Please make the tube strike stop

[martint235]

My commute was scary this morning...... traffic was heavier than usual but the number of cyclists out with very little control over their bikes made me flinch. I was expecting problems from the Boris Bikes but must admit I didn't see any of those do anything weird. It was the Brompton riders who must just use their bikes to get from one end of London Bridge platform to the other. I was sure one was going to end up under a truck but after a screech of tyres and the hiss of air brakes, lo and behold off he went without a care in the world, I'm sure he didn't actually realise he'd just cut up a huge tipper lorry...

I'm on a course and off the bike for the next few days so hopefully sanity will have resumed when I next commute....

 

[BentMikey]

Completely the wrong attitude mate. Love the wobblers, the more of them there are the better it is for us, however annoying it is. Just think how drivers are being trained by the wobblers to give us all more time and space. Safety in numbers.

 

[martint235]

Completely the wrong attitude mate. Love the wobblers, the more of them there are the better it is for us, however annoying it is. Just think how drivers are being trained by the wobblers to give us all more time and space. Safety in numbers.

Ok I hadn't thought of it like that. I'm worried that once the rush hour kicks off properly though, some of them are going to get hurt!!

 

[BentMikey]

I think that's unlikely - see that recent study about how risky cycling, at least by perception, wasn't very risky in reality.

 

[CharlieB]

Love the tube strike - it's forced me into doing the full 32m.

Mind you, for ten miles of it, it's not the wobbly cyclists I need to worry about - it's the deer that suddenly appear out of the hedges crossing the road, the indecisive bunny rabbits (hop hop hop, 'oh 5hit, a cyclist, which way shall I turn?'), and the lumbering badgers.

Yup, the roads into London are chaos, though this morning. Why MUST motorists persist in single occupancy, especially in tube strike conditions?

 

[stowie]

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I don't, I'd rather have fewer cyclists on the road that can actually ride a bike rather then many who can't.
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Not exactly the way to increase the popularity of cycling though? Everyone had to start somewhere - I remember my first cycle rides, hardly textbook.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Everything running smoothly out here in the sticks!

 

[BentMikey]

Amusingly, a lot of my mates didn't bother to take a Boris bike as they knew it would be pointless. They skated in instead, only to find that skating was faster than boris biking. Ahahahahaha!

 

[jonny jeez]

Love the tube strike - it's forced me into doing the full 32m.

Mind you, for ten miles of it, it's not the wobbly cyclists I need to worry about - it's the deer that suddenly appear out of the hedges crossing the road, the indecisive bunny rabbits (hop hop hop, 'oh 5hit, a cyclist, which way shall I turn?'), and the lumbering badgers.

Yup, the roads into London are chaos, though this morning. Why MUST motorists persist in single occupancy, especially in tube strike conditions?

Lovely as that all sounds, I really do maintain that riding in a city is a whole lot safer than riding in the country. (on the road) aside from suicidal bunnies, badgers and livestock of all flavours, I find drivers in the sticks are far less aware of cyclists and drive soooo much faster.

What tube strike?? (joke) I honestly didnt notice much difference at all this morning (except around constitution hill and the arch)

 

[CharlieB]

Lovely as that all sounds, I really do maintain that riding in a city is a whole lot safer than riding in the country. (on the road) aside from suicidal bunnies, badgers and livestock of all flavours, I find drivers in the sticks are far less aware of cyclists and drive soooo much faster.

Can't disagree with you there JJ for most of the day, but at 6 in the morning there's nothing about apart from the wildlife.

This morning I crossed the M25 on an overbridge at 6:30 and already it was at a standstill.

 

[scouserinlondon]

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Traffic jam all the way from Clapham to Kennington!
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With lots of people just flinging themselves down the inside of busses and large vehicles with no actual escape route at the other end.

I'm pleased to see more cyclists on the road, but a high concentration of first timers like today is scary. Big respect to the 155 bus driver who must have had eyes in the back of his head on that stretch.

 

[clarion]

Lots of noobs on bikes this morning, though, tbh, I had more problems from regular commuters barging through like idiots. Unfortunately, and much much more dangerously, there were a lot more cars on the road, and many of the drivers seemed to have no idea how to drive in heavy traffic.

My commute follows the Northern Line from Tooting to Elephant & Castle, and it was totally gridlocked. Not much movement apart from cyclists between Balham and Kennington, and hardly better beyond that.

 

[CotterPin]

I work from home so don't have much of commute these days but chose today to go over to Regents Park to do a few loops before I started work. Took me a little while to work out why there was such a traffic jam all the way to Camden. Then the penny dropped! The people I felt most sorry for were the folks milling forlornly around bus stops in the hope that they would eventually get on one of them.

 

[ChrisKH]

I had three Boris bikes go past me yesterday; the first was wobbling all over the place, the second was jumping up and down the pavement on Bishopsgate and the third was going the wrong way down a one way street (adjacent to the Gherkin) which is heavily used by construction traffic. I could understand it if they were hooded chav's but these were middle aged men in suits.

 

[StuartG]

I could understand it if they were hooded chav's but these were middle aged men in suits.

These are the blokes who steal look after your savings. But better the wobblers, kerb jumpers and RLJers on bikes then behind a wheel. That way they can hurt no one but themselves (until they get to work!)