Sheffield_Tiger
Legendary Member
In the car today...6:45 I went out to get my bike for an extended ride into work and found my cat with a young bird in its mouth, looked like it had only just started to "play" with it so took it in until I could get to the vets at 9am (wasn't going to try to put a bird in my panniers!!). Bird was fine, but how many RLJ'ers were out there today??
One flew straight across a red then stopped looking bewildered straight in front of me
Another one shortly afterwards whizzed down the inside of me on the exit from a RAB and straight through a pedestrian crossing
1/2 mile later another one cut straight across a wide dual carriageway well into red forcing cars already moving on green to stop
On the way home, similar again, one idiot darting between lanes to squeeze around traffic that was already slowing for the red, then cut across and through
The final one nearly had contact with a lad on an MTB who was going across a junction quite legally.
So yes, RLJ'ers can be a bloody menace and cause aggravation and evasive action. They ought to be fined and punished for it, but they are rarely caught so just carry on doing as they do, endangering themselves and others!
Oh by the way, none of these were cyclists!
One flew straight across a red then stopped looking bewildered straight in front of me
Another one shortly afterwards whizzed down the inside of me on the exit from a RAB and straight through a pedestrian crossing
1/2 mile later another one cut straight across a wide dual carriageway well into red forcing cars already moving on green to stop
On the way home, similar again, one idiot darting between lanes to squeeze around traffic that was already slowing for the red, then cut across and through
The final one nearly had contact with a lad on an MTB who was going across a junction quite legally.
So yes, RLJ'ers can be a bloody menace and cause aggravation and evasive action. They ought to be fined and punished for it, but they are rarely caught so just carry on doing as they do, endangering themselves and others!
Oh by the way, none of these were cyclists!
on retrospect maybe he was a tourist in a hire car, in some countries thats legal I believe.
) The lights went green for the straight ahead but the left was held on red for the pedestrian crossing of Hanover St. A black cab (I can't give him the benefit of doubt, its a tad unlikely he was a foreigner) took the left turn at speed ploughing through what was a busy crossing 
