ed-m wrote:
where are the cycle lanes ?
on the pavement so you have to stop and wait to cross every side turning? and avoid hapless pedestrians who can't work out what the white line in the middle of the pavement is for?
Hmm
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Wildy
and those in-laws have always found UK pedestrians to be really daft on these. You do seem to see better discipline and respect abroad but it's probably that like my wife - they grew up with them and thus have more automatic respect when using them.
... well if I'm riding on one of these - I simply behave as I do in the car and give way to the pedestrian regardless. But then - find the pedestrian does not walk into my path anyway as
1. Ride as I drive with COAST
and
2. I give a little tinkle on my bell in much the same way as I may just give a very light tooty toot with the horn. (basically a "too-oo" as opposed to a "BLAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH _
TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT-T-TUT!:wink:
Feel better for that now - had one of those weeks,
Lurgies
not me - all my patients!
ed-m wrote:
on the road in the gutter where all the rubbish gets brushed to by the traffic? and often on an unhelpful camber?
Try Ambleside my friend. Now on my 200th letter of complaint over this and others in the National Park. Narrow and nasty and they think a 20 mph solves things...
Should not be there - it's to fill some target or other.
Bit like the NHS and the waiting lists which are still there really.
ed-m wrote:
oh and with sporadic drains for added spice? or you become invisible to cars turnng left and cutting you up?
Agree on the first one... on the second - we have to use ears to listen for the cars following us. I can tell from a car's engine what he intends to do and take what I think is a common sense COAST plan of action.
depending on the situation...
peyote wrote:
I think I've seen so many bad cycle-lanes in my time that I'd rather use a road than a cycle lane in pretty much 99% of my journeys.
The trouble with these things is that whoever puts them there isn't a cyclist and is simply paying lip-service to a LA "Policy on Cycling".
Oooh - you seen my letter to the council cretin here then.
Have challenged him to ride on that lane with me driving up behind him
Not sure if I'd apply COAST in this situation though.... boxedin: :stirthepot" But would show him as
and he would be
to point of
and
if he discovered at first hand how bad some of the so-called lanes really are.
I think I mentioned one headlined in a Manchester paper as a "Whelly Bad Lane" as it goes nowhere - literally. It;s on a residential and the paper reported the residents were pranging each other in cars and on bikes...
As you say
a
NO BRAINER