Highway Code changes.

[Citizen's Nephew]

Re: Highway Code changes.

in my entire 25 years of driving a motor vehicle on this countries roads, the longest individual time I've been delayed by being stuck behind a cyclist is probably about 2 minutes tops.
I've never understood why people get so angry about that, lighten up, what were you going to do in those 2 minutes?

The average length of time it takes to read a JamesWales post is longer than that! Mr J!

[JamesWales]

Re: Highway Code changes.

The average length of time it takes to read a JamesWales post is longer than that! Mr J!

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[JamesWales]

Re: Highway Code changes.

The average length of time it takes to read a JamesWales post is longer than that! Mr J!

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[JamesWales]

Re: Highway Code changes.

The average length of time it takes to read a JamesWales post is longer than that! Mr J!

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[JamesWales]

Re: Highway Code changes.

The average length of time it takes to read a JamesWales post is longer than that! Mr J!

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[JamesWales]

Re: Highway Code changes.

The average length of time it takes to read a JamesWales post is longer than that! Mr J!

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[Citizen's Nephew]

Re: Highway Code changes.

Average

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[Croesy Blue]

Re: Highway Code changes.

If someone is late for dropping their kids off for school because there is a cyclist on the road it isn’t the cyclists fault is it?

Getting wound up and angry about it is pathetic, the number one reason I wouldn’t cycle on the roads. Immature idiots who should know better getting wound up and not knowing how to drive.

[JamesWales]

Re: Highway Code changes.

If someone is late for dropping their kids off for school because there is a cyclist on the road it isn’t the cyclists fault is it?

Getting wound up and angry about it is pathetic, the number one reason I wouldn’t cycle on the roads. Immature idiots who should know better getting wound up and not knowing how to drive.

It may or may not be pathetic, but it's a part of life, and someone being late because someone else is tootling along and not allowing people to pass will still encourage more rage, stress and incidents.

Better to live in the real world!

[The Bloop]

Re: Highway Code changes.

It may or may not be pathetic, but it's a part of life, and someone being late because someone else is tootling along and not allowing people to pass will still encourage more rage, stress and incidents.

Better to live in the real world!

Given the amount of space drivers should leave when overtaking cyclists, your rage should be directed at vehicles on the opposite side of the road, preventing you from overtaking, and not at the cyclists themselves.

[JamesWales]

Re: Highway Code changes.

Given the amount of space drivers should leave when overtaking cyclists, your rage should be directed at vehicles on the opposite side of the road, preventing you from overtaking, and not at the cyclists themselves.

It's not rage...it's trying to prevent rage.

Cars on the other side of the road aren't holding anyone up though are they, whereas a cyclist in the middle of the lane going slowly, quite possibly is.

Don't pretend it's not an issue. It is. It may be arsehole drivers or cyclist being obstinate - point is, we all need to share the roads, and courtesy is needed on all sides, and if someone can safely cycle to the side, they should - and 95% will.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Highway Code changes.

With the building of new houses close by, the very narrow road which takes you from Pentrebane to St Fagans was getting busier at the time I moved from the area four years ago. That road had stretches where it was impossible for cars driving in different directions to pass each other and it was often a tight squeeze where they could. Similarly, the busy road from St Fagans level crossing up to Culverhouse Cross is very narrow in places. On both roads there is no pavement and yet it's not that unusual to come across people walking along both roads (I've done it myself a few times).

Furthermore, it's not very unusual to come across people riding horses on the Pentrebane to St Fagans road - is the expectation that any car that is behind a pedestrian or horse rider on that stretch of road should remain so for the whole of the mile or so before the road widens a bit? Good luck with that when it means that, in my experience, it takes about fifteen to twenty minutes to walk that stretch.

[Whisperer]

Re: Highway Code changes.

They can change the Highway code as much as they like - no one enforces the road rules anymore, apart from parking. I ain't been pulled over for a good 35 years.

[lardy]

Re: Highway Code changes.

They can change the Highway code as much as they like - no one enforces the road rules anymore, apart from parking. I ain't been pulled over for a good 35 years.

How regularly are you breaking the law?

[delmbox]

Re: Highway Code changes.

Just in case Delmbox wants to know where I've been between 15:34 and 23:27...... I've been in work.

I honestly didn't know you were this sensitive I will never tease you again