Cyclists allowed to run red lights?

"J. Chisholm" gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

Yesterday I approached, on my bike, a junction that had both an approach
lane and an Advanced Stop Box. The lights were RED. There was a cyclist
in the box, but the first vehicle was a van indicating left. Both myself
and another cyclists waited to the rear of the first vehicle. (We we
aware that the first vehicle in a Q at lights normally just looks at the
light and moves off when they change without looking around). Another
van was pulled up along side us. When the lights changed we all moved
off. As we reached the junction the van that had been alongside STARTED
to indicate left and pulled across our paths.

I don't think anybody's ever claimed that there aren't a substantial
number of ****wits driving on the roads of this country.

If it's not a silly question, why did you stop in a position where he
could pull up alongside?

Adrian wrote:

If it's not a silly question, why did you stop in a position where he
could pull up alongside?

Because had I stopped outside the cycle lane I would have risked being
hit or abused by one of those many drivers who believe if there is a
cycle lane I should be in it!

Jim

"Steve Firth" wrote in message
.. .
Adrian wrote:

Careful, you'll fuel Toomtard's "Steve Firth Collective" fantasies.

snip shaite

As I keep saying but it appears NOT to sink in

Gizmo = Filth

Also i asked the question about all the new posters that appearedfor just a
day or so appeared also to know ALL about Doug, his history with Brians
accusations and Filths vomit and would soon disappear after slating Doug

DO YOU Adrian think -its really one person = one name=one poster here?

If its yes then Mr Adrain Gullible must stop handing your dosh over to all
those Nigerian solicitors and money launderers

"Steve Firth" wrote in message
. ..
Ah, OK. *******s.

I do find it mildly amusing that cyclists whine on (and on and on) about
*their* safety but are such aggressive ****s when it comes to their
interaction with pedestrians.

Good Point

OK which one of you tw4ts is pretending to be Filth today ;-)

"Ttoommy" gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

As I keep saying but it appears NOT to sink in

Gizmo = Filth

And as the rest of us keep saying - you're a cretin.

DO YOU Adrian think -its really one person = one name=one poster here?

Certainly not whilst you morph merrily.

In ,
Adrian tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:

If it's not a silly question, why did you stop in a position where he
could pull up alongside?

Because preventing a vehicle from overtaking is something one should never
ever do ;-)

--
Dave Larrington
http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk
Ernesto, give me that Kit-Kat, or I will kill you.

Ttoommy wrote:

As I keep saying but it appears NOT to sink in

Gizmo = Filth

You can say it as often as you like, it's ********.

Oh hang on you'll keep saying it often because it *is* ******** and you
only do ********.

You have a strange interpretation of not posting here, don't you
Toomtard? Or is it just that you're a habitual, deranged and presumably
drunken liar?

"Adrian" wrote in message
...

If it's not a silly question, why did you stop in a position where he
could pull up alongside?

You can't actually prevent it.

I have been in the situation where I have stopped for a children's crossing
patrol and because I turn right immediately after the crossing, I am toward
the right side of the lane. A car pulls up alongside me on the right and
stops, straddling the centre line. I could only guess that she was using the
cyclist as a kerb marker :-(

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:15:55 +0100, Tom Crispin
wrote:

**My news server is playing up - Nugent's reply below has been pasted
from Google Groups**

In the "solution" proposed above by TC, the route would not be
through a red light, and as a system, it could only be put into
place at enormous cost for the works necessary (and would
probably never be extended to all lights for that reason).

Again I think that you are wrong.

The Mayor of London only has control over red routes within London. A
splash of paint giving a left turn cycle bypass at traffic light
junctions on red routes would be fairly cheap.


Even the CTC are not in favour of the idea - Geffin/Giffin(sp) was on
Radio 4

He said that they have never called for it and the public would not
buy in to it.

He said it was a Red herring - and a cheap headline

He noted that cyclists do this anyway - they break the law in the
interests of their own safety.!!

That's OK then.

--

"Primary position" the middle of a traffic lane. To take the "primary position" : to ride a bike in the middle of the lane in order to obstruct other road vehicles from overtaking.

A term invented by and used by psycholists and not recognised in the Highway Code.

"Dave Larrington" gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

If it's not a silly question, why did you stop in a position where he
could pull up alongside?

Because preventing a vehicle from overtaking is something one should
never ever do ;-)

cough And where would he have been overtaking too...?