Little yellow Brompton
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The " traffic" is ,moving , all you are doing is changing what the make up of the traffic is, by adding one more from the right , at the detriment of those behind.
Flashing headlights!
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Little yellow Brompton
A dark destroyer of biscuits!
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- Bridgend
As I said originally, show me someone that does the falshing waving but and I will show you someone that hasn't looked in their mirror. either there is no-one behind them , so thay have saved no -one anythinh or there is X No in which case they have caused X people to slow, and X people to now to lose Y time at every junction , until the joining vehicle leave the route. Of course expereince shows that the driver who has benefited from the warm glow now wants to get his own warm glow, so then slows and lets out another at another junction , so those X behind are now held up by 2Y , and so it continues. As to choice, they could turn left instead of right....
Uurgh! You're a Trekkie? You can go off people pretty quickly you know.
Like it or not, Spock has lots to say on the subject of cycling, such as above plus:
"Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled"
and:
"Sustained Warp 7 would cause damage, Captain"
MisterStan
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*sticks fingers in ears* 'La la la la la, not listening'
How about a a road with traffic on both sides. There's a car waiting to turn right, but can't because the traffic is in the way. This causes a nice big queue. If someone slowed down for a second to allow him to turn, the delay would be minimal to non-existent, and it would save time for the car turning right, and the traffic that is queuing.
MisterStan
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I encounter this exact scenario each morning and evening at the crossroads near my office - on the whole, people do let other people out and it does usually mean that the traffic keeps moving pretty well.
hennbell
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That seams a little harsh,
I have not been paying particular interest to either user, but your reply caught me off guard.
T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
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Why? 100% spam account. Some of them Copy/paste posts and attempt to blend in, some copy/past and add links to single letters in the middle of a random word.
Some even advertise viagra.
PedalCat
I like sandwiches
Whilst doing a lot of van driving in recent times, i estimated that 85% of people i flashed out of a side road just sat there and didn't move (!).
Here's how junctions should work; no need for traffic lights
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM
Here's how junctions should work; no need for traffic lights
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM
hennbell
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- Lloydminster, Alberta , Canada
Why? 100% spam account. Some of them Copy/paste posts and attempt to blend in, some copy/past and add links to single letters in the middle of a random word.
Some even advertise viagra.
As I pointed out I am not familiar with the account, if is was advertising Viagra I understand the issue. When they just reply "airzound on full" it does not read as spam to a casual user.
T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
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It copying another post word for word is a subtle clue
I am afraid I also have a small issue with your blanket logic.
There is a busy road outside Oxford that is a pig to get across and on to from side turns. Some may have heard of it; the A40 - the particular point that springs to mind is by the Evenlode pub.
Constant traffice in Eastbound carriage (single lane / file at this point). There are always cars queuing to cross the East bound lane but they sit in effectively a filter lane as long as there are only a few of them.
So - I check my mirrors. If a gap behind me, don't worry they can cross after me. If piles of traffic as is the norm, and nobody has shown COMMON COURTESY ahead of me, then I will often flash my headlights a few times to show I am there, aware and noticed them
(We all know what I mean)Once I have slowed slightly and allowed the gap to form in front of me, alert drivers who are paying attention will 'nip' across my front in the gap. Numpties wont and I wont flash them again or stop! Within a few seconds, the gap will naturally disappear in front of me as I rejoing the constantly moving queue.
I sometimes think it is a shame that COURTESY and 'Be Nice' are not the first rules of the road - anyone else read 'The Second Coming' (John Niven) recently?
briantrumpet
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In India there are 315 fatalities per 100,000 cars. In Britain the figure is 7. (Figures quoted by Wikipedia from India's National Crime Records Bureau for the year 2010). Maybe traffic lights play a part in the contrast.
If you were being humorous, my apologies - but I've seen that video before as an argument for junction anarchy. Strangely videos like this tend not to show too many fatalities.
PedalCat
I like sandwiches
Maybe they don't. Consider the condition of the vehicles, condition of the roads, the greater numbers of pedestrians and cyclists....... and maybe many of the fatalities in India happen in places other than urban junctions