• I feel that in this situation you should've waited instead of shouting at them/swerving around them.

    Are you saying it was completely impossible to stop and wait for them to cross?

    I have mentioned that there wasn't a lot of stopping distance. I shouted to get there attention as they should've be paying more of it. Swerve was to avoid a collision.

    Thin old line rule 170. If they were as vigilant as they should have been, they would have seen roboto and held back. If he came along moments later, as they were crossing, then they would have had priority.

    I've just been out there on my lunch break and witnessed more people just carelessly crossing this junction without checking as cyclists signal to turn down there.

    We can be fairly certain they did the usual thing that all non-cyclist-sympathetic people do, which is let a car go and then completely filter the cyclist from their vision, or belligerently walk in front of the cyclist expecting them to stop or crash to avoid them.

    With knowledge of this cultural status quo, it would seem most prudent to slow down in anticipation.

    In my experience people seem to think that it's not that bad to walk out in front of a cyclist as we all only travel about 8mph and it's a soft landing if there is a collision. I did slow down for the corner as it's not a good corner for leaning (no corner is) and taking at speed.

    I take this turn everyday, I'm very cautious about wandering peds. I just used this one example of my recent memory of it to call out the bad parenting. Kids need to learn to respect the road and how to cross safely, it doesn't help when they get dragged across by their parents.

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