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Bring back the Green Cross Code

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Is it me or are pedestrians becoming bolder and/or stupid ? I commute by bike and regularly have to play chicken with pedestrians wishing to cross the road. A typical scenario is this: person standing on the right hand pavement ahead of me. Pedestrian sees me and a car that is behind me and starts to cross the road. Car overtakes me by which point the pedestrian is standing in the middle of the road. As soon as the car has passed the pedestrian they continue to cross the road heading for my path. End up within touching distance of my right as I go past. And it?s not just me as a cyclist, I regularly see people standing in the middle of the Old Kent Road (2/3 lanes on each side) waiting for a gap in the traffic. What I also find disheartening is that often it?s parents with children doing this ? whatever happened to road safety education ?


I belong to the Green Cross Code man generation and I must have worked for me: ?Find a safe place to cross away from parked cars??


I don?t want this to be seen as a diatribe against pedestrians but more of a comment on the lack of Road Safety Awareness education.

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Whilst we are the subject of road safety, I think that the cycling proficiency test should be reintroduced and mandatory for all. I won't bother going into all of the crass examples I see displayed daily by our two wheeled combatants of our public highways.......
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Not sure how you could make it mandatory RC. TBH I find the constant fighting between the factions (cyclists/car drivers/pedestrians) etc quite weary on this forum. I am all three and I see transgressions every day, I cycle and yes I see loads of cyclists jump lights and others (ninjas) that wear all black and ride without lights. I see drivers on their mobiles, drivers that don't signal left, last night I saw a guy on a motor scooter trying to text one handed whilst riding around the Bricklayers Arms roundabout. There is fault on all sides.

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