theboytaylor
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Charlton, London
But the lane puts you on the left, next to the curb. Is this always the right place to be?
What happens if you don't use it when it's provided for you?
See your point, but (unless he staged this all as a demonstration of the problem ) Origamist doesn't seem to be the type to blindly follow the CSH because it's there, so his road position - I am guessing - most of the time would have similar to the one he's taking in the vid. I'm sure from Origamist's posts and chatting to him that he's not the type of cyclist to be influenced into doing something that will cause him more inconvenience solely because it's been put there for cyclists to use, so he would most likely have been on that part of the road, blue or not, and the driver would have been just as likely not to see him.
On the whole I am sceptical of the true value of the SHs and am always wary of this type of specific provision as it entrenches the "you should be there" mentality of certain people. I was just making the point that this type of incident may have happened on any road in any conditions - it seemed irrelevant to me that this was on the CSH. Nit-picking, I'll admit, but I'm bored and my self-edit function isn't working so well today!