Eater Sundae Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Good point! ---------- Post added 31-12-2014 at 13:08 ---------- Even the highway code picture doesn't show this, What a load of garbage It depends on the situation, but the point is that in many cases overtaking just one cyclist safely requires a car driver to move across, even if only partially, into the other lane. This can only be done if there is no car coming the other way. Although many drivers often try to squeeze through between the cyclist and the car coming the other way, it is not safe, as they are not giving the cyclist enough space. However, if a driver is prepared to wait until there is no car coming the other way, as he should, then it wouldn't matter if there were in fact 2 cyclists side by side, as he can overtake them just as easily as a single cyclist... ...and more easily that overtaking two cyclists riding in single file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab6262 Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 This is mainly for the road users of Sheffield, I have had the pleasure of being stopped twice by the Police in the last ten days for contravening red lights. This is very unusual behavior for the police as in both instances I was on my bicycle. In the last twenty years i have gone through lights at various stages and on plenty of occasions I have done this in the presence of police officers. This time though it was a police van and they actually turned around in the road to come after me. Instead of arguing about how the pressure plates and magnetic strips rarely pick up cyclists and change for them I said that I treated the junction that was controlled by the lights as a give way. It was perfectly safe, I was already stopped at the red light and waited patiently for the opposing traffic to pass before I ventured across the junction and with no other traffic in sight.This did not satisfy them and for a time i actually thought i was going to get a fine!!. Have the Police been given instructions to get fines for various misdemeanors ?. I know this is happening in other countries but the police there get to keep the revenue raised through such fines. Does the British police get to keep the money from fines that they issue? oh thank you God!! at last some common sense some active targeting of this 2 wheel menace, keep up the good work SY police:clap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJeremy Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 It depends on the situation, but the point is that in many cases overtaking just one cyclist safely requires a car driver to move across, even if only partially, into the other lane. This can only be done if there is no car coming the other way. Although many drivers often try to squeeze through between the cyclist and the car coming the other way, it is not safe, as they are not giving the cyclist enough space. However, if a driver is prepared to wait until there is no car coming the other way, as he should, then it wouldn't matter if there were in fact 2 cyclists side by side, as he can overtake them just as easily as a single cyclist... ...and more easily that overtaking two cyclists riding in single file. Well obviously sometimes that is true. But on other occasions it is patently not true. If you are overtaking a 7 foot wide vehicle you need more lateral space than you need to overtake a single cyclist. This is so obvious I don't know why I'm continuing rising to the rabid and the trolls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey69 Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 oh thank you God!! at last some common sense some active targeting of this 2 wheel menace, keep up the good work SY police:clap: Have the Police been given instructions to get fines for various misdemeanors ?. I know this is happening in other countries but the police there get to keep the revenue raised through such fines. Does the British police get to keep the money from fines that they issue? I just thought no one has replied with any information about this part of the post. I know the police budgets are up against it, but is it right they make the general public pay for the shortfall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squiggs Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Have the Police been given instructions to get fines for various misdemeanors ?. I know this is happening in other countries but the police there get to keep the revenue raised through such fines. Does the British police get to keep the money from fines that they issue? I just thought no one has replied with any information about this part of the post. I know the police budgets are up against it, but is it right they make the general public pay for the shortfall? You sound like a 2-wheeled version of Penistone "I Wish I Was Jeremy Clarkson but I'm a bit rubbish at it" 999. You'll be calling cyclists "cash cows" in a minute... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeDaMouse Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I don't see how there is any argument with what's happen. If you break the law by going through a red light, either in a car or push bike its illegal and that's that. Credit to the Police. Whether you believe its safe or not is beyond the point. A red light mean stop so that's what you should do. That goes for ALL road uses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penistone999 Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 You sound like a 2-wheeled version of Penistone "I Wish I Was Jeremy Clarkson but I'm a bit rubbish at it" 999. You'll be calling cyclists "cash cows" in a minute... Hey, dont tar me with the same brush as the two wheeled lunatics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eater Sundae Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Hey, dont tar me with the same brush as the two wheeled lunatics. Good point. As lunatics go you're one of a kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becky B Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Perhaps pedestrians should walk in a pack on a blind corner on a B road just to make sure they are in the way of cars so they have to make an unnecessary overtaking manoeuvre on the wrong side of the carriageway? Seems like the logical extension of this train of thought What???!!! It depends on the situation, but the point is that in many cases overtaking just one cyclist safely requires a car driver to move across, even if only partially, into the other lane. This can only be done if there is no car coming the other way. Although many drivers often try to squeeze through between the cyclist and the car coming the other way, it is not safe, as they are not giving the cyclist enough space. However, if a driver is prepared to wait until there is no car coming the other way, as he should, then it wouldn't matter if there were in fact 2 cyclists side by side, as he can overtake them just as easily as a single cyclist... ...and more easily that overtaking two cyclists riding in single file. This is what I was trying to say (obviously, I didn't say it quite so clearly?...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey69 Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 You sound like a 2-wheeled version of Penistone "I Wish I Was Jeremy Clarkson but I'm a bit rubbish at it" 999. You'll be calling cyclists "cash cows" in a minute... Ha, its already been mentioned a number of times that most cyclists are also Drivers. So in a sense your dead right:D:D Long live the nearly 80% tax that the government takes from you all. Makes you wonder whos being shafted when you look at it:suspect: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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