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Dangerous cycling charge to punish 'Lycra louts'

John247

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david_carnell

david_carnell

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Can I just point out that this bill will never become an act of law.


It's a Private Members Bill that will not see the light of day but is a good excuse for everyone, including the media, to get their knickers in a twist over.


Relax.....nothing to see here.

Gimme

Gimme

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Stats for 2009 (according to paper today):

Pedestrians killed by cyclists: 0

Cyclists killed by motor vehicles: 46


Good use of parliamentary time? Yes or no?

Would the time be better spent forcing lorries to all fit mirrors to allow them to see cyclists in their 'blind spot' or to make cyclist awareness training part of the HGV licence test?


Methinks the MP who is sponsoring this is an attention / headline seeker who thinks that this will boost their career.


What next? Laws banning people using mobile phones while driving? Oh yeah, that one is on the statute book but the police don't enforce it and so many people ignore it that the law might never exist...

That was another waste of parliamentary time!

Huguenot

Huguenot

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Most lorry drivers I've come across are incredibly sensitised to cyclists alongside.


I enjoy cycling, although not as a regular commute.


I do have a rule though - NEVER RIDE UP THE INSIDE OF A LORRY.


Do halfwits not look at this situation and go 'Oh my God, Danger danger danger.'???

Pearson

Pearson

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Huguenot Wrote:

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> I do have a rule though - NEVER RIDE UP THE INSIDE

> OF A LORRY.

>

> Do halfwits not look at this situation and go 'Oh

> my God, Danger danger danger.'???


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Agreed, i often thought this too.


However, i have experienced a couple of situations

where with little traffic around a lorry has come thundering

up to the green lights overtaking me very close to the

junction and of course turning left with me intending

on going straight over.


I would resent being called a halfwit had i mad contact

with that truck!

Huguenot

Huguenot

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A misunderstanding Pearson, there's a special place in hell for lorry drivers who pull that manoeuvre.


I was referring to the cyclists who roll up the inside of stationary traffic at red lights, and then squeeze (often with one foot on the kerb) down the inside of lorries trying to get an advantage.


It's lethal, and I've seeen it so often, from grown adults, that I'm incredulous.

Applespider

Applespider

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Nope. There was a skip lorry indicating left at a set of lights near Victoria this morning. There was a narrow cycle feeder lane into the ASL. The lights were likely to change within next 20 seconds but even knowing the phasing, there was no way to judge if 5 secs or 20. I stopped behind truck since didn't want to be alongside if the lights changed. Two cyclists arrived behind me and just continued up the narrow feeder. Thankfully they both made it to the ASL as the lights changed and the skip truck driver held off his turn til they were out of the way. But really... was a stupid move on both cyclist parts
rifleman harris

rifleman harris

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>I'd like to also see some 'incentive' for the minority of pedestrians who cross the road in front my bike with their iPod in or chatting on the phone.

>In the states it's called jay walking and the more I cycle/ride/drive in London the

>more i think we could do with something similiar.


I've been involved in umpteen accidents of this sort not just in my cycle courier days but even now. I mention somewhere else on this forum that I just brace for a crash cos most of the time if I brake hard I go over the handlebars and I'm damned if Im going to swerve around them and risk getting torpedoed from behind.

Gimme

Gimme

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Once cycling round the roundabout at Deptford Church St, I slowed as a cement truck thundered up to the roundabout as I was about to pass his entrance, and he drove straight onto the roundabout without looking, talking on his mobile phone. If I hadn't slowed, looking him in the eye to see if he was going to stop, I'd be dead.


My rule on a bike is that having right of way doesn't matter if you are under the wheels of a truck or a bus. Truck drivers should be much more aware of cyclists than they are but, more importantly, cyclists should be terrified, wary and totally suspicious of trucks. The cyclists have a lot more to lose than the truck drivers!

henryb

henryb

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Exactly - that's why all this time spent trying to legislate against cyclists on pavement is so infuriating. Being startled by a cyclist, although annoying, just simply isn't as serious an issue as people getting being crushed under the wheels of lorries. That *is* a real major risk to both pedestrians and cyclists and kills many every year - yet no legislative time is being given to making lorries safer and that actually would save lives. It's madness.
rifleman harris

rifleman harris

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>My rule on a bike is that having right of way doesn't matter if you are under the wheels of a truck or a bus. Truck drivers should be much more aware of cyclists than they are but, more importantly, cyclists should be terrified, wary and totally suspicious of trucks. The cyclists have a lot more to lose than the truck drivers!<


I extend that to cars and vans as well. I just cycle defensively. How many times I see a driver (car of lorry) about to pull out of a side road, look my way but don't notice me and pull out. If I don't cycle defensively I probably wouldn't be here now.


I think there should be an advertising campaign similar to the one regarding motorcycles.

Applespider

Applespider

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Very sobering... the online comments from motorists are even more so.


rifleman - there have been radio advertisements for drivers on looking out for cyclists although I suspect they play it more in the summer months. IIRC, it was a driver saying what he saw as he drove along - bus, roundabout, school, zebra crossing, lights etc etc until you heard a screech of brakes and a crash and then he said 'cyclist'

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