A cyclist's rant to incompetent road users...

Strider590

Watch a cyclist get left hooked this morning, woman overtakes cyclist then cuts across in front to park and pick up a friend....... The cyclist then decided the road was too dangerous and moved onto the path.

rev_henry

Strider590 wrote: »

Watch a cyclist get left hooked this morning, woman overtakes cyclist then cuts across in front to park and pick up a friend....... The cyclist then decided the road was too dangerous and moved onto the path.

In the past couple of weeks I've had 2 POLICE cars almost kinda do that to me. First one just decides to stop double parked in the cycle lane (wasn't a left hook, but I saw him stop there from down the road), second one decided to PULL SOMEONE OVER in the cycle lane. And this bit of cycle lane was where it had just come back down onto the road from the pavement so there was very little space to move out into the road to go round. What hope is there for the rest of us...

Col7777

I got pulled by the police a couple of years ago, they flashed me to pull over, I waved my hand to acknowledge and turned in to a side road, he was annoyed and said, "When I ask you pull over, I mean pull over not go on further down the road." I explained and said, "I thought it best I pull in here rather than block the road so other traffic can pass, I wasn't trying to get away or anything as I waved my hand to let you know I was going to stop."
All it was my registration wasn't showing up on his computer or something, I told him I had only had the car about 2 weeks, he then looked all around the car checking tyres then said, "OK, it seems all right sometimes our database isn't always up to date," but he was annoyed I didn't stop on the main road which would have cause more of a problem but he didn't seem to see that.

rev_henry

Col7777 wrote: »

I got pulled by the police a couple of years ago, they flashed me to pull over, I waved my hand to acknowledge and turned in to a side road, he was annoyed and said, "When I ask you pull over, I mean pull over not go on further down the road." I explained and said, "I thought it best I pull in here rather than block the road so other traffic can pass, I wasn't trying to get away or anything as I waved my hand to let you know I was going to stop."
All it was my registration wasn't showing up on his computer or something, I told him I had only had the car about 2 weeks, he then looked all around the car checking tyres then said, "OK, it seems all right sometimes our database isn't always up to date," but he was annoyed I didn't stop on the main road which would have cause more of a problem but he didn't seem to see that.

Stupid policeman. I once saw something similar - 2 policemen had pulled over 2 young girls in a porsche in the middle of the one way system, it was causing chaos but they seemed neither aware nor in a rush to get traffic moving again.

Col7777

Yeah, it's funny isn't it, if you stopped there they would move you on saying you were causing an obstruction.

jaydeeuk1

Move b*tch, get out the way,
Get out the way, B*tch, get out the way

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12604639

birkee

Imp wrote: »

Just to add, other than motorways and certain trunk roads, pedestrians can be on any part of a highway, byway, bridleway or footpath and have just as much right to be there as cyclists, and more right to be there than motor vehicles.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but were roads built for pedestrians? They were built for road transport, and the users are charged for using and maintaining (ha ha) them. Pedestrians were catered for later with footpaths, (unless there are none) which doesn't entitle pedestrians to walk on the highway regardless of traffic, that's what pedestrian crossings are for.
Where no pavement exist, it's up to all road users to use caution, and give consideration, but it indicates that road transport has priority over pedestrians, because they are not catered for. Walk in the mud off road like in the old days, if you don't like it.
I'll bet with your attitude, you've come close to causing a few accidents. (Or maybe you have.)

birkee

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

Oh look, another cyclists vs motorists thread.

Here are the facts - there are retards who drive cars, and there are retards who ride bicycles. Funnily enough there are also retards who walk around on the pavement, and there are retards who use buses.

Lets have a bit of consideration, eh? Oh and for the benefit of doubt, and to pre-empt any retards who start moaning about road tax, cyclists have a right in law to be on the road. Motorists do not. Roads are paid for from council tax. Nobody in this country pays road tax, we pay VED, and VED is banded according to co2 output. Bicycles emit no co2, so do not pay VED.

Pr**tt!
Road tax / VED / View sky tax / Exhaust tax....
how does the name get round the fact that motorists have to pay to be on the road?
Also, I think the original tax WAS for road building and maintenance, but now, only a tiny ammount of road tax (OK Pew...VED) is spent on that. Who decided to divert it to their use?Most of it get spent on other things now, likely to the benefit of people like Pew.

Strider590

^^ Cyclists and pedestrians have more right to be on the road than any other mode of transport, we are all born with that right and it cannot be taken away. Drivers however have to earn the "privilege" and this "privilege" can be removed at any time!

And yes the roads were built for pedestrians and cyclists AND horses over 100 years ago before the car was ever invented, footpaths came later to allow pedestrians to move away from increasing volumes of road traffic.
I think you'll find that the Romans built a lot of our roads, did they have cars? would you drive down the road shouting at a column of Roman troops to "GET OFF THE F*CKING ROAD, GET SOME ROAD TAX!!!!!!!!!!"????
It's a little thing called history.

The Americans however see things differently (jay walking), but that's because they have no history..... The country is but 200 years old.

A pedestrian in the road has right of way, whether or not there are pedestrian crossings... Try reading a copy of the highway code some time...

I pay my council tax, I pay to maintain the roads.... Everyone who owns a property in the UK, pays for the roads.

I pay a tax on owning a vehicle, I might not like it, but that does not give me the right to assume the road is mine! Almost every cyclist and pedestrian in the UK (except small children) has paid for the roads.

birkee

Without the need to move trade goods efficiently, and cost effectively, you would still be walking the same roads as those Romans did!
What motivation is there in providing facilities out of my pocket in the Midlands, to allow someone in a Cornish village to walk to the next one?

With the logic of strider590, there would be NO roads out in the country, just footpaths, and if you have every right to walk from A to B, and "nobody can take it away from you", then without the roads, you may well need to cross privately owned land, and they CAN take it away from you! Where does strider get this idea of a 'God given right', to do what he wants, which he accuses drivers as adopting? The only reason he can walk from A to B, is because much of the land was compulsary purchased to build roads, and it sure as heck, wasn't so that strider can walk where he wants......It was to move goods, and later, to allow transport of workers from scattered locations, to get to places of employment, not by foot, but usually by public transport.

As for drivers not having the right to be on the road, unless they earn it......well, they have the same right as anyone else to be on the road strider......they just have to prove that they are safe enough to control a vehicle without supervision. Your logic says, that even if you pass a driving test, you have no right to be on the road, unless the 'pedestrians' permit you to use it?
You have weird logic! "The American's see things differently, because they have no history"? Weird! Try telling them they must provide facilities for pedestrians to walk across the Nevada Desert, and see what being a pedestrian gets you.....an asylum probably. Oh, while you prove your qualifications for asylum, don't forget to demand cycle lanes too!