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@neilp
Seriously there are some idiots on the road at the moment. Why are people so fucking impatient!! Track standing with about 40cm between myself an the next guy, front wheel on the white line at a red light and some women comes squeezing through, then gave me a dirty, surprised look when I called her out.
Also I am really unconvinced on the benefit of the ASL box sometimes and think it causes more problems and danger. People just cannot wait inline... The same guy this morning would over take and several others overtake during moving traffic. Stop at the ASL as the first person there, then he comes up on the outside positioning himself in the middle of the outside line. This is no fucking safer or quicker and just pisses everyone off. Cars get annoyed because some nodder is doing 10mph in the outside lane and cyclists get pissed off because you are forced to either undertake, not a prescribed method of passing or wait for him to sort his shit out and get back into the inside line, before going passed on the outside for the nth number of times.
Also banksmen were directing a tipper into the old magistrates court on Old st, stopping traffic, why is it so hard to wait for 30sec-a min politely for them to do this, rather than trying to scoot around or mounting the pavement and cycling down that. Yes, on the pavement probably isn't hurting anyone physically but it is damaging to the cause of lobbying for more safety around bikes. If you seriously cannot wait get of a fucking walk.
Rant over, but there are a lot of people who are not helping their own safety and not helping cyclist gain respect from other road users.