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You'll never convince bicyclists that they too have a duty of responsibility, they want it all one way only - all the rights and none of the responsibilities.
Makes me sick. Oh I too am a bicyclist on occasion, and many many of them are pure scumbags, riding like its the tour de france, riding into pedestrians who dare to cross on crossings legally, the me me me only attitude. , I'd make it mandatory to pass some sort of test and have 3rd party insurance too. I'd also make it compulsory for them to use cycle lanes where they exist. So sick of these not using something that cost millions, eats into already sparse road space and then arrogantly say " you I'll ride where I like' freeloading ****. There's a reason these cycle ways exist, it's like pavements, its to separate different speeds of traffic. [Admin Edit(Mick): Offensive, filter avoiding Language removed] |
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So, you're proposing that every child who has a bike should be qualified and licensed? Well that'll help with the child obesity and clean air problems :rolleyes:. [Admin Edit: Quote of previous offending post removed] |
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I have no problems with most cyclists, kids on bikes you are aware of, give them space as they really aren't (fully) aware of the danger even when they have taken proficiency training. Kids usually do take care and are mostly out during the daylight and don't ride on really busy roads.
Other commuter riders again usually take care and are responsible. But (like with car/lorry/van) there are those who should know better but don't and in a match between bike and large metal box on wheels bike will lose. Like the idiot I nearly hit one night riding on a dark part of road at a roundabout wearing hi-vis black on black, black helmet, thin black bike with black lights and reflectors. He did have priority but that really wouldn't have helped if I hadn't seen him. "My right of way" famous last words. |
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A new(ish) phenomenon has arrived in our city. Buses were being held up by slow moving traffic, so whole lanes were marked for bus use only. These "bus lanes" started to breed rapidly, allowing buses to whizz around much faster than the rest of the traffic. Then taxis were allowed to use them.
Then bicycles. And it all went wrong. Held up by slow-moving bicycles in their lanes, buses and taxis started to leave their sacred space and join the files of slow moving traffic. But now, of course, there were fewer lanes for all this traffic, so major jams developed. The council reacted in many locations, by adding another lane.... the p̶s̶y̶c̶o̶p̶a̶t̶h̶ cycle path, between the kerb and the bus lane Some cyclists started to use them, whizzing around, often faster than the speed limit. And then the carnage started. People stepping off and on buses via the cycle path. Would the cyclists give way? Not often. |
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I think you get good and bad just as you get good and bad drivers. I don't usually say anything to cyclists however annoying they can be they deserve to use the road if they want but just last week at a set of traffic lights, I got out my car and asked one very kindly to stop using my car as a leaning post honestly that is what he did and I could not believe that he thought it was okay to stop along side the back of my car and put his hand on my car while waiting for the lights to change. I must say he was very polite and said sorry to me but then again I asked him nicely if he would be so kind and remove his hand from my car.
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I've been run into by more than one cyclist who thought that the red light didn't apply to him and seen many more skipping lights and nearly causing accidents. Some of them just don't.
One of the cyclists that ran into me while I was crossing even got off his bike and tried to punch me after I called him a few choice names but he seemed to think I was at fault. |
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