http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Doored by the Transport Minister en Mon, 18 May 2026 05:49:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239256 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:19:52 +0000 chdot 239256@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>A regulation under section 42 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, which designates criminal motoring offences, states: “No person shall open, or cause or permit to be opened, any door of a vehicle on a road so as to injure or endanger any person.”</p> <p>"</p> <p>That's worth knowing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239244 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:44:13 +0000 I were right about that saddle 239244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes indeed, back on topic. Looks like the Sec of State for Transport (not the Transport Minister) could be in hot water;</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/16/chris-grayling-could-face-private-prosecution-for-dooring-cyclist" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/16/chris-grayling-could-face-private-prosecution-for-dooring-cyclist</a></p> <p>which will be uncomfortable as grayling are usually found in cold, clean-running riverine habitats. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239208 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:47:51 +0000 Cyclingmollie 239208@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/Q6kKZH"><img src="https://c8.staticflickr.com/1/602/31565562471_00b0ce9a8a_n.jpg"></a></p> <p>Must have Christmas prezzie. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239200 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:50:59 +0000 mgj 239200@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To return to the topic; this is the problem with cycle lanes that are not continuous; where the incident happened the lane had finished and not restarted, so they are all in the wrong (including the driver who wasn't in the gutter, where we know we should all be driving/cycling).</p> <p>Sorry, cant think of a fish pun (and I didn't know a Grayling was a fish, is that my learning for the day). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239195 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:20:41 +0000 ih 239195@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What's the porpoise of this thread? It's just pollocks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239194 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:20:35 +0000 LaidBack 239194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can we make title clear that this does <u>not</u> involve Humza Yousaf? ;-)<br /> MSM would love such a story to finish the year off. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239193 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:08:50 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 239193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In other plaices, you could get battered for puns like these </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239192 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:36:57 +0000 jdanielp 239192@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought that we might be at risk of going over quota in the scale of our use of stock fish puns following the net discussion of salmoning and shoaling recently in "Today's Rubbish Cycling" and, more generally, that the joke might be starting to wear fin. I will find the dorsal myself... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239191 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:23:01 +0000 paddyirish 239191@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For goodness hake. Who are you all trying to cod? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239190 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:08:40 +0000 I were right about that saddle 239190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@stiltskin</p> <p>jdanielp is a dab hand at fish jokes, wels versed in piscine humour, never flounders for an aquatic pun, rarely the halibut of the jokes, eel mullet over and join in soon etc etc etc... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239189 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:06:36 +0000 Frenchy 239189@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cyclist clearly salmoning. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239188 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:56:34 +0000 stiltskin 239188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>@jdanielp It's traditional to mock any politician whose name is a fish with fish-based jokes, not clever inversions of the OP's clear intention.</em><br /> Actually IWRATS I don't thnk this thread is the right plaice to make those sort of jokes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239186 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:26:57 +0000 I were right about that saddle 239186@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyone who gets doored undertaking a train has only themselves to blame.</p> <p>@jdanielp It's traditional to mock any politician whose name is a fish with fish-based jokes, not clever inversions of the OP's clear intention. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239185 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:17:57 +0000 chdot 239185@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Not in charge of the doors on a single operator train for a start"</p> <p>+1 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239184 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:16:15 +0000 Cyclingmollie 239184@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Where are you suggesting that we should put Chris Grayling?</em></p> <p>Not in charge of the doors on a single operator train for a start. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239178 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:25:24 +0000 jdanielp 239178@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where are you suggesting that we should put Chris Grayling? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17267#post-239176 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:09:55 +0000 I were right about that saddle 239176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/15/chris-grayling-sent-cyclist-flying-with-his-car-door-video-shows" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/15/chris-grayling-sent-cyclist-flying-with-his-car-door-video-shows</a></p> <p>Ouch. Segregation anyone? </p>