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I am not against driving at all, and believe that this is good for the economy and for the wealth of the nation. However I feel that as a regular cyclist, I sometimes feel totally afraid when cycling, beacuse during the rush hour you have motorists overtaking you in the non-cycle lanes (fine) and undercutting on the inside left off the slower traffic. Not only this they cut in front of you while you are moving and cut across you to turn left with scant indication of their intentions.


I have not mentioned the red light transgressions I have seen when a motorist is speeding through traffic just to pass the red light to get ahead and save a few valuable seconds just to get caught at the next set of lights.


I have sat at light in an ASL zone, centred and intending to continue straight on and when I checked behind all was was clear, and most drivers were ok and let me go, but a driver who was on the inside lane whizzed past me and turned left in front of me and sped off. Luckily I saw him in time, but then it would have been me at fault #bloodycyclists.


I feel that there needs to be some regulation or training for drivers or some sort of identification methods to monitor rogue drivers (irony alert - there already is yet it doesn't stop some drivers behaving dangerously) As they are road users and they request the same rights privileges as other road user, but some do not want to adere to basic traffic regulations.


Remember they are using the highways for free, yet we are paying for it's maintainance. I would love to hear your views.

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