cupoftea said:
I would have thought sitting in a queue of traffic is possibly one of the most dangerous things you could do, you're trusting that all of the cars around you have seen you and that they don't view you as a convenient gap.
If you're in the traffic then the cars around you will see you; put yourself right in front of one car and right behind another, be visible, and you'll usually be seen. I'm not sure why you believe otherwise.
Moreover if there is more than one lane you’ll anger the drivers behind you as they see the lane next to them “speed” off and a gap appear in front of you, even if it’s only for 30 yards.
The usefulness of maintaining primary position is well established; its almost a cliche to say it, but you really
must procure for yourself a copy of 'Cyclecraft', and read all about
why this is usually the safest road position.
This might be ok in some places but not all. Surely the safest thing would be to move to the very back of the queue?
There are some places where primary position isn't safest. In the situation raised though (in traffic), its usually the best place to be, unless you're intent on filtering outside or inside of the traffic, but I reccomend that unless you're competent at making eye contact with people on the road and getting back in to primary, you shouldn't do this.
So Cabs you feel that if the resent amendment to the Highway Code had gone through it would have been sensible to break that law? Why?
I gave details for an organised, thought out campaign of civil disobedience; its a way of breaking the law while acknowledging what the law actually is. It is breaking the law and making it plain that you're doing so. It is challinging those who have implemented a bad law to change it. It is
not breaking the law for your own convenienve. More to the point, in such a scenario I'm suggesting breaking the law to improve overall safety, which is entirely unanalogous with (for example), red light jumping.