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Posted: 13:55 - 25 Jul 2012 Post subject: Cyclist attitudes. |
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Reading about the Zil Lanes in under on the beeb and they posted this tweet from some idiot.
Quote: | "If London can give up some road lanes for the Olympics, it can give them up for good. After the Games, turn them into cycle lanes." |
I often see this kind of nonsense coming from various cyclists aswell as call from some to ban all motorized traffic in London.
This sort of thing gets on my Tits are well I think the quote
Quote: | In his company's magazine, Add Lib, Addison Lee chairman John Griffin sparked widespread anger by suggesting that cyclist death and injury is inevitable as cyclist numbers increase, and is largely the fault of untrained cyclists. |
Is fair and app. I know 3 people hurt cycling up London, ALL cycling up the inside of Buses/HGVS, which even I, having cycled in London once know is a big no no. 90% of them even have warning signs on the back of them.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/apr/24/addison-lee-protest-boycott-chairman
https://www.eta.co.uk/2012/07/18/ban-cars-every-sunday-make-way-bicycles
Take the Girl that hit Serendipity too, another moron plugged into an ipod, with no training breaking the law cuasing an accident which she will never pay for.
Anyway back on point after my mini rant, I feel an easy comparison can be drawn between us and cyclists. Too me it would seem they have vastly more extremist views as to how they should be treated compared to us. You never her bikers coming out with that kind of crap, we just deal with it. Why do cyclists feel like the world owes them something? Comparatively they should be given less seeing as they pay no road tax.
I can't believe there was outrage that they aren't allowed in the Olympic lanes either. The lanes design is to give them the Olympic crew fast road travel in the capital. Being stuck behind a cyclist doing 10-20mph is not conducive to this, allowing motorbikes would be a better idea as there footprint is similar to a cycle yet they have the speed to not be in the way. Did bikers get up in arms about this despite being a more logical choice to be allowed in the lanes, no, oh well that sucks I'm changing my route to work (which today was actually much quicker than before strangely).
All the Zil Lanes I have seen have been in the outside lane to where cycles rarely go so what's the big deal, they are affected less than the rest of us.
We put both up with the same shit from blind drivers and a quick glance at stats that show hospital admission due to road accidents in London shows that we have a similar chance of ending up in hospital - Cyclists 231, Motorcyclists 236.
I have no problem with cyclists in London in general, I don;t think they should be off the road, I do think Insurance and number plates are a good idea, but I see that is impracticable and never going to happen. I just think their horse is VERY high, with an unstable base.
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They are so damn uppidy about it too.
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Don't they still do the cyclist thing for kids in school? I remember being took out in a group at a young age with a load of other kids on hi-vises going through road safety etc.
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They still do it, I know because the local school runs theirs directly outside my front door. It's a very good idea, it should be compulsory for anyone riding a bicycle (perhaps as a one-day course for adults, on your own bikes, costing about £40? a bit like CBT as has been said), and the police should be able to demand the document proving it's been done, and confiscate the doc necessitating a further course. Failure to produce the doc should result in bicycle confiscation. Children under say, 14, should be allowed to ride on the pavement and be exempt as long as they do so. In Oxford at least I've seen the police stop people riding on the pavement, or at night without lights, or jumping lights. The usual response is to blatantly just wait for the copper to move on, then carry on their merry way. At least this way they'd have a consequence to their actions. It'll never happen of course, but if I ruled the world.. *sigh* ____________________ - CBT: 02/01/11 Theory: 26/04/11 Mod 1: 19/05/11 Mod 2: 19/08/11
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I am a cyclist who often goes through red lights and I understand that it causes anger from some people, the problem is there are people like that fuck-wit that knocked down serendipity who need to be culled and there are people who intelligently look at a situation like that, if that were you or I on a motorcycle we would slow for the end of the lorry and check round the rear of it not just poodle along as if there is not a care in the world. That behaviour will ultimately get you squashed. Motor or not.
If motorcycles were given the power to go through red lights then I would imagine 99% of the time it would be easy to judge whether it was safe to go or not. When you get to know the traffic lights and their order of working it becomes very easy to look for danger from one direction and it also makes it easy on a cycle to avoid that danger as a bicycle is a tiny target to hit in a car/bike.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 11 years, 277 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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