"David Hansen" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:19:54 GMT someone who may be "neverwas"
wrote this:-

It's bad enough having getting
scratched, bruise and punched now when daring to use a pedestrian
crossing or controlled crossing in a manner which might require a
cyclist to extend his (or very rarely her) journey by 5 seconds.

Every time (at least so far) that I have nearly been struck on
pedestrian crossings the criminal has ben a motorist.

It's not uncommon for motorists to fail to stop at zebra crossings when you
are standing at the crossing waiting to cross. But the only time I've
actually been *on* the crossing when a vehicle has crossed right in front of
me, it was a cyclist. An HGV had stopped so I started to cross, when a
cyclist appeared from the far side of the HGV (therefore he overtook on the
zig zag markings), swerved round me and swore at me for making him nearly
hit the illuminated "keep left" bollard on the central island.

There seems to be a small minority of cyclists who are so arrogant that they
think that they do not need to stop for anything, ever. They give the vast
majority of safe, courteous cyclists a bad name.