Green Cross Code

[Badger_Boom]

Context is critical before replying to this.

Poor choice of crossing less than 50m from the nearest pelican.

 

[mjr]

Poor choice of crossing less than 50m from the nearest pelican.

The pelican's in the wrong place, as usual, you mean?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

The pelican's in the wrong place, as usual, you mean?

In our area, they put them about 25M from the roundabouts, which means when they are on red the whole roundabout get clogged up.

 

[mjr]

In our area, they put them about 25M from the roundabouts, which means when they are on red the whole roundabout get clogged up.

And people actually want to cross at the roundabout, so no-one's happy? That's what usually happens in the UK.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I nearly took one out today.

I also wonder if the quiet roads of lockdown are what has led to a spate of zombies walking straight across side roads without looking. I seem to encounter someone doing this every time I turn into our street off the main road.

I certainly noticed that during lockdown when few cars were about....

 

[Drago]

If a zombie steps out in front of me I shout "TASER TASER TASER!"

That wakes them up

 

[matticus]

He was a red squirrel....

I thought that was the joke! :P

 

[Fab Foodie]

I thought that was the joke! :P

Oh....

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I nearly took one out today.

I also wonder if the quiet roads of lockdown are what has led to a spate of zombies walking straight across side roads without looking. I seem to encounter someone doing this every time I turn into our street off the main road.

If they are already crossing, they have priority and you should give way.

 

[Badger_Boom]

If they are already crossing, they have priority and you should give way.

I did, on every occasion, although they were 'already crossing' in the sense of continuing to walk of fhte pavement into the road, not halfway accross the junction when I arrived to turn in.

My point was that it used to be (well, I was taught it was) normal to look and see if a 3 ton 4x4 is bearing down on you, rather than trusting to luck that the driver is looking where he's going and/or aware of the same rule.

 

[matticus]

Like most things involving right-of-way, Duty of Care etc - both parties have some responsibility.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

rather than trusting to luck that the driver is looking where he's going and/or aware of the same rule.

Those things are responsibilities of a driver, not something anyone should be crossing their fingers for.

 

[Badger_Boom]

Like most things involving right-of-way, Duty of Care etc - both parties have some responsibility.

They do, but only one of them needs to be reminded that they are pink and squishy and that averting their gaze from their phone or the pavement for a split second could save their life. I keep a good lookout behind the wheel and avoid as many distractions as possible when I'm driving, but some people's lack of situational awareness (motorists, pedestrians and cyclists among them) scares the carp out of me.

 

[G3CWI]

a single look. They're all going to be mown down by silent electric cars, aren't they?

Nope. People are now actively campaigning for electric car to have a mandatory noise switched on at all times.

 

[hatler]

Please please please make it mandatory to have a clown car noise as the only allowable sound.