B.W.
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Cyclists can **** off...
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[Travel] Drivers could have to give way to cyclists under Highway Code shake-up
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Cyclists can **** off...
To be fair, I think our crossings work far better than in a lot of countries. In France/Spain/Portugal you quite often still have moving traffic when there's a green man, whcih can be very confusing.
I much prefer the UK system to the North American one. Drivers turning right across a pedestrian crossing is such a stupid rule. The amount of times you step out to cross the street and a car (usually a taxi) turns in front of you
studio150
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Have you tired it though, it is very easy to open the drivers door with your left hand without having to look for passing traffic
DumLum
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I personally don't like your cyclist agenda. Always blaming car drivers ffs.
However the dutch reach technique makes complete sense and I would be happy to see it made compulsory over here.
B.W.
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This is true... obviously not going to just mow down the cyclist...
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Odd, as I don't blame car drivers at all.
I am just pro-cycling esp when it comes to urban transportation.
Will drivers stop at red lights?
At the 'Homebase' junction on the Old Shoreham Road this morning, westbound, I watched 6 cars in the one go jump a red (not amber) light.
Why the arrogance to commit such a dangerous criminal offence? All to get to their destination 90 seconds earlier.
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They're not getting to their destination though, they are just getting to the next hold up, behind the same car in front, and in front of the same car behind.
banjo
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It always amazes me how they try and kill you, then for them to be held up again as you say. I’d like a cycling jersey with a photo of my kids printed on the back with the words ”I’d like to see them again today” printed on the back. You never know it might make them think I’m human after all.
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I'd say I get some form of harassment 3 or 4 times a year, that's all.
As said I always try and be a courteous rider, after all I'm the one that'll be deaded.
At that moment, assuming I'm not at fault, the red mist descends and I think 'this isn't over yet'.
Invariably I am able to catch the car up, making the issue in the first place completely pointless.
Nothing has changed, they are still in the same traffic, I am still on the road, only now we're 1/4 further on and I'm somewhat pooped.
banjo
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I'd say I get some form of harassment 3 or 4 times a year, that's all.
As said I always try and be a courteous rider, after all I'm the one that'll be deaded.
At that moment, assuming I'm not at fault, the red mist descends and I think 'this isn't over yet'.
Invariably I am able to catch the car up, making the issue in the first place completely pointless.
Nothing has changed, they are still in the same traffic, I am still on the road, only now we're 1/4 further on and I'm somewhat pooped.
They’d probably prefer a bullseye target on my back.
Murray 17
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So I guess when they cross the road from one pavement to another, motorists would have to give way to them!
B.W.
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Hmmm... so 99.9% of cyclists run reds, but you pickup on 1 example of cars doing it... right...
B.W.
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Cyclists can **** off...
B.W.
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No, just mow them down...
I've been scootering over 30 years . . . . but only bothered doing my full test a few years ago ( long story) the whole door thing is merely common sense, it was the only comment I got from my examiner after my test, you need to give more space to the parked cars . . . cyclists should do the same by default. In a car I always open the door an inch, then look before opening fully . . . cyclists ofter appear from no where, weaving in and out of parked cars, or hurtling off pavements on to the road etc.
I've had a bus run a red on me . . . .I was doing 30 mph . . . . empty road, lights red 200m ahead and changed to orange then green . . .I kept going and a bus hurtled out from the left, must have run the red 3 or 4 seconds after it went red.
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
I had a crash on holloway road in Islington a few years ago, we turned left into a side road and a young lady on a scooter shot up on the inside jumping a red light and hit me coming off.
She immediately got up and i got out of the car to check on her, she said she was fine, bloke behind me got out and said he saw her jump the lights and under take.
She then decided to lie down again on the floor, crying, we called an ambulance and the old bill turned up, she claimed she could not speak english or move......
I get delayed reactions and pain, but she was clearly in the wrong knew it, so played the poor I know nothing card.
Not sure how the insurance thing panned out, I know she was claiming it was my fault, but I never heard a pip out of the insurance, there was no damage to my car.
When she laid carefully down on the floor and claimed not to be able to speak english, I wanted to kick her fecking teeth in, making a mockery of people I know who have died in motorbike accidents...
Still angry about it.