One way street

[Chris-H]

Up until a couple of months ago i was doing multi drop round Cambridge on a daily basis in a lorry and its very confusing seeing something coming the wrong way towards you up a one way street......but there are cycle lanes allowing bikes to do this,so although its legal its still dodgy,motorists just dont expect it.Be extra vigilant is my advice

 

[david k]

id say no

doesnt mean id always take my own advice

 

[HLaB]

If there is a one way street, wide, with good visibility, is it acceptable (even though it's illegal) to cycle the wrong way up it, knowing that if a car comes the other way you can easily and safely pull over without endangering or inconveniencing anyone?

A few years back I got caught out on a similar street, which had been two way when I was a lad. I pulled over and stopped every time I saw a car but the last car complained vigorously and I wonder if others did too (but less vocally). I don't think any transgression is acceptable no matter how safe and non inconveniencing, if it reinforces the stereo type for some (only cyclist rlj, cycle the wrong way up oneway streets, etc.

 

[RedRider]

(Just by the by, there's a short story by Alexei Sayle, "Who Died and Left You in Charge?' which touches on the issue.

If memory serves one character is a timid cyclist with a child on board who has rational reasons but a guilty conscience about taking a short one way stretch the wrong way to avoid a longer, more dangerous route. Another is a transvestite stepping out as a woman from Transformations near Euston, frothing and wishing death to rule-breaking cyclists. I've found an online quote from the story:

[size="-1"]"That really does make me mad," he says, clearly riled. "Careening through pedestrian crossings, going the wrong way up one-way streets, yet so smug and happily anti-social. And I can only say that being a cyclist myself.)

Anyway, for the OP's survey of opinion and speaking as a cyclist who never jumps a red light intentionally I confess there is a short one way stretch I regularly take the wrong way. I'm not proud of it but I'm not ashamed either and my admittedly self-serving thinking is possibly based on what deptfordmarmoset wrote.[/size]

 

[benb]

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Er no, please don't try and compare feeder lanes and riding the wrong way up a one way street.
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I didn't.