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Police collar 138 drivers and cyclists in traffic crackdown
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Posted 13 years ago #
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The other day a small dog was happily crossing the road in front of its owner when it spied me on my bike stopped at the lights. It immediately started yapping uncontrollably until the lights changed and
I run it overI moved off.First thing that popped into my head was EEN commentator...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Good article really. No anti-cyclist bias at all.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Reported this comment:
"Can't we just line up all of Edinburgh's cyclists and arrange for a juggernaut to plough into the lot of them. Bunch of whinnying maggots."
This one I just find odd. I mean, I know cyclists do ride on the pavements, but I walk in the city centre all the time, and, well, it's not a scene of militant constant pavement cycling that I recognise...
"I am particularly pleased to read that the Police are finally going to start giving fines to cyclists who are on the pavements. The pavements in and around the city centre have become extremely dangerous thanks to these ignorant idiots zooming about, weaving in between pedestrians. Here is a tip for all you cyclists who do this - if you can't handle cycling on the road where you are supposed to be - leave your bike at home!"
Posted 13 years ago # -
Might I nominate Smudge and splitshift to decide amongst themselves as to who drives the juggernaut?
Any subsequent mishap involving Mr. Chauvinist's car would of course be highly regrettable.
Posted 13 years ago # -
As in "oops"....
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havnt seen that in ages ! makes me laugh , oops get all responsible to renault drivers is what i meant to type !You could spend days trawling the interweb for clips of lorries doing silly stuff, or i could just mail them to you !
more i think of it, in the tanker drivers defence, it was a fairly low car, the drivers seat position was probably really low, to hide the phone, and fish supper,there was prob some good film on the lap top and the country music soundtrack was prob at full blast,(might even have been reading cyclecraft !) shucks i wouldnt really have noticed a small french car stuck to my bumper for a few miles either !Besides i bet they were some of those pesky cyclist types anyway !
Tounge firmly planted in side of mouth !Posted 13 years ago # -
"They were having some safe cycle precession thingy riding down the royal mile the other week. Hundreds of the untaxed and uninsured. When passing through between north south bridge, dozens of cyclists were seen ignoring red lights and continuing through. When traffic started to move and push through, one cyclist started giving loud and foul abuse to one innocent motorist."
Interesting. Given the police were controlling that junction...
Posted 13 years ago # -
@anth - I wonder if lewdboy means the taxi driver that was being particularly abusive, and had started the frothing at the mouth rant, who had picked up a fare just outside the hotel down from The Bank. Coming through that junction there was a motorist giving it laldy on the horn...obviously very unhappy about being stuck in traffic. They did not really get the irony of the situation, that is they get stuck in traffic constantly due to the number of motor vehicles, for once they were held up by cyclists. Sorry, I forgot we go too slowly and should not be on the roads because we get in the way!! Except through traffic jams...which, of course, maddens them even further!!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Must say I'm glad that they caught a good lot of the cyclists too - some people really need a bit of a shock to get them to stop at the reds. I caught up with a guy today who had hopped a red and had a little word and he did look a bit guilty and agreed I was probably right.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Wow.
Just, wowPosted 12 years ago #
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