[QUOTE="platypus"] Never touch the stuff.[/QUOTE] Wot's CBT?
In the Netherlands it seems the same - almost as if the crossing designates a location where the pedestrian may cross rather than one where road traffic must give way. Bicycles are, of course, an exception to this, and receive far better treatment than pedestrian traffic. Neil
The Older Gentleman writtificated "Tests? Insurance? Sod getting a bike, I'll continue to drive in. Oh bugger, the place is gridlocked with cars." Crap in theory, crap in practice.
Very often it is difficult to drive a door's width from parked vehicles. If she had opened the door in front of a passing car would you still be complaining?
I remember years ago, when Simon Milward came off his bike after forgetting about PaD in Brussels. Fucking stupid law it is. And in France, it's equally stupid.
You are saying in Belgium you must always give way to the minor road? and be able to guess the fucker is there in the first place?
Sometimes & Sometime But my question was prefectly serious. Ok jaywalking is an American term but do pedo's have any legal responsibilities or not? As I said in this thread, I mowed one down years ago and the Beak seemed to think he hadn't given me due care before crossing.
Actually the only people who have a legal right to be on the public highway in England are pedestrians and horse riders. In Scotland cyclists do as well because in Scotland cyclists count as pedestrians. But motorists do not have a right to use the roads anywhere in Britain - that's why you need a licence. That doesn't excuse pedestrians from having the same obligations to respect the rule of the road as anyone else, of course.
The PaD thing has bloody nearly caught me out a couple of times, always in minor villages and towns where you still find it from time to time.
But the judge did. He handed down the sentence, so you'd probably be better off taking it up with him. She killed someone. I wonder if you'd be so liberal if it was a member of your family she'd killed? -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
It's a moot point. It's the system we have and until someothing changes, it's the one we have to work with. I Noted. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
Actually, a lot of work in cycle training is in training cyclists to ride in the primary position most of the time, for exactly the same safety reasons as motorcylists should ride in the primary position most of the time. If you ride in the secondary position too many motorists pass you far to close for safety, trying to squeeze past you without going over the white line, and if you ride closer in you've nowhere to go when motorists start being real arses. And, of course, it's critical to train cyclists to stay out of the door-zone - one third of all deaths and serious injuries of cyclists in London are the result of doorings.
