"Martin Underwood" wrote in message
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The only time recently that I've seen a car blatantly run through red
lights
was a few weeks ago:

Okay, I've seen it done twice in the last two days, with identical
circumstances in both cases. First case was in Hitchin, where a line of cars
stopped at a red light protecting roadworks - a taxi several cars behind the
one at the front pulls out, passes the stopped ones and proceeds through the
roadworks. Only problem was that the traffic coming the other way had
started by this time, and the lead vehicle was a bus, meaning the said
taxi - with nowhere to reverse - ended up on the pavement.

The second case was earlier today on York Way, at the roadworks beneath the
North London Line bridge. Identical incident, though sadly this time there
wasn't a bus coming the other way. How anyone can have the stupidity to do
this on a completely blind bend is beyond me.


I think you'd be hard-pressed to break any normal speed limit on a bike -
apart from a 20 mph limit, or maybe a 30 on a steep hill.

I can claim over 40 going down Archway Road beneath the bridge; always fun
doing it down there overtaking everything slowing for the GATSO!


I do it because if I'm turning left, I can't afford to take my eyes off
the
road ahead to check my left mirror or look over my left shoulder to look
for
cyclists who are ILLEGALLY overtaking me.

Fine, but don't do it if you're in a queue that's obviously not going to
move for a while. That's just needless obstruction of traffic.