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Originally Posted by local
As you know there are many roads where that is impossible the carriageway isn't wide enough for vehicles to leave that much room.
Why do you not think before you post ?
I think you need to start to take due consideration of the amount of smilies deployed, and of the atypically high smilie-to-text ratio.
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Originally Posted by The PNP
If all drivers had showed due consideration for riders, e.g. by always leaving at least 1.5m clearance when passing - there would be never have been a need for cycle lanes in the first place..... Drivers, with their inconsiderate behaviour, have only themselves to blame!
Always the motorist at fault, then you wonder at the reaction you get?????
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Originally Posted by The PNP
Many roads? Name a couple.
Only roads I can think of where that would be the case, are single-track moss roads with passing places....When I encounter a bunch of riders in that situation, I treat them as 'a vehicle' and pull in for the guys.
That is an odd response either your being obtuse or do you expect people to cross into the other side of the carriageway which on busy roads is well nigh impossible oh and dangerous.
If I am holding up traffic I pull in to let traffic past, don't you?
It's much safer.
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Originally Posted by local
That is an odd response either your being obtuse or do you expect people to cross into the other side of the carriageway which on busy roads is well nigh impossible oh and dangerous.
If I am holding up traffic I pull in to let traffic past, don't you?
It's much safer.
4th Oct PRESTON Temporary cycle lanes are now being removed by the council after a review of ... caused disruption on London Road, a busy route for city centre commuters.
9th Oct. LONDON. London's new Euston Road cycle lane is set to be axed,
<header style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 16px; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(43, 44, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><time class="date" datetime="2020-09-15T11:41:00+00:00" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(168, 154, 138); display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; line-height: initial;">15 Sep 2020, 11:41</time> Dan Whelan
</header>One Trafford, the partnership between Trafford Council and infrastructure services provider Amey, will remove pop-up cycle lanes from the A56 between Stretford and Manchester today following a rise in traffic congestion, despite their popularity.
Council bosses have removed controversial Covid-19 cycle lanes just a week after they were installed - and apologised for any inconvenience caused.
Ashford residents were left fuming after Kent County Council reduced Mace Lane, Somerset Road and New Street to just a single lane last Monday.
Far more pollution is caused by slow moving traffic!
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Originally Posted by local
That is an odd response either your being obtuse or do you expect people to cross into the other side of the carriageway which on busy roads is well nigh impossible oh and dangerous.
If I am holding up traffic I pull in to let traffic past, don't you?
It's much safer.
Unless a road is exceptionally wide, I find I invariably have to encroach onto the other side of a carriageway, when passing a bike. It's never been a problem for me to do that, but then I'm not an impatient or inconsiderate type of driver.
What I have noticed, is an increase in regular cyclists riding side-by-side. They feel they now have to do his, because they're sick of drivers barrelling dangerously past at very close quarters. Believe me, after having had a 30-ton truck do it to me with inches to spare, I don't blame them for riding like that at all!
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Originally Posted by The PNP
Unless a road is exceptionally wide, I find I invariably have to encroach onto the other side of a carriageway, when passing a bike. It's never been a problem for me to do that, but then I'm not an impatient or inconsiderate type of driver.
What I have noticed, is an increase in regular cyclists riding side-by-side. They feel they now have to do his, because they're sick of drivers barrelling dangerously past at very close quarters. Believe me, after having had a 30-ton truck do it to me with inches to spare, I don't blame them for riding like that at all!
Why don't they just pull in and let them past as I do?
I accept I am slow-moving and think my actions show consideration for others, why wouldn't you suggest they do the same it's much safer.
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Originally Posted by local
Why don't they just pull in and let them past as I do?
I accept I am slow-moving and think my actions show consideration for others, why wouldn't you suggest they do the same it's much safer.
So many choose to drive nowadays, that the roads are pretty much always packed. I'd never get anywhere, if I kept pulling in and waiting for clear roadspace before continuing.....Having said that, I'm happy to pull aside at the first available passing-place on single-track roads, when there's a vehicle stuck behind.
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Originally Posted by The PNP
Unless a road is exceptionally wide, I find I invariably have to encroach onto the other side of a carriageway, when passing a bike. It's never been a problem for me to do that, but then I'm not an impatient or inconsiderate type of driver.
What I have noticed, is an increase in regular cyclists riding side-by-side. They feel they now have to do his, because they're sick of drivers barrelling dangerously past at very close quarters. Believe me, after having had a 30-ton truck do it to me with inches to spare, I don't blame them for riding like that at all!
NO they don’t have to ride side by side and far being safer, I would think they put themselves in more danger, incidentally how do you feel about 3 cyclists riding side by side oblivious of other traffic?
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Originally Posted by The PNP
If I had been riding alongside another bike, when that 30-tonner approached, he'd have had to slow down and wait behind for a safe place to pass...So, whatever drivers may think about it, it's a strategy that works.
Three abreast? No need for it imo. I guess that must occasionally happen, but can't think of any circumstances where someone would need to do it.
Yesterday, Shore Rd going from Banks to Hesketh Bank, three of your lycra clad heroes cruising and nattering as if there is no-one else on the road but them,
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Originally Posted by The PNP
What a great reply well done
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Originally Posted by The PNP
Well these three "heroes" were using more road than a combine harvester, had little option but to let them know I was there, then of course I get the standard fingers in the air and the "friendly" Foff as I went past, these idiots do cycling more harm than good.
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Seems my irony hit the panniers
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