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- jgilmore0
Fucking good on him.
- 23kon0
Bluejam
A polite question ....
What gives YOU the right to be able to run a red light when other road users would get SEVERELY prosecuted for doing so?- Cyclists will argue it's to get ahead of the other traffic
FFS, you's already get a little area at the front of the traffic that allows you to get in front of them all waiting (then annoyingly hold everyone up).You can't argue about f*ckwit pedestrians stepping onto the road by the way. The green cross code tells you that you have to drive 100% aware of what other road users and pedestrials may or may not do and have to drive accordingly.
So not only do they have a responsibility to look out for you but you also have a responsibility to look out for and anticipate their actions.- What gives pedestrials the right to 'jaywalk'? The fact that they're not wielding a tonne of speeding metal?Nairn
- ..same goes for cyclists - we're not a significant danger to lesser road users, so we should be able to fight our wayNairn
- through traffic more than the driver of a car would expect the right to.Nairn
- Just because the last 50 years have favoured drivers, doesn't mean that's the Right way to do things.Nairn
- moth0
Bluejam - A blind man doesn't expect you jump a red light and that's what makes it a crossing. Having exceptions to rules on roads is simply dangerous.
If I had my way I'd issue you all with number plates and fine you at the same rate as drivers. Keep doing it - you should go to jail.
- moth0
pedestrials?
What is that Nairn? A prehistoric bird that walks like a Jay?
- Bluejam0
23kon
i run red lights when it's safe to do so. that's my number one rule on this matter. i never run them when people are crossing the road. sometimes i run them all, sometimes i don't. do i care that i'm breaking the law? no. will i continue to do so? yes. why do i do it? *shrugs shoulders* fuck knows, i'm just riding my bike.
- monoboy0
This is what we should all do...
- bolus0
hahaha
"skater haters should hobble back home and take their medication and watch countdown"
- rounce0
Bluejam: You say that you do it because you need to get ahead of the traffic you should be able to run red lights, but what about the cyclists that amble along slowly in either too high a gear or just because they're lazy twats in bus lanes, slowing down the 2 or 3 buses behind them down to 10mph (with 400m of clear bus lane infront of them). Only to run a red light so they can greet the buses behind with their cunt-slow pace once they've crossed the junction?
I'm all for cycling (I'm building a new fixie up at the moment), but someone is cycling on the roads they should follow the rules of the road and not consider themselves exempt just because they don't have an engine. Motorcyclists stop at reds, why shouldn't cyclists?
- Bluejam0
Rounce
I never said i run red lights to get ahead of traffic. getting ahead of traffic is slightly redundant in London since it's so slow to start with. i cycle principally to get to and from work. i know the distance and the time it takes me to do the journey. i run red lights to keep to that time, if and when necessary.and as for slower cyclists, to me they are another danger. as are black cabs (who by far, are the worse drivers in London), speeding bus drivers, people crossing roads without looking, speeding fixed wheel psychos (:-) ...etc.
fuck it, we all break rules, (one of) mine is running red lights from time to time.
- 23kon0
I know we all break rules when walking/cycling - jaywalking to get to work quicker, I even fanny about on my bmx on the pavement (ran into a policeman one day then got the feck outta there pronto).
I dont have a problem with slow cyclists or bmxers just slowly cruising around using pavements etc as they arent "on a mission".
these guys that shoot the lights are on a mission.They are just as much a danger to pedestrians or other road users as a motorbike or car is. Yes theres less metal and weight to cause carnage, but still a bike hitting you at 30mph+ would make a damn mess.
Theres no answer to this as car drivers are always going to hate hardcore cyclists who hate slower cyclists who hate pedestrians etc.
The thing I would like to see is cyclists being held accountable - so that if you spot a cyclist braking the law (just as you would a driver breaking the law) you can report them.
This would mean that some kind of number plate system would have to be in place as just giving a description of the cyclist wouldnt cut it.
This would be a massive thing to bring into place but it would bring some accountability to cyclists and if they had to sit a test with ROAD LAWS AND RULES in it to make them safer riders.
Failing that - police hidden at junctions famous for red light skippers and coming down really hard on them would be just as effective ;)
- janne760
i believe mylazy.sundays has got some hardcore pensioners in action...
- janne760
i believe mylazy.sundays has got some hardcore pensioners in action...