RLJ

[presta]

https://www.itv.com/news/london/202...s-and-e-scooter-riders-ignoring-law-in-london

 

[Chris S]

Motorists regularly jump red lights here in Birmingham. They're far more dangerous than cyclists and e-scooters.

 

[Drago]

No one should RLJ, regardless of the type of vehicle. They all need a good spanking.

 

[Vantage]

"This research is not designed to attack cyclists or e-scooter riders.

And I'm the queen of England.

 

[ianrauk]

I'll start to worry about cyclists and scooterist's RLJ'ng after they have stopped the 2 ton metal boxes doing the same of which I see on a daily basis.

 

[All uphill]

I have no time for people who drive or ride their vehicles through red lights. They are acting wrongly.

However...

Every bike, ebike or illegal e- motorbike that is used on our roads gets car drivers more aware of two wheeled transport and, I believe, moves us towards a time when bikes will be seen as normal, and cycling as a normal way to get around.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I very seldom see it around here - but then I am not in a city centre where it seems to happen mostly.

fair amount of dodgy riding but not RLJing

 

[presta]

I think the main harm it does is stoking the anti-cycling war.

 

[Brandane]

From the same article:

Some motorists also behaved badly with 11% distracted at red lights, including 4% of drivers seen on their phones along with other distractions included eating and drinking as well as smoking and vaping while driving.

Walworth Road & East Street saw a 38% of drivers distracted by phones or other activities while at the traffic lights.

But law breaking cyclists on their 15kg death machines make the headline?
Usual anti cycling nonsense....

 

[steveindenmark]

Let them get on with it. Its one way to clean the gene pool.

 

[figbat]

I’m a stickler for the rules. I stop at red lights. I don’t ride on the pavement. And so on.

It is with some pride that I have influenced the group I ride with to behave the same. We ride MTBs once a week as a group, in the evening. There is one particular junction we often negotiate that, when I first rode with them they would either ride through the red or hop on the pavement. I always stopped.

This meant that they ended up waiting for me further down the road. Now, since they have to wait anyway, they wait with me at the stop line. And since the first few times they now do it without prompting, without me stopping first and without comment.

My response when they used to comment - “I don’t want to be the guy that reinforces the stereotypes about cyclists”.

 

[EltonFrog]

I have just returned from a short trip from Paddington Station to Brompton hospital and back, a round trip of less than 4.5 miles.
Lots of traffic lights on that short journey, and everyone on a bike, jumped lights that were on red. Every single one of them. Not me.

 

[Drago]

I’m a stickler for the rules. I stop at red lights. I don’t ride on the pavement. And so on.

It is with some pride that I have influenced the group I ride with to behave the same. We ride MTBs once a week as a group, in the evening. There is one particular junction we often negotiate that, when I first rode with them they would either ride through the red or hop on the pavement. I always stopped.

This meant that they ended up waiting for me further down the road. Now, since they have to wait anyway, they wait with me at the stop line. And since the first few times they now do it without prompting, without me stopping first and without comment.

My response when they used to comment - “I don’t want to be the guy that reinforces the stereotypes about cyclists”.

Ditto.

The bottom line is that its not reasonable for us as a user group to expect others to obey the rules if we ourselves don't.

Do unto others, and all that.

 

[mjr]

I have just returned from a short trip from Paddington Station to Brompton hospital and back, a round trip of less than 4.5 miles.
Lots of traffic lights on that short journey, and everyone on a bike, jumped lights that were on red. Every single one of them. Not me.

So you weren't on a bike?

 

[Rusty Nails]

So you weren't on a bike?

The "every single one of Them, not me" is a big clue.