The cars and buses that go through the red light/green man at the ped crossing on the Brixton end of Brixton High Street piss me off.
Not many of them admittedly, but a few car drivers seem positively offended that I overtake them on my scooter (so I'd imagine bicycles piss them off even more
) while they're stationary, and afterwards they race pass me if they have the chance- only for me to leave them behind at the next queue of of corse.Not many of them admittedly, but a few car drivers seem positively offended that I overtake them on my scooter (so I'd imagine bicycles piss them off even more
Yeah, that's exactly what happens to me, too. Mostly it's just dirty looks, but the odd one seems very upset... Strange that, eh?
Cars can can turn right on a red light in the US under the same conditions.
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It's not about the manoeuvre being difficult, it's about it being misunderstood/misused in a country which isn't used to it being legal. I've seen cars speed up to try and "punish" cyclists for cycling instead of walking across a pedestrian crossing and seen pedestrians push cyclists off their bikes because they didn't know the pavement doubled as a cycle-path. I think the combination of cyclists turning left on red when it's not that safe to do so and the plethora of car-drivers who have problems controlling their egos could be lethal.
This is a ridiculous complaint. People do it to minimise the chances of someone who is paying less attention or who have worse brakes than they have (ie lorries) ploughing into the back of someone. So what if people do it unnecessarily sometimes? If you get that worked up at people just for giving a signal you consider unnecessary, you need to get a better handle on your ego whilst driving. Seriously.
, I mean you, you bunch of ignorant twats.They don't have to! They do have to give way to pedestrians who are already crossing the road though, and nothing is written about somebody coming down a road to a junction where there are pedestrians, though giving way is always better than running some poor sod down just to prove a point!
But what about the people that the driver just failed to take notice of? Drivers should indicate all manouvres. The only one i got taught not to bother with was moving back to the left after overtaking on a single carriage way because it's obvious that you have to at the end of the manouvre.Tbh, if there is genuinely is no one else around, peds or bikes or motorised vehicles, and it's very obvious that this is the case to the person needing to turn, then I think someone can be excused for not indicating. But then who would know? It's a bit like that philosophical question about the tree in the uninhabited forest making a sound.
