The most frustrating things that annoy Leicestershire drivers

Driving can be annoying. Even if you are happy with the way you drive, the other people on the roads can wind you up.

Full on cases of road rage are never acceptable, but it's hard to avoid at least mild annoyance on your daily commute.

We asked LeicestershireLive readers to tell us the most annoying thing about driving in Leicestershire - and we were not short of suggestions.

So these are the most frustrating places to drive in Leicestershire - and the other things on the road that wind us up.

'There is ONE right turn lane'

"The junction in Welford Road where you can go straight on to Morrisons or right towards Aylestone Road can be very frustrating - especially when it is busy.

"There is ONE right turn lane, but people in the middle lane ALSO TURN RIGHT; it's a straight-on lane."

'Cue colossal road rage'

"The junction of Walnut Street and Aylestone Road, by the Tigers ground.

"In the morning rush hour driving into the city it is ridiculously congested.

"It takes an age to get down Walnut Street to the traffic lights. Often when they go green you join Aylestone Road but then run out of carriageway because the line of traffic is backed up all the way from the junction near the prison.

"You find yourself sitting in the road trying to join the lane you want when the signals change again leaving you stranded and blocking the cars on green coming straight up Aylestone Road.  

"Cue colossal road rage between two sets of drivers who have done nothing but move off on green lights."

'That's before we start on the idiot drivers'

"Thousands of people driving cars who clearly have not got the ability to do so."

"Road works, 24 hour bus lanes, no parking, poor road surfaces, lack of parking, too many traffic lights and roundabouts and that’s before we start on the idiot drivers."

"The start of the M69 at J21 where the third lane suddenly disappears."

"People who press the button on the crossing with no intention of waiting for the green man."

"Driving in the right hand lane of a dual carriageway - because they’re turning right in a mile."

'Absolute nightmare'

"McDonald's Roundabout in Coalville

"Absolute nightmare. No room for cars to get around the island. 

"Just stay away."

"People who can’t drive properly, tailgaters, folk who think the speed limit can’t possibly apply to them
Plus the Idiots on their Phones"

"Two lanes merge into one on so many roads and drivers shove in front of you, survival of the rudest."

"Some drivers do not use their indicators so you have to guess where they are going."

"The lethal right turn on Braunstone cross roads."

"The amount of traffic lights."

'You can guarantee there'll be some bozo flying across the hatching'

"As you head out of Frog Island towards town there's a humpback bridge before the road splits into two lanes, both which can go straight on towards Highcross.

"If there's plenty of traffic - and when isnt there - you get a queue of traffic wanting to go left before the ring road.

"Every damn day some moron will go early into the right hand lane to try and jump the queue.

"Sometimes they even go before the humpback bridge.

"You take your life in you hands just trying to pull into the left lane at the correct time as you can guarantee there'll be some bozo flying across the hatching to save themselves 30 seconds."

'This after we've all queued'

"You know where drivers grind my gears? Humberstone Road.

"There are people who use the bus lane to get ahead then cut back in on A47 near the railway bridge.

"This is after we have all queued where the two lanes fliter into one."

"We'll all just wait patiently while you push in'

"If you want to go from Coalvile to Ashby, as you go over the motorway junction the lanes are very clearly marked.

"There's whacking great blue signs and fresh new white paint all over the roads saying which lane you need to be in.

"So why, every single time, is there some buffoon who drives over the roundabout before realising they're in the lane that heads off to the left towards Ashby.

"Don't worry, we'll all just wait patiently while you push into the right lane."

'I NEVER know which lane you need to be in'

"When you come off Humberstone Way from the roundabout onto the A594 (St George's Way) I NEVER know which lane you need to be in to turn right and stay on the A594 and not go down London Road.

"This means I (and others I have been told) always end up in the far right hand lane, which is right turn only onto Charles Street so I have to cut back into the middle lane and it annoys everyone behind me.

"Apparently, I am not the only one who does this and it ticks everyone else off no end."