Keep Left Bollards

[Vikeonabike]

Are they an instruction for motorists to knock cyclists off their bikes?

I get more trouble in this 200 yard stretch of road than anywhere else on my commute!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I suppose it's an exercise in displaced lunacy. Highway engineers realised some time ago that a proportion of drivers would always drive like idiots - blind overtakes, wrong side of road - at junctions. So what did they do? They gave them the opportunity to drive like idiots before the junction. The road problem has simply been moved up the road. The driver problem has not actually been addressed.

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

....and motorists wonder why we get upset.Doh.

 

[snorri]

I can't see the video, just a black rectangle


Edit. I can see it ok now.

 

[Vikeonabike]

Hac
[QUOTE 1751626, member: 45"]Book him Danno!

The stock answer is that you should be further out approaching that island to put following vehicles off doing that, but on fast roads like that it requires a lot of nerve[/quote]
Have to say I usually am. However, in this case he doesn't start his overtake until he is over the chevrons.... If i had been further out I think it could have been a very nasty accident!

 

[addictfreak]

I am finding that in a lot of cases, when I take a strong position at these pinch points motorists are overtaking on the other side of the road. I just can't understand their mentality.

 

[Edge705]

Argh Driver slalom poles. The only way ive effectivly dealt with this type of driver mentality is drift centre gradualy at least 50 yards from the bollards force the vehicle behind you to stay behind you this is the only effective way I find to deal with this type of obstacle by staying left your offering up an opportunity to idiot drivers like the one in the video to squeeze past. Most drivers would not do that sort of overtake but unfortunately your not to know that so my approach is to be aggresive and command the road where I feeel I might get pinched out obviously if your not confident enough to do this wont help but I take your point these obstacles are a nightmare for cyclists

 

[400bhp]

I hate that feeling when you are approaching pinch points and you can hear a fast moving car approaching from behind, and there is no change in engine note or brake/tyre noise.

 

[Hip Priest]

There's a similar one near Newcastle aiport which I hate. I now always approach it in a very strong primary, but often a driver will just put his foot down and bomb past on the wrong side of the bollard (oncoming traffic permitting), which is almost as bad.

As 400bhp says, it's very unnerving to approach one of these things and hear a car hurtling up behind you.

 

[growingvegetables]

Cyclists are cheaper for council road engineers - much cheaper than installing proper speed control measures.

 

[buddha]

I am finding that in a lot of cases, when I take a strong position at these pinch points motorists are overtaking on the other side of the road. I just can't understand their mentality.

Same here. And this morning some idiot overtook me, in to the path of an oncoming bus!

 

[BentMikey]

Are you going to have words, Vike?

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Are they an instruction for motorists to knock cyclists off their bikes?

I get more trouble in this 200 yard stretch of road than anywhere else on my commute!

Typical white an man - freakin' idiots with little or no regard for other road users.
Tony

 

[Vikeonabike]

BM, Unfortunately I can't! Because I was involved I am now being told I can't do PNC checks (data protection). So I have to raise an incident and a collegue to investigate. Intend to do it when I'm back on duty on Wednesday... My boss is going to get annoyed with me rasing incidents for road traffic offences!

 

[Domestique]

Take it to the police and put with them. Really its a couple of hours of your life to stop an idiot like the WVM.
I think it gets worse now the nights and mornings are lighter.