"Heard about our new laws? Must keep 1.5m away from cyclists on the road or face a $215 fine and 2 demerit points. So what to we do in this situation when they don't want to use a bike path? Sitin the right hand lane? Not drive on the road at all?"
It constantly happens that cyclists refuse to use the designated bike paths. I drive along a busy road every day, which has cars regularly parked on the side of the road, room only for two cars going either way, bike path available 5m to the left of the road through a park... and the cyclists are on the road. The new laws mean you have to drive at their pace.
The new laws also allow cyclists to go across pedestrian crossings, as if they are pedestrians, without getting off their bikes. They are supposed to pause, and go slowly across. The whip across. Of course, this is no change from earlier behaviour, when they were supposed to walk their cycles across the pedestrian crossing.
I'm all for treating cyclists as vulnerable on the roads, but they could do more to play their part, and make some sensible choices.
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Concerned by the wording of that. Possibly EDIT? What other possibility should we consider but to EDIT?
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Listen, fair point, but I was trying to be polite about it.
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Cyclists would have to have the lowest mental capacity of all road users. Theyre the greens of road users. Hand out for everything, bleeding hearts, pointless to argue with and smell of urine
simo wrote:Cyclists would have to have the lowest mental capacity of all road users. Theyre the greens of road users. Hand out for everything, bleeding hearts, pointless to argue with and smell of urine
Yeah, nailed it, simo
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