glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Ok on a motorbike it's really not uncommon to sit between two vehicles at a traffic light. you take off ahead of them as motorbikes are quick off the mark, unless a cyclist parks directly infront of him in an empty cycle box.
As I've said, I could have stayed stationary but then traffic behind may have followed the vans very closely. I took the decision to move ahead and go into an empty cycle box contravening the highway code.
So you placed yourself in a dangerous position in the expectation that you'd be able to be "quick off the mark" from the lights beating the vans either side. It shows very poor roadcraft to do that, and some arrogance, to assume that the empty cycle box will remain clear for your benefit. As it turned out in your scenario, a legitimate user took up position in the box in such a way that you chose to illegally abuse a facility that is there for the protection of cyclists, not you.
How you can feel it appropriate to then join a cycling forum to berate a cyclist for properly using a bike box when you've done everything wrong in that episode is beyond me.
(I suppose there is the real possibility that you're enjoying yanking our collective chains and will fade away in a day or two.)