A safety message for cyclists........

[snorri]

....on Twitter from the helpful people at the RFU..

RFU HomeTurf‏ @RFUHomeTurf 14h14 hours ago
Replying to @RichmondCycling @nickmurison @LBRUT
If cyclists take proper Highway Code safety precautions then they will be entirely safe.

 

[jefmcg]

That sign has been up for weeks. I've ignored it.

So I could have started a twitter storm over it? Damn, my social-media-fu is weakass.

 

[Drago]

If cyclists take proper Highway Code safety precautions then they will be entirely safe.

Precautions? Not sure how I'll stretch a condom over my highway code.

 

[classic33]

That sign has been up for weeks. I've ignored it.

So I could have started a twitter storm over it? Damn, my social-media-fu is weakass.

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Advisory only, no legal obligation to do so either.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Precautions? Not sure how I'll stretch a condom over my highway code.

Isn't it you lot that need protection from the Highway Code, instead of the other way around? (at least, that's the impression I get from previous CC threads)

 

[Lonestar]

Advisory only, no legal obligation to do so either.

As a point of inquiry where is that a written rule?

Just want a backup for when some know it all motorist pulls me up for this one.Cheers.

 

[ufkacbln]

As a point of inquiry where is that a written rule?

Just want a backup for when some know it all motorist pulls me up for this one.Cheers.

Road signs giving orders

Not listed.......


I once had a PCSO explain to me that this was compulsory because it was in blue with white writing:

Wasn't happy when I started complaining about the cars passing this sign and ignoring it...\\

After all if it was compulsory the all motorists had to comply and park, ignoring it and driving past was as serious as ignoring the cyclists dismount

 

[mustang1]

I like the way a sign for bikes is in the bike lane, yet a sign for cars is placed on the footpath.

 

[mjr]

I like the way a sign for bikes is in the bike lane, yet a sign for cars is placed on the footpath.

Yeah, I'd move that sign. I do it with others. Utilities companies are especially dangerous with their sign placements - Anglian Water the worst IMO, closely followed by Morrison Utilities and Mervyn Lambert.

 

[mjr]

Advisory only, no legal obligation to do so either.

It's an odd one. There should be a traffic regulation order closing the road for that sign to be used, but to get such an order, it should close the carriageway to motorists before it closes it to cyclists... and such an order should result in the no cycling sign (bike symbol on white in a red circle) being used.

So I suspect the roadworks are not legal under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1990 due to non compliance with the mandatory Code of Practice on Safety at Street Works. Report them to the highways authority's Street Works Officers and Sustainable Transport Team. I suspect you won't get those roadworks fixed because those officers are suffering austerity cutbacks in most authorities, but it might get the undertakers discouraged from future illegal works.

 

[jefmcg]

Road signs giving orders

Not listed.......

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa..._data/file/519129/know-your-traffic-signs.pdf

page 139.

 

[Milkfloat]

That sign should not be used in this situation - it should be used when the carriageway is closed but the footpath remains open. http://www.happycyclist.org/?p=1096

 

[Bollo]

Also liking the instruction to "cross with care". Why no "drive with care" sign?

 

[Drago]

Just another symptom of an ignorant Car-O-Centric society.

 

[Globalti]

Can anybody explain the OP to me? I don't understand it at all.