Are you putting those people into a box? 😉
No wonder cyclists are hated
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Are you putting those people into a box? 😉
Neal is actually now a cyclist, he recently got a road bike. However, in past he has done a bit of victim blaming in his comments.
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
Latest one I saw where he was giving bad advice to a pupil regarding cyclists was two months ago. He is, imo, a bad driving instructor passing on an entitled attitude to those he teaches.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
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- Z’ha’dum
Just been to M&S for some shopping
decided to walk for some exercise which means walking down the main road past our estate (housing estate - we are not landed gentry!!)
anyway - the road has a path at the sid e- normal pavement except that it is also a cycle path - if you know where to look for the sign
anyway - it is the weekend and a morning so it is "normal" for cars to park on the path to leave the road clear
The path is about 5m wide (I measured it!) and the cars generally park with a few feet of path left on the road side so the driver can get out easily
which means there is not that much space left between the car and the wire fence on the golf course side - enough for a bike to get past but only if the bushes are not growing out too much
anyway - back to the point
I was walking alongside a Tesla that was parked there perfectly "normally" and there was a loud crunching sound as a teenager (about 17-18) went past me quite fast and went over the dried leaves by the fence
Yea Gods he was close and fast!!
Now I just put that down to a misjudgement by a kid on an ebike (legal - probably)
but I can see why some people might use this to judge every cyclist on that path
(see above post about boxes!!)
decided to walk for some exercise which means walking down the main road past our estate (housing estate - we are not landed gentry!!)
anyway - the road has a path at the sid e- normal pavement except that it is also a cycle path - if you know where to look for the sign
anyway - it is the weekend and a morning so it is "normal" for cars to park on the path to leave the road clear
The path is about 5m wide (I measured it!) and the cars generally park with a few feet of path left on the road side so the driver can get out easily
which means there is not that much space left between the car and the wire fence on the golf course side - enough for a bike to get past but only if the bushes are not growing out too much
anyway - back to the point
I was walking alongside a Tesla that was parked there perfectly "normally" and there was a loud crunching sound as a teenager (about 17-18) went past me quite fast and went over the dried leaves by the fence
Yea Gods he was close and fast!!
Now I just put that down to a misjudgement by a kid on an ebike (legal - probably)
but I can see why some people might use this to judge every cyclist on that path
(see above post about boxes!!)
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
OP
OP
Bristolian
Über Member
- Location
- Bristol, UK
It doesn't directly, but it does add to the perception that all cyclists are complete ******** (insert derogatory name of your choice) so may indirectly affect the way other road users think about you.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
It should not be on the path full stop. Entitled git.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
In that case all the other people parked there were "entitled gits" as well
basically the whole road is filled with cars parked on the pavement whenever there are football teams playing on the park opposite
and if they didn;t it would cause problems for normal traffic on the road
so - no they should not be parked on the pavement
but there is no other parking (or not enough) for the park on Saturday and Sunday mornings
Park and walk. I'd hazard a guess that most could do with walking more.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
That would probably mean they park in our road - and that would also mean parking on the pavement
because every other car is parked on the pavement in the road anyway
(not at our end because everyone has their own drive - but the rest of the road seems to have a "local rule" that you park on the pavement to ease traffic problems)
That is the problem with bans on pavement parking - a lot of estates and such have one of these known local rules
They just have to walk further then. Owning a car doesn’t mean carte Blanche parking.
matticus
Guru
FTFY
midlandsgrimpeur
Active Member
The story that driving test waiting times are 6 months long is doing the rounds again at the moment (in spite of the fact they have been like this since the pandemic). It always makes me think this is a good thing, we should be encouraging less people to drive. I know we had the old (contentious) BR thread on public transport, but the more that can be done to encourage people out of cars for non essential journeys the better.
As an aside, one of the pieces I read was on some test centres that had the longest wait times. They also (I assume co-incidentally) had pass rates at 35%. If the pass rate is that low it surely suggests that far too many people are taking a test when they are nowhere near ready to do so and should be discouraged from doing so?
