Red light jumper gets short shrift.

Mark

On Mon, 19 May 2008 18:18:22 +0100, "Simon Mason"
<simonmason@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"Mark" <i@getlotsofspamthankstoplus.net> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 18 May 2008 13:34:34 +0100, "Simon Mason"
>> <simonmason@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>A cyclist who moaned about getting a 30 quid fine for cycling through a
>>>red
>>>light gets no sympathy in our local paper.
>>
>> When waiting at a red light a few days ago a motorist next to me
>> looked at me with a very puzzled expression and said "why are you
>> waiting there?"
>
>
>I would have said "why aren't you on the 'phone?" ;-)

LOL!

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Paul Boyd

On 19/05/2008 23:26, Tom Crispin said,

> Yes, the toucan crossings I am thinking about in particular have
> things that took like small CCTV cameras pointed at cyclists and
> pedestrians. One of the crossings is a split crossing - with a
> central reservation for cyclists and pedestrians.

You should try a newly installed one in Weston-super-Mare (by Asda, for
the locals!). It is a split crossing in the sense that there is a
central reservation, but no lights or buttons on the reservation. The
green men are angled so that when you're crossing you can't actually see
any, and the lights have changed in favour of traffic as I'm crossing
the second half (on foot). There is a post with a push-button on one
side, but the sensor doesn't cover it so you lose your "turn" in the
sequence if you wait by the post. The council's response to my
complaint was that it was all working as it should....

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Roger Merriman

David Hansen <SENDdavidNOhSPAM@spidacom.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:35:46 +0100 someone who may be
> NEWS@wodger.demon.co.uk (Roger Merriman) wrote this:-
>
> >i find that catching up to them partical if they are going for the
> >"courier" look and leaving them for dead on a bike with paniers, front
> >basket etc, drives the point home! ;-)
>
> I am told that overtaking some poser while riding a Brompton and
> wearing a floral dress causes the poser what appears to be great
> discomfort as he (it nearly always is a he I suspect) tries to catch
> up and overtake.
>
> While I have never done this in a dress, floral or plain, some
> people in lycra, sun glasses and so on do seem somewhat upset to be
> overtaken by someone on a small wheeled bike. It must be some part
> of the male persuasion which does not affect me.

heh i notice that those commuters who take it seriously aka courier look
a likes, and such do seem to get a little upset as by the time they've
cliped in i've pootled off from the lights and quite often have gone
some distance by the time they've got them selfs in to gear, if one
keeps repeating the perfomace they do seem to get a tat anoyed as one
shouldn't be left behind by a bloke in work clothes on a cheap hybrid +
full paniers etc.

people are funny old things.

roger
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TimB

On May 19, 8:42 am, spindrift <newty...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> There really is no answer to that, or to the cyclist who jumped every
> red light going down City Road and who, when I reminded her that it
> was dangerous, agreed heartily and said:
>
> "Once a car nearly hit me!"

Which for some reason reminds me of the person who refused to buy
South African fruit in apartheid boycott days, only for the shopkeeper
to say 'I understand, it's the thought of those black hands on your
fruit'..... There's no answer to that.

JNugent

TimB wrote:

> spindrift <newty...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> There really is no answer to that, or to the cyclist who jumped every
>> red light going down City Road and who, when I reminded her that it
>> was dangerous, agreed heartily and said:

>> "Once a car nearly hit me!"

> Which for some reason reminds me of the person who refused to buy
> South African fruit in apartheid boycott days, only for the shopkeeper
> to say 'I understand, it's the thought of those black hands on your
> fruit'..... There's no answer to that.

John Dankworth (husband of Cleo Laine) tells that almost exact story. He
says he asked for some oranges off a barrow in Covent Garden, then
changed his mind when he saw that they were a product of South Africa.
The stall-holder said "You'e probably right - you never know what
nig-nog's 'ad their 'ands all over 'em".

MJ Ray

Paul Boyd <usenet@abcd.invalid> wrote:
> You should try a newly installed one in Weston-super-Mare (by Asda, for
> the locals!). [...madness...] The council's response to my
> complaint was that it was all working as it should....

Please can you forward me a copy of that? I think it contradicts a
response I had, that it was awaiting correction by the constructors.
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