Cyclists who ride on the road and ignore traffic lights

[countryman]

It must be a minority as I can't even remember ever seeing a cyclist skip a red light.

But whilst people are moaning, I shall have a different moan. When I'm riding my bike and I slow down to let a car out, just go. It is very annoying to lose all my speed and be close to stationary because a car driver will not pull out. Especially if I'm about to reach an incline.

 

[Stat Brother]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-23723866

A 5 second headstart sounds good.

That article perfectly encapsulates the problem with cycling in urban Britain.

If you're going straight ahead where the fook are you supposed to ride?

 

[teaboy]

That article perfectly encapsulates the problem with cycling in urban Britain.

If you're going straight ahead where the fook are you supposed to ride?

Eh? The same place you'd position yourself if you were in a car, as you should anyway.

 

[Stat Brother]

Eh? The same place you'd position yourself if you were in a car, as you should anyway.

Well yeah, but there's hardly the room its not exactly conducive to safe cycling.

 

[teaboy]

It's difficult - with my roadie/London commuter hat on I don't have an issue with that particular layout. On my shopping bike I might feel differently.

The problem with the layout may not even be in that photo, but slightly further back - any sort of cycle lane would be on the left, which may encourage cyclists up the left hand side of left-turning vehicles ("Use of cycle lanes is not compulsory and will depend on your experience and skills, but they can make your journey safer. Highway Code rule 63", except when they put you in the absolute worst place for anyone to be). There probably isn't the need for that filter, and a proper reconfiguration into a simple crossroads with ASLs (without feeder lanes) and priority lights might help.

I'd be interested to know if there's a particular problem at that junction that this trial might help solve, or whether it's been picked as it's safe anyway...

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-23723866

A 5 second headstart sounds good.

We have this in Berlin on some busy junctions. Works perfectly.

 

[TheJasperCo]

It must be a minority as I can't even remember ever seeing a cyclist skip a red light.

But whilst people are moaning, I shall have a different moan. When I'm riding my bike and I slow down to let a car out, just go. It is very annoying to lose all my speed and be close to stationary because a car driver will not pull out. Especially if I'm about to reach an incline.

I agree with both points. Many cyclists seem to slow down and stop at lights by pedestrian crossings. And I used to try and let motorists out at junctions, but they would invariably stare at me dumbfounded and not move, so I've since given that up.

As an aside, I would like to make the case that NO ONE looks good in lycra:

 

[£1.99]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-23723866

A 5 second headstart sounds good.

The lights on the Old Shoreham Rd cycle lane do this!

 

[Garage_Doors]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-23723866

A 5 second headstart sounds good.

This already happens on the Lewes road