Standards of driving rant

[RetroPug]

I live in Oxford.

I don't feel like I even need to elaborate.

I'm northern.

You'll need to elaborate

They did a top gear episode where they drove into Oxford once...exaggerated but funny.

The whole city centre is taxis and buses only, because the city only goes out in certain directions to due flood planes for the thames to go around the city centre you either go out to the ring road or all the way to the forbidden zone, then back out and kind of zig zag around.

Oxford council are SHITE at repairing roads. There are bus lanes that buses don't use anymore as they are too rough and it shakes the bones of everyone on board and destroys their ticket machines. Suspension destroying pot holes are also not uncommon and are fixed by pouring concrete in, so they open up again next winter.

The worst by far though, is the people that live there. Coming back from work there used to be a minimum of three minor accidents on the ring road a week, sometimes multiple ones a day. Go down any side street and some of the cars have minor crash damage, you also see plenty of cars with huge dents/caved in areas still driving.

My first Gti6, mint 78k miles, just had cambelt done, full peugeot service history, full suspension refresh by previous owner, still had all original manuals etc. etc. was written off 3 and a half months after I got it by a woman hitting me head on in my lane, on a completely straight 30mph residential road. She admitted she was looking at her sat nav.

A few weeks before it was written off, someone else took my wing mirror clean off, and someone sat on the bonnet and dented it overnight.

Literally nobody there can drive + narrow, awkward streets. It is a bad recepie.


I'm moving to Warwickshire tomorrow.