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Boris admits bendy-buses are safe - but he'll axe them anyway
On 23 Oct, 11:10, Adrian wrote:
MIG gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: the lights change just as you are trying to get to the front. So stay behind the wagon. Then it doesn't matter WHEN the lights change. And then you are stuck on the inside of a queue of vehicles No, you're between two vehicles in the normal position in the road. that may be turning left and whose drivers may not have seen you. * That's why you need to get to the front. Umm, no. *The vehicles behind you can see you - because you're in front of them. Not in a potential blind spot in the gutter. The vehicles in front of you don't need to know you're there, because you're behind them and not overtaking them. If the cement truck was indicating, I might hold back in that situation, but otherwise I'd try to get to the front. Why the impatience? What I said. *You get to the front to help you survive, nothing to do with impatience. ********. Obviously the people who designed those green areas at the front don't agree with you. Why not, indeed, go past the wagon on the RIGHT? Y'know, the side that you're meant to overtake stuff...? Not at a queue at a junction. Well, no, you're not actually MEANT to overtake queues at junctions anyway. That's totally irrelevant. Clearly. How would you squeeze between the bumpers to get to the right anyway? Why do you need to "squeeze between the bumpers"? Either that or leapfrog over the vehicles. I can't imagine what you have in mind. Would it be safe to pop out from between vehicles into the middle of the road? Of course it wouldn't. But why would you be doing that, anyway? By taking a fairly rigid bicycle through a two-foot gap at right angles to the direction of traffic. Seems to me like you don't have the first clue about defensive cycling and basic road positioning. It seems to me that you've never seen a road. Maybe you've seen one described in a book and misunderstood. |
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