The lorry, no shadow of doubt as the cyclist was in front well before the lorry hit him. The lorry driver condemned himself by claiming the cyclist came up inside him when he clearly hadn't, so he hadn't been making the appropriate observations. Saying that, the guy with the camera was a dick for doing exactly what the lorry driver accused his 'victim' of. His comments about the safety videos applied to the cameraman.
Cyclist goes straight on from a turn left lane. Camera man proves self regulating law-unto-themselves attitude of cyclists who claims because cyclists are always on the left in London then it's entirely the lorry drivers fault. It wasn't actually the video I was looking for which I couldn't find, there was one from the A5 a year or two ago where the lorry was at a tight junction half in the straight on and turn left lanes, indicating to turn left, yet the cyclists cut up his inside anyway and got forced off the road. Similar post incident heated confrontation ensues where cyclists are right and lorry driver wrong just because. Lots of car drivers are no better, but it takes something special for an exposed cyclist to pull off that sort of ****, it's generally the pedal power religion types with a real attitude who think they're king of the road and everyone will make way for them who do these things when 99% of the time they're middle aged men in a mid life crisis who really know better. This video should be shown in every school across the country and a mandatory part of any car/motorbike/vehicle/cyclic proficiency or whatever test:
If we're doing this anyway, lorries are the bloody worst. Half of em are asleep and they never look like they can reliably stay in their own lane on motorways without nodding off and wiping you out.
I cycle these days, and have done for many a year, if I need a car I hire one but for many long journeys I use National Express, it's cheaper. My point is simple, there is, and has been for many years, and forever will be, too much traffic on our roads, to accommodate everyone. It doesn't matter which road we talk about the problems are the same, I have just come back from a 9 days in Italy, travelled by coach, and it's the same through France, Switzerland and Italy, one accident and gridlock. Local roads, side streets are becoming chocker with on street parking, this spat about time trials on the Clive Sullivan Way is nothing compared to the overall problems, banning them will not improve anything one iota.
An interesting read imho. https://www.citylab.com/transportat...tter [issue:17142]&utm_term=Smart Cities Dive
If, like back in the day, all school kids had a bike, or walked, we could all get to work easier. Lazy little ****ers.
Totally agree...although it would also require the same school to child ratio too because too many have merged, or closed in really rural areas, at a time when the population is increasing I’d be all for too though
Then everyone moans that you have to wait 40 weeks for your post and 3 years for anything to arrive by courier.
That's right, even the lanes signed for turning left when you are going to go straight ahead, the footpaths when all the lanes on the road are full, the one way lanes which ever way you're travelling.
The essentials of international road haulage Restrictions on driving commercial vehicles in Europe If your business involves transporter vehicles abroad, it is worth bearing in mind that several European Union countries impose restrictions on the times and days when heavy goods vehicles can be driven on public roads. However, there is no general European standard. There is a wide variation in how long the restrictions last, when they start and finish, the types of vehicle covered and exemptions from the restrictions. France, Spain and Italy have a general ban on the movement of vehicles with a maximum gross weight of 7.5 tonnes on Sundays and during public holidays. Just travelled back from Italy, through Switzerland and France and never saw a lorry from late Saturday afternoon until Monday morning, doesn't seem to have hampered them too much.
