Lemmings Come Out At Lunchtime.

[beanzontoast]

Derby is truly dreadful for peds stepping out without thinking. I think it's because so much has been pedestrianised, they forget there are actually still busy roads going through the city centre. Only last week some woman with shopping bags, sunglasses and her mind elsewhere stepped out straight in front of me in the Wardwick. I skidded to a halt and accepted her apology for taking several months off my life.

 

[Poacher]

Jeez, Jezston, you're a bit harsh about the natives of Derby! We have plenty of sheep pedestrians in Nottingham, particularly on Upper and Lower Parliament Streets. Mind you, I suspect many of them would admit (under torture, naturally) to have wandered over the border at some point.




Have you noticed how Derby folk t..a..l..k r..e..a..ll..y s..l..o..w..l..y? Since we all have similar output equipment, I must assume it's a central processing speed problem. Lights blue touch paper and retires to native Lincolnshire.

 

[Jezston]

Upper Parliament Street, even the crossing by the Victoria Centre has NOTHING on the Wardwich/Victoria/Albert Street section through Derby for pedestrian asshattery.

I was asked to stay late at work last night. Ha! No way I was going to be riding through Derby city centre at 9:30pm on a Friday night. Considering how daft the residents are when they are sober I dread to think how they'll behave when drunk

 

[2Loose]

You need to try riding through Sneinton in rush hour, or any hour tbh.
Four zebra crossings within a 300m stretch, but the 'people' completely ignore them and seem to think that the green cross code is to look at the rear of the car up the road while yanking a couple of under fives into the road, making drivers and cyclists cross.

I really hope Derby is worse, but I doubt it.