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dancing james
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Going on things learnt from within this forum.
An RLJ is illegal. Riding a bicycle on a pavement/footpath is illegal.
The forum has some that do a police watch/warning for police check points at key junctions, so don't RLJ at flagged points.
It has also come up that by getting off a bicycle and walking across the pavement to do a left turn under a red light will not get a ticket for RLJ as you have not ridden through a light and through a junction. This according to forum posts i have read is done with police watching and no tickets issued.
So left turn, stop, get off, wheel bicycle across pavement, rejoin road, remount bicycle, pedal away no offence.
Right turn, stop, get off, wheel bicycle across road and pavement as a ped would legally, then cross again, rejoin road, remount bicycle, pedal away no offence.
Time savings could be marginal/pointless.
Jump a light and risk T-boning a bus, a recent vid link in a thread on here somewhere.