Thoughts please...

[Moby Jones]

I want to know what you guys would do in this situation. Just at the end of my commute there is a narrow stretch of road just before a set of traffic lights, I turn left at the lights. The traffic has always ground to a halt about 200 yards before the lights. There is a stretch of pavement beside the road, which would take me up to the lights which is where I turn off and go into my work. Now the road is really narrow, do I wait in the Que of traffic which takes forever to reach the lights or do I jump on the pavement for the 200 yards, the pavement usually has 1 person on it ? What would you do in that situation

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[Oldgit]

For the sake of 200 yards it might be worth getting off and walking the bike on the pavement.

 

[YahudaMoon]

Cyclist who cycle on the pavement >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

So annoying

 

[slowmotion]

Walk the bike. It's just bad manners to ride on the pavement.

(No lecture intended)

 

[Moby Jones]

Well the general thought seems to be walk the bike, sounds like a good solution to me....

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[Chilternrides]

Oldgit cracked it, but there are alternatives:

How long is the light sequence? If it's very short, just join the queue - by the time you've walked it, it may have changed anyway.

If it's quite lengthy, then simply walk the bike around the corner and remount as per Oldgit.

Basic rule of thumb - don't give anyone any more ammunition than they already have. We spend ages on here bleating about "impatient drivers" - pot, kettle and all that...

 

[Moby Jones]

I am quite happy to walk it and that's what I will do. The traffic is at a standstill, the whole road is blocked and the traffic is backed right up through the traffic lights. I could be waiting in the Que of traffic for some time

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[YahudaMoon]

Some cyclist just give proper cyclist a bad name. Same in all walks of life I suppose.

 

[Keith Oates]

I am quite happy to walk it and that's what I will do. The traffic is at a standstill, the whole road is blocked and the traffic is backed right up through the traffic lights. I could be waiting in the Que of traffic for some time

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Good decision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chilternrides]

Good decision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhh, how heartening - Keith Oates and his famous exclamation marks

I remember you from another place - but I had (have) a different username there. Good to see you around KO

 

[Arch]

1 person in 200 yards of pavement; I would cycle it, and when I was anywhere near that person I would slow to walking pace be very polite and courteous and not forget that I shouldn't be there.

Trouble is, no matter how careful and polite you are, and no matter how much cheerful conversation you might have with that single pedestrian, every driver stewing in that queue sees you riding on the pavement and resents you for cheating and breaking the law to beat them.

Get off and walk and you do three things.

1 Get there faster
2 Retain the moral highground
and
3 show just how much more convenient a bike is. You can't get out and push a car along the pavement...

 

[Xiorell]

Trouble is, no matter how careful and polite you are, and no matter how much cheerful conversation you might have with that single pedestrian, every driver stewing in that queue sees you riding on the pavement and resents you for cheating and breaking the law to beat them.

Is it actually illegal then? (Not starting an argument, just asking, I thought it was legal, however frowned upon)

 

[Oldgit]

64
You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement.

[Laws HA 1835 sect 72 & R(S)A 1984, sect 129]




From the highway code.

 

[Xiorell]

64
You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement.

[Laws HA 1835 sect 72 & R(S)A 1984, sect 129]




From the highway code.

Fair play, that straightens that out for me

I don't cycle on pavement anyway. Except one bit right by work but that is in fact a shared lane anyway, just the paint has worn away on a stretch of about 100yards

 

[Adasta]

Yeh, some spellers just give proper writer a bad name

If their was a 100 cars in that queue

"Hypocrisy!" was the cry. Not to mention the grammar.