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That's no excuse for cycling on the pavement. Get off and push and then contact the council about the faulty sensor.
running red lights
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That's no excuse for cycling on the pavement. Get off and push and then contact the council about the faulty sensor.
Never. My life is not worth the time saved jumping a red right, and if you think yours is, I'll laugh when you get killed.
Not really, but you deserve it if you see a red light and jump it. It's illegal, yet cyclists who jump them complain that road users don't like them. There's your reason (or one of them).
Not really, but you deserve it if you see a red light and jump it. It's illegal, yet cyclists who jump them complain that road users don't like them. There's your reason (or one of them).
wesa
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Oxfordshire
I don't have any traffic lights on my commute.
BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
- Location
- South London
Roadsafe have put forward for prosecution quite a few of the red light jumping drivers I've filmed. If I could do the same for cyclists, I'd have no hesitation.
Interested to know what do you do when you are driving and encounter a faulty traffic light?
SportMonkey
Guest
You're legally allowed to go through it.
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
No they don't. They really don't.
Green means "Go if it is clear". It does not mean "plough through whatever is ahead of you".
I don't jump red lights. I don't like that other people do. They don't deserve to die though, and there's no granted right to run into them - if traffic on green can stop safely, it should, must.
Davidc
Guru
- Location
- Somerset UK
No.
Orange ones occasionally.
Orange ones occasionally.
SquareDaff
Über Member
- Location
- Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Always stop at red's. I like my bones and bike as they are at the moment, i.e. in one piece!
Angelfishsolo
A Velocipedian
- Location
- Cwmbach, South Wales
I have crossed at light controlled crossings when the the road is clear but have never cycled through a red light when on the road (to my knowledge)
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Not any more.
But there is one set of lights on a crossroads in the 'sham that are defective at detecting my presence on a bike (yes I have written and several times too, to no avail) without other vehicles present and the phasing is set so the lights never go green unless triggered so then I cross the junction on red when the pedestrians' green man is lit. I'm travelling parallel to said pedestrians so there is no conlict twixt me and them
But, on reflection, I find myself conflicted about this because the detectors don't pick me up when I'm driving the chunkychicken (too short) either and I would not dream of jumping the lights then. I either wait for ages for another car to pull up behind me or back the 'chicken up to sit it over the detectors.
We also have on bizarre pedestrian crossing in the 'sham, right outside the council offices, which seems to take a week to change to red once a ped has pressed the button and which then stays red for what seems like another week by which time said ped is probably at their desk drinking their first coffee of the morning. But I don't jump that one ever.
But there is one set of lights on a crossroads in the 'sham that are defective at detecting my presence on a bike (yes I have written and several times too, to no avail) without other vehicles present and the phasing is set so the lights never go green unless triggered so then I cross the junction on red when the pedestrians' green man is lit. I'm travelling parallel to said pedestrians so there is no conlict twixt me and them
But, on reflection, I find myself conflicted about this because the detectors don't pick me up when I'm driving the chunkychicken (too short) either and I would not dream of jumping the lights then. I either wait for ages for another car to pull up behind me or back the 'chicken up to sit it over the detectors.
We also have on bizarre pedestrian crossing in the 'sham, right outside the council offices, which seems to take a week to change to red once a ped has pressed the button and which then stays red for what seems like another week by which time said ped is probably at their desk drinking their first coffee of the morning. But I don't jump that one ever.
Becs
Veteran
- Location
- Old Hatfield (it's nice honest!)
Not at junctions, occasional pedestrian crossings if there are no pedestrians any where near. I will cross the white line when the ASL is full of taxis though!
Bromptonaut
Rohan Man
- Location
- Bugbrooke UK
Not any more.
Junction of Bloomsbury Way and Southampton Place in Holborn. At this point I need to cross three lanes of traffice to go down Southampton Row. Until a recent redesign there was an eastbound bus lane which got an early green making the crossing manouever a cinch - fine if I was in it but traffic further sometimes meant I was not. In that case I'd go from the stopped main flow when the bus lane got green.
No longer necessary as the road has been remodelled and the bus lane moved to be a westbound contraflow. The revised junction discourages cars from the previous Grand Prix start.
Junction of Bloomsbury Way and Southampton Place in Holborn. At this point I need to cross three lanes of traffice to go down Southampton Row. Until a recent redesign there was an eastbound bus lane which got an early green making the crossing manouever a cinch - fine if I was in it but traffic further sometimes meant I was not. In that case I'd go from the stopped main flow when the bus lane got green.
No longer necessary as the road has been remodelled and the bus lane moved to be a westbound contraflow. The revised junction discourages cars from the previous Grand Prix start.
