Near Miss of the Day 754: MGIF driver closes passes on school run – only to be followed by cyclist for next minute

wtjs wrote:

...the police think any passing when the cyclist wasn't actually hit...wasn't actually close enough. Don't worry about having to go to court- with most forces, you never will

Avoidance is clearly better than the effort and uncertainty of reports after the incident. Thus a 1.5m plastic pipe perpendicular to the seat post serves to get attention, wider passes, and if hit be that evidence of collision required for prosecution when combined with a video (audio).

Ten 'oi mate, you've got a pipe stuck in the Bike' are so much more convenient than a trip to A&E..

Photo and audio evidence of pipe collision are so much more obvious than a bad-word-cos-I-feared-for-my-life.

Yes, you can ride two abreast in one lane as allowed obviously with another cyclist who knows why you have fitted it.

Your milage may vary but so far it works for me typically outside metropolitan roads, sometimes in bike lanes.

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Sounds good. Please post a photo.

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Did a similar thing a few years back when commuting, but used 25mm plastic conduit, was less than a meter long in my case, with a pivot on the rear rack so that I could swing it out of the way when I got home/work.

I fitted 2 Cateye flashing lights on the end and one on the seatpost and it proved to be very effective, especially at night.

Removed it in the end because it reduced my ability to filter through traffic.

Toying with the idea of making a telescopic version.

Yes, 174
Box junctions. These have criss-cross yellow lines painted on the road (download ‘Road markings’). You MUST NOT enter the box until your exit road or lane is clear. However, you may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic, or by other vehicles waiting to turn right.

I believe the war on motorists will extend to LAs being able to penalise hard working, tax paying, law abiding drivers for yellow box offences.

Otherwise law abiding...

You assume correctly I'm sorry to say.

Instead of the more logical conclusion that the CPS simply reviewed the evidence once the driver had decided they needed to go to court to challenge the prosecution and the CPS realised they had only a tiny chance of success, and simply went for the percentages outcome.

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More logical, sure, but that would stop these knee-jerkers from criticising 'those who can do no right and who do everything wrong'.

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Absolutely!! And my biggest bugbear; people who have a driveway/path - but decide not to use it, and park on the road. Why??

Why do people think they can leave personal property on the road? 

Because they can.

Here's this morning's collection from looking out the window.  (Bonus - the postie's having a fag break there on the double-yellows where delivery drivers / driving instructors normally park up).  Note the "double-up" combo - this is very popular hereabouts * .  Despite there being marked bays they've managed to block footway and nose into the single lane road.  There are more free bays to the left round the corner and a big ol' mostly empty carpark 60 metres to the right.  (There's another huge one at the top - empty because you have to pay - a tenner a month I think).  There were another couple of folks doing the same thing this morning; the only oddity was there are normally several other cars fully on the pavement.  And yes - when I've noticed there has always been at least one bay free.

Now this isn't exactly blocking the ambulances - it's all dead ends and a residential area.  But it's a marked "home zone" (meaningless) and this happens everywhere in Edinburgh.

* I'm ignorant of the reason - is it to stop thieves or done by the thieves / shady types to block recovery vehicles?