http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: ASLs speed up driving en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:10:19 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14954#post-190711 Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:16:34 +0000 AKen 190711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>It's a bit like those flies which some toilet/urinal manufacturers glazed into their products, to try and persuade their dozier users to aim properly.</em></p> <p>I've been told that they are actually bees and this idea was dreamt up by classically-educated Victorians - the Latin for bee being 'apis'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14954#post-190709 Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:56:18 +0000 fimm 190709@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Far too much information for the delicate ladies, wingpig.</p> <p>;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14954#post-190708 Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:50:03 +0000 Min 190708@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Perfect analogy! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14954#post-190706 Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:48:28 +0000 wingpig 190706@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's a bit like those flies which some toilet/urinal manufacturers glazed into their products, to try and persuade their dozier users to aim properly. A cyclist provides a similar target-to-beat for an otherwise content-to-putter-along driver. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14954#post-190702 Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:31:14 +0000 Min 190702@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have often thought this and was thinking about it again as more horns blared at a motorist yesterday who was too busy poking at his mobile phone to notice the lights had changed. If there had been a cyclist in the ASL, most likely he would have been revving his engine behind them ready to put the foot down as soon as the amber came on. Therefore cyclists speed up traffic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14954#post-190697 Thu, 11 Jun 2015 08:16:21 +0000 gibbo 190697@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not in the Police Scotland sense of allowing cars to stop in ASLs with no risk of punishment, but when used by cyclists, actually benefits drivers:</p> <p><a href="https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/space-invaders/">https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/space-invaders/</a> </p>