To be clear I am talking about cyclists who pull the bike in front of the car when there are no road marking and sometimes no left turns either. I dont have any need to "gun it away", I just prefer to drive at my own pace and not that of a cyclist.
If only it was just 2 seconds - then no-one reasonable would mind. But often across the junction is an oncoming queue of traffic waiting for the light to go green as well - and on narrow city (and suburban) streets, it can be a looong queue of traffic at certain times of the day. So if you don't get past the cyclist at the junction, you could be stuck behind them for ages with no hope of getting past because of constant oncoming traffic on a narrow road. I know it's not going to make my head explode having to wait but it is frustration like this that lead to impatience with cyclists. Haven't creamed anyone myself - just explaining the rationale for being peed off at the cyclist plonking himself at the front of the queue.WRT bikes at lights. It will take you an extra 2 seconds to get past the bike. Do you really need to gun it out of the lights?
Because many of them are dangerous and/or poorly maintained. I'm told, for example, that the bike lanes adjacent to Fairview park get so overtaken by fallen leaves during Autumn/Winter that they become slippy and pot holes can't be seen/avoided.
In these circumstances, it's actually less dangerous to slug it out with the traffic on the main road.
If only it was just 2 seconds - then no-one reasonable would mind. But often across the junction is an oncoming queue of traffic waiting for the light to go green as well - and on narrow city (and suburban) streets, it can be a looong queue of traffic at certain times of the day. So if you don't get past the cyclist at the junction, you could be stuck behind them for ages with no hope of getting past because of constant oncoming traffic on a narrow road. I know it's not going to make my head explode having to wait but it is frustration like this that lead to impatience with cyclists. Haven't creamed anyone myself - just explaining the rationale for being peed off at the cyclist plonking himself at the front of the queue.
If only it was just 2 seconds - then no-one reasonable would mind. But often across the junction is an oncoming queue of traffic waiting for the light to go green as well - and on narrow city (and suburban) streets, it can be a looong queue of traffic at certain times of the day. So if you don't get past the cyclist at the junction, you could be stuck behind them for ages with no hope of getting past because of constant oncoming traffic on a narrow road. I know it's not going to make my head explode having to wait but it is frustration like this that lead to impatience with cyclists. Haven't creamed anyone myself - just explaining the rationale for being peed off at the cyclist plonking himself at the front of the queue.
There are some that are widely used. The ones that aren't - it's usually because they're poorly designed, poorly maintained, full of pedestrians/street furniture/parked cars/glass.And why do cyclists not use cycle lanes (separate, off the road ones) when they are available?
Are you a traffic cop ?
I hate when cyclists come up the side of you and park their bike right in front of your car at traffic lights. This means I cant take off as quickly as I like as I have to wait for the cyclist to start moving.
Why do they do that?
having cycled to work for years i've found 95% of car drivers are ok (parents with kids on way to school only problem) taxi's generally are fine, Dublin Bus Drivers are generally ignorant to cyclists and seem to like nothing better than to pull out in front of us.
My advice is to stay off the road. I dont have much sympathy for cyclists, they dont pay tax or insurance, they fly in and out of cars, swerve all over the road, pay no heed to traffic lights and if you hit one you're screwed.
Motor tax is based on emmisions and as cyclists produces no emmissions during a commute, they pay the correct rate of zero
Makes me despair. How can careful cyclists argue the toss when there are tossers like this undermining their arguments?
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