RedRider
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It would feel a bit cheeky to cross a crossing on my bike but I'd be annoyed and mutted about priorities if I was fined for doing it.
Inertia..I agree, we are all responsible for ourselves. But on cycling forums like this you often get the "Sheep effect" where people like to gang up on everyone who isnot a cyclista motorist and blame them for all the ills in the world.
Steve
It would feel a bit cheeky to cross a crossing on my bike but I'd be annoyed and mutted about priorities if I was fined for doing it.
The lights Pat is talking about sound confusing. No wonder people get caught out.
Steve
Yes, I did not know you are not allowed to ride through on those kind of lights, until my friend got fined. Now I dismount. In defense of the police, I think they have performance targets to reach, like traffic wardens.
Did the OP's friend know they shouldnt have done what it was that got them fined? Tho I suppose saying that, you could say its the expectation that the OP's friend should know whether they should or shouldnt I guess, so either way really they deserve the fine.
No pavement cycling: we have shared pedestrian/cycling paths (that are in effect pavements) clearly signposted as such, but if you need to cross, sometimes there is a crossing with a bike traffic light, sometimes not. Apparently you are only allowed to ride across if there is a green bike traffic light, otherwise you have to dismount and walk across.
There's one of these lights at the Morrison's in Johnstone, on the cycle path. Never really paid much attention to it, so I've never noticed the green bike not being lit up when the pedestrian green has been lit.
I'd prefer them to fine motorists who ignore amber or red lights.