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of course it will run and run, here on a cycling forum we have a point of view expressed by a driver who has no clue about the point of view of a cyclist but makes some assumptions from the seat of a car, and goes on to express a variety of contradictory opinions, what do you expect?
And who doesn't even know if her vehicle's road legal.
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Should cyclists have to commute by car for a fair period of time before they can call out what they see as bad driving ?
No,because the risk posed by cyclists is neglible. The danger comes from motor vehicles so it's the drivers of motor vehicles who should increase awareness.
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I knew going into it, during the time I spent contemplating whether to make the post or not, that some folk would relish the opportunity to make needless pot shots, but I fortunately have an extremely thick skin.
I'm very sorry if you think I'm taking potshots, that wasn't the impression I wanted to give, I just wondered what road it was that you were delayed for several miles behind a cyclist was.
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I think it's coincidence, some days it's bad, some it's good, it's just happen to be bad because the tv show (I'm never referring it as a documentary) was on your mind.
When it's bad, you always get three.
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Perhaps I misjudged, but there was a challenge inherent in the way you asked the question.
Not really, I'm having trouble imagining how a cyclist could delay a driver on a rural road for several miles, I've never seen that. Also, I'm mid forties and not angry. More..peckish.
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^Clearly one that you don't know.
Quite.That's why I asked.
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Sometimes this is not possible, and I have to travel many miles behind said road user.
Sometimes you get stuck behind cyclists for several miles? What road is this?
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I have on occasions seen the entire lane and half of the lane for oncoming traffic filled
I've never seen that before, which road is it, you could probably trace the club and raise it with them, that sounds very unusual, cyclists have a natural aversion to cycling on the wrong side of the road because it can get hurty.
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Cynthia Barlow's statement today:
http://www.roadpeace.org/resources/PR_061212_War_on_Britains_Roads.pdf
The language of war is problematic for some. There is no doubt that a programme focusing on conflict
and danger between cyclists and motorists risks undermining an agenda of promoting cycling as a safe
and healthy activity. There are worries that it will put off some from cycling.
But there are others for whom their daily experience of using our roads, whether on bike or foot, leads
them to agree that a war is playing out daily on our streets. Whether that is through fear or intimidation,
or worse.
Whatever you think about a war on our roads, one thing is certain. Every day there are casualties. Each
and every day five people are killed on our roads, and over 2000 are injured. Lives are cut short,
unfulfilled, and many more families and friends devastated by a sudden traumatic bereavement.
We also know these deaths are preventable. Our transport system poses an unacceptably high risk to
vulnerable road users, and then our justice system treats them unfairly. Founded on road danger
reduction, we believe the solution to safer roads involves tackling danger at source, and that those who
pose the greater risk have a greater duty of care to others.
I hope that the one thing people will remember from The War on Britain’s Roads is that road deaths are
preventable. Last year 1901 people were killed on our roads and more than 80 000 were seriously
injured. We should not, cannot, tolerate this level of carnage on our roads and we don’t need to. We can
prevent this. Whether we are professional drivers, motorists, cyclists, pedestrians, or all of the above, we
all have the responsibility to protect others from harm when they share our space.Sorry for formatting, pdf copy didn't work.
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For the record, the front windscreen, and the side windows of the cab are not tinted at all. The vehicle is legal
Have you checked? It's not covered by the MOT, it would bump your insurance if you got a conviction, might be worth asking.
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stolen text.
a) You could be stopped and fined - you are effectively handing the police a 'reason' to stop your vehicle - the car could be impounded if it is considered dangerous to drive and/or could be given a prohobition order until removed!
Yep, it would be a Construction and Use offence, as using a mobile phone at the wheel is a CU80 offence.
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We will (it is road worthy as is though, it has passed an MOT since we've had it, and it's no worse than a van with no rear window ffs) but this isn't really the point. Ours is not the only one on the road. A thing with a tinted rear window is something that's quite easy to recognise from the rear, so as a cyclist I find it useful to be aware that the driver of such a thing may not have seen me if I'm behind it.
I, personally, am glad to have been informed. But maybe I'm biased in favour of my wife because she's just brought beer home from the supermarket.
Checks of tinted glass are not part of the MoT test. You might want to check your vehicle's road legal.
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You voluntarily bought a dangerous vehicle and would apparently blame any cyclist you hit.
You don't understand that a cyclist might able to see something coming that the driver behind can't. There's too much wrong with what you've written to address it all. -
That copper:
Bloke jumps a red:
"Oy! Come here! You jumped a red light!"
Foxy girl who jumped a red light:
Indulgently, with a chuckle
"Now, why did you jump that red?"
"The little man was on green!"
"Now, you're not a pedestrian, are you? What are you?"
Simper.
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It happened at about 8.20am on Commercial Road in east London, near to the junction with Arbour Square, the Met Police said.
A man was pronounced dead at the scene.
He was not been named and his next of kin have yet to be informed of his death.
The driver of the lorry stopped at the scene and has not been arrested.
Commercial Road - one of the main eastern routes into the capital - is currently closed in both directions between Jubilee Street and White Horse Road while officers investigate.
There are tailbacks in both directions.
In a separate incident, a cyclist was taken to hospital with leg injuries after colliding with a lorry and a car in Loampit Vale, Lewisham.
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Bang the van, slap the cyclist, what this thread needs is more testosterone.
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They could have showed how someone who lives in zone 3 and works in central London could save £130 a month by cycling. They could have highlighted how a rise in numbers has made things safer, I mean did you really feel encouraged to cycle by that programme? They could have done some proper reporting like a proper documentary that isn't just You tube clips and covered real stories like how the cops allowed Eilidh Cairns killer to kill again, or Thames Materials and Dennis Putz, a man who'd been banned from driving 16 times and got a job driving a lorry in London. Ask who insured him and did his employers know. Proper investigating journalism.
This wasn't proper investigating journalism, it was tawdry and cheap and not helpful, a lot of it was "Look at this idiot" when maybe it would be better to look at what actually makes roads safer. And it isn't a whistle.
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Cynthia Barlow, her daughter was called Alex.
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They showed the alley cat racing at the beginning, I think some other footage has been cut, there was more on the bike biz synopsis, but they're still showing shouty van bangers and clips of cyclists doing silly, but relatively safe things, and implying cyclists are idiots.
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Showing cyclists undercutting lorries implies they're to blame in collisions and that's not true.
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Someone breaks down crying, the money shot! This guy's mentally ill, he thinks he's some kind of avenger.
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What bikes are Johnny Law using please? They Smith and Wessons?
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This is twat meets twat on film. How cheap was this documentary? So far it's You Tube clips, then an ominous voiceover going "But there is another side to the story!" and cut to Sid Geezer, Cab no 554: "One time a cyclist gobbed on me".
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The cabbie's a twat:
"The cyclists didn't gesticulate so my overtake was safe!!"
LFGSS
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of fixed gear and single-speed cyclists.
No she isn't.