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Old 30-01-11, 08:19 PM   #31
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It wasn't brown trouser stuff but bad enough to act as a reminder. Thought the guy was sensible, I'm afraid to say I would have been sorely tempted to kick the door panel of that beige car pulling across to park at about 1m 30s.
The Red lights are an advisory option in Ireland, aww go on now, tis just a wee light doncha know.
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Old 01-02-11, 10:56 AM   #32
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Well all my riding is virtually central London and that didn't seem too bad.

It could be worse

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And not one single collision. Maybe all junctions should be the same way over here. I can't remember which country it is but there is one where they took away the priority traffic law at cross-roads and made it a who dares wins situations. Apparently it worked very well with accidents going down instead of up.
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Old 01-02-11, 01:51 PM   #33
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And not one single collision. Maybe all junctions should be the same way over here. I can't remember which country it is but there is one where they took away the priority traffic law at cross-roads and made it a who dares wins situations. Apparently it worked very well with accidents going down instead of up.
I know there's an Asian country that goes by with no laws for traffic. It's been adopted by a few European cities as well. See here : http://www.tressugar.com/Removing-Al...-Sense-1739759

Interesting quote from the article : " Local police say that without rules, people — wait for it — think for themselves (!) and communicate more and assume the responsibility of powering a huge pile of metal. "

Seems to be what people need in general : to remember that no one is above anyone else. Which is in a way what happens : people don't care about others, thinking they're more important. I now of a study (I'll search for it if it's a must...) that proves that introducing laws of traffic eventually leads to people trying to leverage the advantage certain laws give you.
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Old 01-02-11, 02:22 PM   #34
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what was he even riding?

Didn't seem too bad to me, as Rictus says, must just be a case of where you live. Definitely agree with it being a bit of compulsory viewing on the CBT.
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Old 01-02-11, 02:32 PM   #35
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Few months back i had stopped at a roundabout when a 60ish driver swerved round me from behind because she hadnt seen me!
Peg was banked over going round a roundabout to pull in at Ferrybridge services, getting ready to pull into it. Had to jam on when he was faced with a bag load of cars breaking quickly due to some stupid bat coming out of the services the wrong way! You can't see over it, due to a big plot of trees in the middle

It clearly has two big NO RIGHT TURN signs on the exit of that service station...being on a huge roundabout and all that
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Old 01-02-11, 03:20 PM   #36
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on this note, did anyone see bbc news this morning with the guys head cam on his push bike? van turned left across him, the van hit him and then the guy jumped out the van and tried to belt the hell out the cyclist. he eventually got prosecuted and fined, but still bad, there was a tanker driver overtake him on a small island and kept going round, the cyclist had to jump onto the island to save his life.
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Old 01-02-11, 03:58 PM   #37
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And not one single collision. Maybe all junctions should be the same way over here. I can't remember which country it is but there is one where they took away the priority traffic law at cross-roads and made it a who dares wins situations. Apparently it worked very well with accidents going down instead of up.
Exactly, they're so confident it works they don't even need lids!

Interesting idea that about how traffic laws might actually make things worse.
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Old 01-02-11, 04:17 PM   #38
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on this note, did anyone see bbc news this morning with the guys head cam on his push bike? van turned left across him, the van hit him and then the guy jumped out the van and tried to belt the hell out the cyclist. he eventually got prosecuted and fined, but still bad, there was a tanker driver overtake him on a small island and kept going round, the cyclist had to jump onto the island to save his life.
Yeah I seen that, the van didn't hit him btw he banged the side with his hand when the c**t of a van driver deliberately moved over knowing full well there was a cyclist there.
The tanker was fecking scary cos that guy had no idea or cared there was a cyclist.
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Old 01-02-11, 07:10 PM   #39
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Every time I have a close call in the car (and I've had quite a few so far this year, many due to people doing stupid stuff on roundabouts) I try not to think about how it could have gone had I been biking.
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what was he even riding?

Didn't seem too bad to me, as Rictus says, must just be a case of where you live. Definitely agree with it being a bit of compulsory viewing on the CBT.
looked like one of them big yam scootery things. burgman or something?
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