Idiot in car trying to make a point by driving down cyclepath

[r04DiE]

[QUOTE 4453008, member: 45"]No it wasn't.[/QUOTE]
Oh, hang on a minute; you're right. Sorry about that, I'm an idiot.

 

[russ.will]

Ah, the joys of the Cottenham/Rampton cycle path.

Lamp post & telegraph pole in the way? No problem.

You can read about its other features here.

The path was upgraded to its current state in 2008 when the Council decided they wanted to remove the free Rampton/Cottenham school bus whilst encouraging walking/cycling to school.

They quickly caved in to the wails of protest from the parents and agreed that the new path was indeed not safe.

And a mere eight years later they have been proved right!

I'll grant you, in isolation they don't look clever, but they are within the 30 limit and there is no provision for cyclists to share an off-road path from that point on until the other side of Willingham. That is the end of shared use provision north of Cambridge, but at least it is there and not just a painted line on the road.

Far worse is the new speed island (which would be just to the right of that picture) that forces even cars obeying the speed limit into the path of each other, courtesy of a blind bend behind that camera viewpoint. I have seen cars exiting the village having to mount the pavement pictured to avoid oncoming vehicles and as someone following, can honestly say that neither involved appeared to be speeding. Now, of course both could have gone slower round a known hazard and impatience (topical here) is the aggravating factor, but both were within the law. Road design is frequently no better designed than the cycling provision and in this case, has done nothing to slow traffic within the village. That is a greater hazard to the path users than those posts, which everybody knows are there. My 7yo mini-me has been managing to avoid them since he was four and he's a nut case.

He's also about to get a Frog Road 67 on Saturday, but I'll have to leave the CX tyres fitted so he can get to the MGB...

Russell

 

[russ.will]

Oh, hang on a minute; you're right. Sorry about that, I'm an idiot.

No, you're both idiots because you've wandered off into a debate that, if an outsider was reading this, serves to make us all look like idiotic bedroom keyboard warriors getting pissy over the placement of an errant apostrophe. Admittedly, good enough reason historically to start a war, but this is only the internet and you can't have the last word, which is all that seems to be bothering you....

So please desist, because when you filter out the signal from your nihilistic noise, there's actually discussion about behaviour that affects all of us going on.

Russell

 

[r04DiE]

No, you're both idiots because you've wandered off into a debate that, if an outsider was reading this, serves to make us all look like idiotic bedroom keyboard warriors getting pissy over the placement of an errant apostrophe. Admittedly, good enough reason historically to start a war, but this is only the internet and you can't have the last word, which is all that seems to be bothering you....

So please desist, because when you filter out the signal from your nihilistic noise, there's actually discussion about behaviour that affects all of us going on.

Russell

You're too late; I have already desisted, and I did try to take the discussion away from the thread, twice. And don't call me an idiot, its rude, and very keyboard warriorish. If you've got anything else to say then message me, please.

 

[russ.will]

Russell

 

[Goggs]

Ah, the joys of the Cottenham/Rampton cycle path.

Lamp post & telegraph pole in the way? No problem.

You can read about its other features here.

The path was upgraded to its current state in 2008 when the Council decided they wanted to remove the free Rampton/Cottenham school bus whilst encouraging walking/cycling to school.

They quickly caved in to the wails of protest from the parents and agreed that the new path was indeed not safe.

And a mere eight years later they have been proved right!

That's just embarrassing frankly. I like to think the worker told to do that did so then quit the next day, but I doubt it.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Its the Fens...nothing unusual about that

 

[Profpointy]

That's just embarrassing frankly. I like to think the worker told to do that did so then quit the next day, but I doubt it.

To be fair, someone has used a bit of initiative to add the extra loop to allow the cyclist to turn off the pavement into the road. Good thinking !
All these naysayers criticising cycle lanes. You should be grateful

You may not be able to polish a turd, but you can sprinkle it with glitter.

 

[Elybazza61]

Just have to say that I'm a member of that club and it's not the first time we've had 'issues' with drivers on club runs;even had a chap overtake then stop in front to berate us about blocking his way,didn't seem to realise that he had wasted about ten times as much time moaning than he was being behind us.

 

[Gixxerman]

Just have to say that I'm a member of that club and it's not the first time we've had 'issues' with drivers on club runs;even had a chap overtake then stop in front to berate us about blocking his way,didn't seem to realise that he had wasted about ten times as much time moaning than he was being behind us.

Isn't that often the case? It bemuses me that they are so irate about being held up for 30 seconds, but are then totally fine to waste 5 minutes berating the people who caused it. Baffling.