http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Taxi driver on Gilmore Place en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:18:26 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4602#post-48945 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:13:56 +0000 wingpig 48945@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"After 18:30, on weekdays, only if there's a bike already in the box (that you can't squeeze up beside), if I've no fare in the back."</p> <p>I don't know which version of StandsToReasonDunnitLogic taxi drivers are running at the moment but I'd've expected them to come up with something like "because cyclists can use bus lanes, which proper taxis can also use, taxis can therefore use cycle facilities" or only recognising them when they couldn't progress further than the first stop line due to cyclists occupying the space between the stop lines before bringing time restrictions into it. The same LRT driver who physically threatened me for pointing out that he'd entered an ASZ years ago initially bleated that there hadn't been a cyclist in it when he'd entered it. Perhaps if it had been raining he'd have tried claiming that ASZs don't operate when it's raining. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4602#post-48940 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:05:13 +0000 cb 48940@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As worrying as this is, it is interesting in that it seems to confirm what many of us have been thinking - that some drivers seems to think stopping in the bike box is OK for whatever reason.</p> <p>('After 6.30' is not a reason I would have guessed at, but never mind).</p> <p>Perhaps this is a positive thing as it <em>could</em> be fixed through education.</p> <p>Or am I just naively optimistic? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4602#post-48920 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:44:28 +0000 splitshift 48920@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>road registered driving instructor..........<br /> as opposed to a sailing instructor, where else would he be doing it ? looser ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4602#post-48911 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:39:30 +0000 kaputnik 48911@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What min says. You didn't get his taxi registration number did you? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4602#post-48905 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:10:34 +0000 Min 48905@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"doesn't apply after 6.30"</p> <p>What a tosser. What is their excuse the rest of the time then? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4602#post-48904 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:02:39 +0000 SRD 48904@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Heading west into intersection with Viewforth. Taxi comes up behind me, slowing down as light is red. I think he'll do the usual taxi thing and stop with 2 wheels over the stop line. NO, he pulls entirely into the ASL. I carry on up the bike lane and look at him and mouth 'you missed your stop line'. He looks puzzled, rolls down his window, then gets out of car. I repeat, 'you missed your stop line back there' (pointing). No, he says, that's not a stop line. The stop line's up there (pointing). No, I say, that's a stop line. You see, there's not one in the bike lane. The one up there is an advanced stop line. He tries another tack 'its after 6.30, that doesn't apply after 6.30'. I laugh, and suggest he consult the Highway code. 'Its nothing to do with 6.30'. Taxi driver: "I'm a road registered driving instructor". I laugh a bit more and tell him to look it up. He gets back in cab, light changes, sweeps past me. </p> <p>Wish I'd thought of something clever/funny to say. </p>