Cycling on dual carriageway and car beeps...
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roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Some dual carriageways are so safe, cycling is positively encouraged by the authorities with the provision of signage and even an occasional white line.
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Another cycle friendly dual carriageway near me...
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
No roads are "safe".
Life isn't "safe".
Do your own risk assessment and take your chance.
For me, I try to avoid any busy roads no matter how many carriageways, lanes, or whatever it might have. Too many over aggressive, entitled, drunk, stoned, inattentive, incompetent, distracted, phone using, unlicensed, uninsured, disinterested, disqualified, and whatever other type of fellow road users are out there. And the busier the road, the greater the chance of an encounter with one of them, which for a cyclist is unlikely to end well.
None of this stops me cycling, but the older I get, the less I like it (same goes for driving and motorcycling to be fair) and the more fussy I get about where I will cycle.
Life isn't "safe".
Do your own risk assessment and take your chance.
For me, I try to avoid any busy roads no matter how many carriageways, lanes, or whatever it might have. Too many over aggressive, entitled, drunk, stoned, inattentive, incompetent, distracted, phone using, unlicensed, uninsured, disinterested, disqualified, and whatever other type of fellow road users are out there. And the busier the road, the greater the chance of an encounter with one of them, which for a cyclist is unlikely to end well.
None of this stops me cycling, but the older I get, the less I like it (same goes for driving and motorcycling to be fair) and the more fussy I get about where I will cycle.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Roads are completely safe.
Roads are benign. Potholes and missing bridges aside, they aren't out to get you.
It's those with whom we share the road that cause the danger, and any risk assessment should be conducted accordingly.
Roads are benign. Potholes and missing bridges aside, they aren't out to get you.
It's those with whom we share the road that cause the danger, and any risk assessment should be conducted accordingly.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
I'm not been funny, but is farking massive and crosses the Tees down by the docks, how can you not find it?
grldtnr
Senior Member
Brandane, that seems a very concise list of drivers faults, very much describes 99% of motor vehicle operators, but you left out other inattentive cyclist, disabled wheelchair Scooterist, and pretty much all those 2 wheeled e- scooter riders,
Domestos kills 99.9 % of all known germs, offer them a quick 'nip'
Just to get in before anyone else does: does the bridge masquerade as a castle at all?
- Location
- Inside my skull
When they were building that before it was open. They hadn’t put a bridge across it for the existing footpath right of way. We descended the bank, crossed what is now the bypass, at which point a Range Rover comes flying out the depths of the tunnel. We continued up the opposite bank and ignored them. We were on a right of way and there was no order closing it.
Punkawallah
Über Member
Right up to the point when they aren’t :-)
Punkawallah
Über Member
Oz and the boys moved it to the States, didn’t they?
albion
Guru
- Location
- South Tyneside
Well, it last ran in 2019, though the comments reminded me of 1979.
And 1974, Terry Scott, it is said, thought it was a standard bridge and drove his jag into the Tees.
presta
Guru
Cycling down the A171 I could see it for miles, and assumed I'd have no problem, but when I was close enough for it to be obscured by buildings I found myself going round in circles, with people I asked shrugging and saying "dunno mate".
presta
Guru
I did the bit from Faversham to Canterbury when I missed the way into the bits of old road running parallel with it.
That "bridleway" lane is a common feature.of newer road construction but does need the highway authority to sweep it which can be hit and miss IME and all too often is occupied with grot.
