Mortimer wrote:
"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.

The problem is that you only really remember the nutters.

--
Tony the Dragon