True. But the juxtaposition of what is considered newsworthy resonates with the airlift of dogs out of Afghanistan. An action that i find even more hard to stomach than I did at the time.
After a quick read, I saw something about "a hand held job", humm, imagination in overtime!!! Read in the paper recently rules in Highway Code were changing, cyclists, and pedestrians now have right of way on the road. Yesterday going to my sons, there is a busy junction, in the main London road, in Town. My light turns green, I am turing right, THEN from my left comes a bloke about 60 riding a bike with a dog on a lead, taking up the whole road, because of the length of the lead, I slow right down to let him go, then the lights turn amber, he's going really fast, then the car in front of him/me, stops suddenly, no indication, on double yellow lines, within the chevrons of a pedestrian crossing, he just cycles up on the busy pavement, I have to jamn the brakes on.
I've said it before @Nanny Beach - if cyclists expect the protection/courtesy on the roads - they should be taxed, insured and have to have a registration plate, like every other road user. That way, when they perform the kind of cunning stunt you mention, they can be held to account, just like the person stopping on the double yellows should rightly be held responsible for an selfish manoeuvre . Will that happen. No. How can it ever be enforced too. The nonsense about cars giving way to someone waiting to cross at a junction is a recipe for disaster too IMO. I wonder how many more dodgy insurance claims there'll be, and all the premiums will go up. Call me cynical, but are they just trying to get all cars off the roads completely?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We were out yesterday, entered a roundabout and two idiots on cycles pulled out in front of us from the next road on the left. Even with the new idiotic changes they don't have right of way in that situation.
The worst change in my opinion is telling cyclists to ride in the centre of their lane. I can see the lycra louts now leaping with joy at the mayhem they are about to cause.
Couldn't agree more @KT53 - far too many of them don't abide by the rules of the road as it is I've nearly been run over twice in recent months because some drivers already don't understand I have right of way when I'm already crossing a road, and that's on fairly quiet roads. I hate to think of the carnage that'll arise from this. There's no chance I'm going to expect a driver to stop for me at a junction. I'll be doing the same as I always do, unless they wave me across, if it's safe for them as well, which does happen. I do the same when I drive, but only when it's safe for me as well.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Having theoretical right of way once you are crossing a road won't help if you step out a few yards in front of a 40 ton HGV. The Green Cross Code, and the way I was taught prior to that, said "and then, if all clear..." It didn't suggest looking and then playing chicken with approaching traffic.
I've said it before @Nanny Beach - if cyclists expect the protection/courtesy on the roads - they should be taxed, insured and have to have a registration plate, like every other road user.
I've said it before @Nanny Beach - if cyclists expect the protection/courtesy on the roads - they should be taxed, insured and have to have a registration plate, like every other road user.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60091753
Will that happen. No.
How can it ever be enforced too.
The nonsense about cars giving way to someone waiting to cross at a junction is a recipe for disaster too IMO. I wonder how many more dodgy insurance claims there'll be, and all the premiums will go up. Call me cynical, but are they just trying to get all cars off the roads completely?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've nearly been run over twice in recent months because some drivers already don't understand I have right of way when I'm already crossing a road, and that's on fairly quiet roads. I hate to think of the carnage that'll arise from this. There's no chance I'm going to expect a driver to stop for me at a junction.
I'll be doing the same as I always do, unless they wave me across, if it's safe for them as well, which does happen. I do the same when I drive, but only when it's safe for me as well.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...