In article , CJG
writes
Until someone steps out of their garden/house/shop onto the pavement
without first looking to make sure no cyclists are taking advantage of
a quiet road.

There's a problem in that most official shared-use cycle routes do
exactly that and with little thought to people who - quite rightly -
are coming out of their residences. And there's now a feeling amongst
most drivers that if there's a cycle-path then cyclists should be on it
rather than the road, even if the path is more dangerous to pedestrian
and cyclist.
The thoughtlessness of council road safety officers is legion amongst
cyclists, as they mostly appear to be just blindly following some
'target', rather than really thinking through problems.

There are strong parallels between drivers and cyclists; most are
pretty well-behaved most of the time but unfortunately there are two
types that continuously flout the Highway Code - these are the
Boy-racers and the Lazy Susans.
Boy-racers are obvious as they are continually cycle on pavements,
down the wrong way on one-way streets and cut through red traffic
lights. Their driving equivalent screeches round corners, races
everywhere, wears a baseball cap and plays stuff on his 1kw stereo that
only has bass lines.
The Lazy Susan driver is normally in a 4x4, distracted by children, on
a mobile phone and is making a shopping list up in her mind. The cyclist
equivalent cycles an extremely clapped out bike with an annoying squeak,
never stops for traffic lights but is always cycling so slowly and far
from the kerb that she then manages to block all the cyclists who did
stop from overtaking her. This goes on ad infinitum for about five
traffic lights until she's taken out with a well-aimed machete.

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Martin @ Strawberry Hill