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edscoble-
It baffles me that you're asking me to use 100% of the attention I use to navigate the road safely to avoid peds that are blatantly flouting the rules that are there to keep people safe.
I don't jump red lights and expect cars and lorries to compensate for my blatant disregard for their safety and my own, there is no difference what so ever.
If you can't call a ped out for jumping a red then you can't call a cyclist out for doing it either.
Isn't it just so much simpler to encourage people to use crossings and junctions as they are supposed to?
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Like I said above dude we have a lot to concentrate on and sometimes can't devote 100% of our attention to look for peds, especially when we're doing our over shoulder checks and stuff, it only takes a second for someone to run out.
It's a nice sentiment, but how do we draw the line here?
At traffic crossings we the share right of way, and we have traffic lights to tell us when we can do that safely. If there isn't any kind of system in place and people can run into the road at any time then it's up to the skill of each individual road user to avert a collision, how would we quantify who is safe enough to be a road user?