Every morning I come down Mersey Street, there is only room for one car to pass at the top where it joins Connsbrook Avenue, so someone has to wait patiently and allow cars to come up past them until someone at the other side shows courtesy and waits patiently. This morning four cars went down in front of me, so showing courtesy for the kindness of the van driver 100 yards down the road I stopped to allow him to come up the road. Cue the twat behind, fat yokel in a rangers top driving a Proton to plant his hand on his horn and gesticulate wildly. I lost the rag, turned round gave him the fingers and let five cars come past. It was my first ever case of road rage, I was hoping he'd get out of the car so I could swing for him, but he must have realised my annoyance as he took a detour down one of the side streets so that we wouldn't reach the Dee Street lights beside each other.
Lack of courtesy and thought for other road users is my biggest gripe. At the approach to the Dee Street lights there are three lanes, the right hand one goes into the Harbour and continues past The Odyssey, the middle lane as I understand it is for heading towards town on the bypass and the left hand lane is for heading towards Holywood along the bypass past the airport. Every morning retards use the left hand lane to swipe on to the city side bypass, other reprebates use the right hand lane and swing down behind the tankers to head city bound. It's utter chaos, made worse by tankers coming on to the bypass after filling up in the Harbour Estate. Often the tankers end up in the right hand overtaking lane as they leave the lights at Dee Street because that was the only lane which was free. Impatient drivers all go in to the inside lane and overtake on the inside. It's obvious that a tanker with a full load of heating oil is not going to be able to accelerate very fast, so tuck in behind and wait for him to get into the inside lane.