Punishment passed by an utter cretin. Seethe.

[Boris Bajic]

It is unpleasant and startling behaviour and similar (but less threatening) things have happened to me and my cycling kids just beyond a one-way section that many locals think starts a hundred or so yards earlier.

We walk a few yards of one-way on the pavement (to save a long slog after training) and re-mount where it goes 2-way again. So, so many people clearly think the one-way section is longer despite clear signs.

Top marks for not swinging out a foot. It feels good at the time but is not the smart answer in the long run, particularly as anyone driving for 42 years will be elderly-ish.

 

[ufkacbln]

Tap camera and thank them for facilitating their own prosecution!

 

[recumbentpanda]

I have this problem locally. The railway line that cuts my 'burb in two is crossed by two single track bridges, each 'one way' in a different direction in the sense of 'no entry' at one or the other end. Lost count of the times I have been lectured by kind taxi drivers and others as I remount after wheeling my bike over, that the whole road leading up to bridge is one way, and hadn't I seen the signs? The signs of course, exist only in driver's head. Lots of people who live and park along the road would be quite surprised to learn that they are only allowed out over the bridge!

Having said that, I was wheeling back across one of said bridges when I saw a man on a bicycle start to very confidently ride across the wrong direction. As it is a humpback bridge with a bend immediately before and after visibility is not good, and I know a lot of motorists take it way too fast. I was just about to scream 'dont do it mate!' when sure enough a black 4x4 appeared, approaching thankfully, at a moderate speed. The cyclist refused to acknowledge the drivers priority in any way and the two squeezed slowly past each other, driver and cyclist staring into space ahead as if determined to refuse to admit the others existence . . .