Red light jumping

[simon l& and a half]

I've used the Grays Inn Road, and the behaviour of cyclists on that road, and on Rosebery Avenue, is so appalling, and so embarrassing, that I found another route to work.

 

[wafflycat]

I've never had the need or desire to RLJ in any town/city I've cycled in. Home or abroad

 

[Globalti]

What a feckin' ridiculous idea! I can see the headlines now: "Now red light jumping cyclists want law changed for their exclusive benefit...." and so on.

The very reason why traffic lights are such a successful invention is the knowledge that everybody will behave in the same predictable way at a light-controlled junction. Allow any variation in the predictability and you'll have anarchy.

I can only assume that the stupidity of this idea is inspired by some deep-rooted need to antagonise the public.

 

[spindrift]

Any response, bb1?

 

[LLB]

I nipped into town on my cycle yesterday evening and on the way back I came up to a controlled junction. Sat in the ASL waiting for the sequence, the ped lights come up green and a few seconds later, a hybrid riding helmet wearing knob head come whistling past me and straight through the junction (a bit too close for comfort). Guy was a total twat and totally ignored the priority of the peds.

The greatest shame was that someone else didn't have the same idea