Padestrian Safety

[snorri]

hes a responsible cyclist like you or me.

Now you seem to have changed your tune, I didn't think you regarded all of us as "like you" last week.

 

[freecyclist]

Now you seem to have changed your tune, I didn't think you regarded all of us as "like you" last week.

No you are quite correct i was overly generous in my comment but hey my natural tendency is towards generosity and consideration.

 

[Dan B]

Is it acceptable for two elves to block a unicorn?

African or European elves? If they grip it by the tusk ...

 

[col]

The origional post is a good point really. People have more right to be on the road than vehicles do, so if people were walking on the road and holding cyclists up while waiting to overtake them, I think there are some who would take it badly.

 

[freecyclist]

The origional post is a good point really. People have more right to be on the road than vehicles do, so if people were walking on the road and holding cyclists up while waiting to overtake them, I think there are some who would take it badly.

No col apparently everybody is more than happy being blocked by pedestrians and more than happy following along behind until the pedestrian decides it ok to let them go. (although i do agree the op is a good point )

 

[StuartG]

The whole point is deference to a more vulnerable road or path user than oneself whether they are in the right or wrong. Kids are often in the wrong but it is our duty to look out for them in every sense of the word.

So cyclists should defer to pedestrians, motor cyclists to both and motorists to all. End of story really. And if you can't defer with good grace then you shouldn't be on the road, path or whatever. Sadly that last point is unenforceable (unless they use force).

 

[MissTillyFlop]

The whole point is deference to a more vulnerable road or path user than oneself whether they are in the right or wrong. Kids are often in the wrong but it is our duty to look out for them in every sense of the word.

So cyclists should defer to pedestrians, motor cyclists to both and motorists to all. End of story really. And if you can't defer with good grace then you shouldn't be on the road, path or whatever. Sadly that last point is unenforceable (unless they use force).

The the student loan company should defer to me...

 

[Bicycle]

This piece of arrant spoofery seems to have been believed by more than one reader. It is a joke.

The attitudes and actions described in the below post are completely at odds with the way I treat the highway.

I apologise for not putting some sort of spoof warning on it.

I was enjoying a blat round the lanes in my car the other day.

It was wet and visibility wasn't great, but I know the lanes so I was giving it a bit of welly.

Blind bend followed blind bend, so my heart was in my mouth more than once. If I'd hit anything, the damage to the front of the car would have cost a bit.

Anyway, braking as late as was safe, I swung the nose into a corner between high hedges and nearly walloped into two cyclists. The tail came round, but there was no contact.

Why they were cycling in the rain, i have no idea. Perhaps they lack any sense of what is dangerous. I thought them slightly reckless.

I missed them, as luck would have it, but it turned out they were only blocking my path because they'd been held up by some walkers.

I'd like to say the walkers make me even angrier than the cyclists. I'm not sure that's true.

 

[col]

Hahahaha yes I know the attitude of some on here only too well But I think the point here is, people have more right than any other vehicles to be on the roads, its just a safety choice that they make to use the path instead, not unlike a cyclist choosing to use a cycle path. But then the cyclist isnt forced by law to use the cycling path, just like people are not forced to use a path either. so I do wonder how some cyclists would react when held up on their training run, or commute by people walking in the road and making them slow and wait till there was a gap in passing cars to let them overtake. Or would they just push on passed and try to put the responsibility on the approaching cars coming behind them to slow down or even brake hard to allow this? Also would some cyclists give a full lane to the people walking on the road as they passed?

 

[MissTillyFlop]

I was enjoying a blat round the lanes in my car the other day.

It was wet and visibility wasn't great, but I know the lanes so I was giving it a bit of welly.

Blind bend followed blind bend, so my heart was in my mouth more than once. If I'd hit anything, the damage to the front of the car would have cost a bit.

Anyway, braking as late as was safe, I swung the nose into a corner between high hedges and nearly walloped into two cyclists. The tail came round, but there was no contact.

Why they were cycling in the rain, i have no idea. Perhaps they lack any sense of what is dangerous. I thought them slightly reckless.

I missed them, as luck would have it, but it turned out they were only blocking my path because they'd been held up by some walkers.

I'd like to say the walkers make me even angrier than the cyclists. I'm not sure that's true.

Cycling in the rain is dangerous?

And should we really be "swinging the car" round a blind bend in the rain, if it really is that treacherous?

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Hahahaha yes I know the attitude of some on here only too well But I think the point here is, people have more right than any other vehicles to be on the roads, its just a safety choice that they make to use the path instead, not unlike a cyclist choosing to use a cycle path. But then the cyclist isnt forced by law to use the cycling path, just like people are not forced to use a path either. so I do wonder how some cyclists would react when held up on their training run, or commute by people walking in the road and making them slow and wait till there was a gap in passing cars to let them overtake. Or would they just push on passed and try to put the responsibility on the approaching cars coming behind them to slow down or even brake hard to allow this? Also would some cyclists give a full lane to the people walking on the road as they passed?

If you want an uninterrupted training run, the only answer is to buy your own private estate. If you're on a road, you have to share it with everyone else.

 

[VamP]

I was enjoying a blat round the lanes in my car the other day.

It was wet and visibility wasn't great, but I know the lanes so I was giving it a bit of welly.

Blind bend followed blind bend, so my heart was in my mouth more than once. If I'd hit anything, the damage to the front of the car would have cost a bit.

Anyway, braking as late as was safe, I swung the nose into a corner between high hedges and nearly walloped into two cyclists. The tail came round, but there was no contact.

Why they were cycling in the rain, i have no idea. Perhaps they lack any sense of what is dangerous. I thought them slightly reckless.

I missed them, as luck would have it, but it turned out they were only blocking my path because they'd been held up by some walkers.

I'd like to say the walkers make me even angrier than the cyclists. I'm not sure that's true.

Yes, yes, yes, that's as may be, but what we really want to know is what car you were driving? Sounds like a good day out

 

[col]

If you want an uninterrupted training run, the only answer is to buy your own private estate. If you're on a road, you have to share it with everyone else.

Exactly.

 

[StuartG]

And should we really be "swinging the car" round a blind bend in the rain, if it really is that treacherous?

Precondition for trolling a cycling forum ...

 

[Lurker]

I was enjoying a blat round the lanes in my car the other day.

It was wet and visibility wasn't great, but I know the lanes so I was giving it a bit of welly.... Why they were cycling in the rain, i have no idea....

Perhaps they were travelling from A to B?

Or maybe they were just out on a leisurely ride to get some fresh air?

What we can say for sure is that they were out on a public highway and that you endangered their lives. Let's hope that at the very least you apologised to them and won't repeat the behaviour....