Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

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Nein, nein! Das kann nicht sein!

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greenhell
@greenhell is a fucking cuntgalaxy and should be ignored at all costs.

hey festus. i think owe you a drink.

Digger's bareback party?

Zappi's CC. Waste of road space.

Fair play they were fast, TT'ing the 90 mile sportive course and finishing high up the board.

But, they really upset some riders along the way. Amazing to see a group going fast giving no shouts to warn riders, passing stupidly close, taking up a whole lane and not moving when shouted at by a passing rider.

Feels more and more like a gift when a rider uses verbal and hand signals during a ride.

The bloke who hit a van by flying through the red light on the CS2 at the Whitechaple High St. Leaman St. junction.

This junction bothers me. There are lights on the CS2 lane, a feeder left turning lane on the right. So when CS2 light is red, feeder lane light is green, so motor vehicles can turn left. Idiot(s) don't respect the red on the cycle lane, goes flying past a line of stationary bikes, directly in to the blind spot of a left turning van, who simply couldn't see him.

Sure he should of stopped at the red.Absolutely ! But in real life some people don't. I really do fear this is a fatality wanting to happen.

Dose anybody know who ? Where ? Would be the best place to mention this, to try and get some change to happen ?

Over-complicating junctions never works. The problems it causes are by no means limited to people disregarding traffic signals. You want simple, every time. I haven't had a look at that junction yet, but all the other designs I've seen along there are simply appalling.

I had an interesting time the other day observing the Cambridge Heath Road junction for half an hour in the evening peak. Hair-raising doesn't begin to describe it. If anyone had designed that junction in traffic engineering school, they would have been failed. Apart from the split phase problem that you mention, the phases for the north-south/south-north/associated turning movements are so short (as with additional signal phases even more priority is given to east-west movements than before, never good) that drivers found themselves stranded ahead of the stop line in almost every signal phase, blocking the nearside that bike riders are now expected to go along, causing several people to nearly be hit by following drivers when trying to go around the bonnets of the cars blocking their path. There were serious turning conflicts on almost every phase (especially at the left turn into Cambridge Heath Road as riders freely picked from the various options available to them now--too many to list, and very confusing), and exit behaviour (always a good indicator of driver experience at a junction) was appalling, especially southbound in Sidney Street (although, to be honest, Sidney Street has always been a basket case). One driver took it upon himself to overtake another very closely at speed, just where the footway juts out sharply, nearly crashing into a northbound driver coming the other way. The entrance to the shopping side street parallel to the A11 on the north-east side several times nearly saw riders taken out by turning drivers.

I'll have a look at the Commercial Street/Leman Street junction sometime soon, just haven't had time yet.

You could go along to a Tower Hamlets Wheelers meeting or join their mailing list and discuss it there:

http://www.wheelers.org.uk/

This style of junctions works very well in Holland, I was up and down the CS2 yesterday and these lights are novel.. What they are not is complicated, stop at red, go at green, never meet a conflicting movement.

Conclusions based on a short term appraisal are fairly meaningless, they need time to bed in, people need time to get used to them, riders flying through red lights past stationary queues are going to come a cropper regardless of road design.

You want simple, every time

No, no you don't. Exhibition road is simple and a nightmare for anyone not on four wheels, the lack of implied priority leads to the largest heaviest vehicles assuming priority.

There's a similar setup on the A106 eastbound at the junction with Orient Way. It's where part of the Mini Holland scheme is about to begin so they segregate cyclists on a slightly raised roadway on the left and give us a separate light system. However, this light system is biased towards motorists and forces a cyclist to wait much longer than some of us (I'm guilty of this) should be.

However, the worst part is. When the signal for left turning cars has turned red, but the green light is still on for cars continuing along the A106 Ruckholt Road, there is also a green light for cyclists on the very left and some cars see this (cycle shaped green light) and think it's a green light for their left turn... I've witnessed so many near misses and every cyclist I've spoken to waiting at the lights hate the new way the junction has been setup.

Also, westbound. The cycle lane forces the cyclist to go left down a slip road for a while before using a shared zebra crossing, but having to look back nearly 180º over their shoulder to check for traffic while approaching the crossing. Then cars also don't seem to slow down like they do for pedestrians allowing them to cross. Some do, but most...

I'm not sure it's completely the fault of bad road planning or just ignorance of drivers who don't know any better.

Noticed that turning right from Cambridge Heath Road onto Whitechapel Road is a bit nightmarish for many drivers, when observed from the lights to turn right onto Sidney Street. Every time, without fail, once the lights turn green you have to set off slowly and creep around the back of traffic stuck in the middle of the junction, as they pile up quite quick.

Having that said, it's a lot better than it used to be and there's a lot less pedestrians walking out into the road without checking crossings (apart from Sidney Street to Blind Beggar...). People seem to be paying more attention to the red and green men!

Some fella head to toe in black rapha gear and pink socks with cap but no lid on a gorgeous teal couloured steel thang with modern group going through aaall the reds and general no stopping when rocketing out onto the outer circle whilst I was doing laps last night. bike was gorgeous, shame your riding was less so enamouring

Lid,?

Yeah he'd lost the lid to his water bottle and was accidentally spraying everyone with water from his bottle as he rode past. Total knob jockey.

Lots of morons on the cycle lane on the wrong side of the road lately. Too lazy to cross road twice.

(no it's not a two way one and it's not even segregated from road)

Hellmut

And why is his lack of a helmet worthy of mention?

Was he wearing an avalanche transceiver?

for identification... a description... the same reason i mentioned his other attire.... and the colour/ poor description of his bicycle!! ........

person on bike riding like a douche. is that better?

How dare you describe someone! Your superfluous words have wasted your time and ours. From now on, keep all typing to a minimum.

riding cnut...

cunt buyer rider

for identification... a description... the same reason i mentioned his other attire.

But your description is incomplete, you have failed to mention all the other stuff he wasn't wearing.

Precisely