and wonder what the fuck the tailgater is thinking.
Many bogan Queensland Drivers think every outing is a competition