Cycling: red lights

mazza111

thelawnet wrote: »

[/COLOR]Someone dented my car in the supermarket car park. Who paid for that?


Whoever dented your car should have paid for it.


I didn't say it should, but if you're so worried about cyclists denting your precious car, then that would be a route you could go down. You raised the subject, I offered a solution, you don't like it, so whose problem is that????

What solution is that? That motorists pay more for MIB? I Think motorists pay more than enough for insurance to cover uninsured drivers etc.

I pay for the MIB. Most 'cyclists' also own a car and pay 'road tax' (VED), petrol tax, insurance, etc. on that. I know I do. There's no point in trying to separate 'cyclists' from 'motorists' financially because while most motorists do not cycle, most cyclists do drive.

Some I would guess, not most

If my car is sitting in my driveway and I'm out cycling on the road instead of driving, while you are busy driving everywhere, by my reckoning I'm subsidising you.

You are totally right of course. I can't cycle, I have a disability. How the hell does that make u subsidise me? What are you paying to subsidise me, please explain that one[/QUOTE]

It's your choice to ride a bicycle. If you're fit enough to do it, good on you, but how dare you criticise me for needing to drive. And just for your information, my car is precious to me, even though it's an old banger. It's my old banger. That doesn't give cyclists or anyone else the right to damage it. The insurance is a personal view.
The red light jumping is a legal view which is what the OP was about. IT'S ILLEGAL