What's the opposite of a left hook?

[Arch]

Could it have been the pointless green cycle lane that prompted this odd behaviour?

(You're right, it turned out positive. But the very unexpectedness of it could cause problems. It's when something unexpected happens, and we have to decide what we're going to do in resonse at no notice that accidents happen...)

I don't know. I can't remember quite where the cycle lane starts at that point, or if it's across the end of the road he was turning into...

There was somthing about the deliberateness of it that made me think he was doing it out of habit, rather than a sudden "oh, let that cyclist go..." moment. I remember thinking in Copenhagen, how wonderfully it all worked, with the serious cycle lanes and people waiting for each other...

 

[Will1985]

My concern in that situation would be if there were also an oncoming car waiting to turn across. Your Pug driver's good intentions would have caused an accident if the oncoming car interpreted it as a signal to turn across first.
Trouble here is that you're more at risk of getting splatted whichever side of the car you pass.

 

[grhm]

I thought this was going to be some comic story about an idiot reversing out onto a main road . I've had that happen to me.

I though that too.

On a similar vain, I was commended by the examiner on my driving test when reversing round a corner. I'd stopped mid manouver as a cyclist came up behind me in the gutter - in my blind spot - and the examiner hadn't seen him till I stopped. I didn't like to point out that I hadn't spotted the cyclist either, but was stopped as I'd lost track of where the kerb was and wasn't sure I was going in the right direction.

 

[Arch]

My concern in that situation would be if there were also an oncoming car waiting to turn across. Your Pug driver's good intentions would have caused an accident if the oncoming car interpreted it as a signal to turn across first.
Trouble here is that you're more at risk of getting splatted whichever side of the car you pass.

I suppose - TBH, that didn't occur to me at the time, but then I know there wasn't an oncoming car in that position...

Well, I guess the changes of it happening again are pretty rare, anyway!

 

[dellzeqq]

Happens regularly in London (Zimmers falls of chair). Cars turning left across the bus lane make a point of stopping and letting cyclists through.

 

[zimzum42]

Happens regularly in London (Zimmers falls of chair). Cars turning left across the bus lane make a point of stopping and letting cyclists through.

I'm still on my chair!

Cos that's a bit different, innit, they are looking out for a bus or taxi etc, and if they spot a cyclist, then it would be pretty normal for them to slow up a bit to let the bike past

 

[dellzeqq]

I think it's that they've got used to there being very many of us....

 

[User169]

But him having done it, it would have been rude not to go...

Anyway, as I said, it's the law in some countries, so I assume he was bringing foreign habits with him.

It took me a while to get used to and led to a bit of an impasse to start with - both the driver and myself waiting for each other to go first.

In a way, it points out one advantage of properly engineered cycle paths - you have to cross a "lane" to turn off, so more naturally look for anything in that lane before doing so.

 

[Arch]

It took me a while to get used to and led to a bit of an impasse to start with - both the driver and myself waiting for each other to go first.

In a way, it points out one advantage of properly engineered cycle paths - you have to cross a "lane" to turn off, so more naturally look for anything in that lane before doing so.

Yes, the ones in Copenhagen were great. A full road lane width each side of the main road (think Oxford Street), with a line of kerb stones deliniating them (just creating a slight bump of a line, ok to cycle over, but enough to make them obvious), a slightly different colour tarmac, and no wandering peds, because the peds were all on the equally wide pavement, which had a proper kerb between it and the cycle lane.

Heaven, I wished I had a bike with me. And then there were all the beautiful healthy looking Danish people gliding along on their bikes...