New "Stay Back" sticker

[TheJDog]

Is this for real?

https://twitter.com/fussellface/status/491492276519325696

The wording on these is getting more and more strange

 

[w00hoo_kent]

That's quite a lot of text, although I'd welcome another paragraph telling you how sorry they are that they just overtook you too close and have put you in a dangerous position, with all their hundreds of pounds of safety equipment.

 

[TheJDog]

all their hundreds of pounds of safety equipment.

Also known as mirrors.

 

[PK99]

Also known as mirrors.

Plus, on new cross rail approved vehicles, sensors and cameras.....

 

[Garethgas]

I think they've got a damned cheek.
One of the problems with this sort of thing is it might catch on and soon everybody will have them in order to assume some kind of authority on the road.
A bit like the 'If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you' stickers.
Although an experienced cyclist would ride in his mirrors, an inexperienced one might not.
The onus is on the DRIVER to be aware of his surroundings at ALL times, compensating for his blind spots, not trying to absolve themselves of their responsibility.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I kind of like the 'if you can't see my mirrors' notices because it's a generic reminder about the blind spots on the vehicle. I've never seen them as an option to claim absolution. The 'Stay Back' bit of the stay back stickers is what causes me the most problems, it's not about saying 'hey, we're all sharing the road so let's be careful' rather it's 'if you come close to me, it's your own damn fault'. Possibly not helped by the fact that they are often (but not always) on vehicles that are being driven poorly anyway. Or maybe I just look out for them once I've been cut up by a van...

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Doesn't look real to me.

 

[raleighnut]

Doesn't look real to me.

I can see what you mean, slightly different yellow to the background but is it on the back of an HGV or is it photoshopped.

 

[Sara_H]

I spotted this on a bus in Sheffield today, in fact all the First buses in Sheffield seem to have them. I don't think these are as offensive as some of the TFL ones, but I do think its interesting that the vehicle in the image is a lorry not a bus.
The vehicle I took the photo of also had a share the road logo on.

 

[Roadrider48]

The irony being that you have to be up very close to read it.
They think it frees them of the responsibility if they kill you...."well, we had a sticker on our truck"

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Doesn't look real to me.

It looks like someone who's fed up with cyclists has produced the additional text to go beside the standard 'stay back' sticker so it appears to be TfL authorised. I wonder what their view on it would be.

GC

 

[mcshroom]

All these new signs are too complicated IMHO. Although not technically correct, I prefer the simplicity of the no entry sign on the left and this way sign on the right at the back of a truck

 

[slowmotion]

I came past a box van this morning which had a "Cyclists Stay back" sticker on the back door. On the side was another

"Pedestrians stay away from this vehicle".

No kidding.

 

[raleighnut]

Surely when filtering up the inside of a stationary vehicle (if there is adequate space) you are visible in their mirrors. Only a lunatic (or a London cyclist) would undertake a moving HGV/PSV.
BUT why do bus drivers think that the advance cycle box at traffic lights is also for them I've very often knocked on their door and said " that's a big pushbike ain't it"..............blank looks in return.

 

[Roadrider48]

Surely when filtering up the inside of a stationary vehicle (if there is adequate space) you are visible in their mirrors. Only a lunatic (or a London cyclist) would undertake a moving HGV/PSV.
BUT why do bus drivers think that the advance cycle box at traffic lights is also for them I've very often knocked on their door and said " that's a big pushbike ain't it"..............blank looks in return.

Not all London cyclists undertake moving large vehicles; or are we all credited with no sense because we live in London?