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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!f16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <422b45e8-88dc-4c8a-8d06-57c6b15417a6@f16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Forced to use the primary position. Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:22:25 -0700 (PDT) References:    Lines: 28 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243268545 3508 127.0.0.1 (25 May 2009 16:22:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2632 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:704026

On May 25, 2:08=A0pm, "Simon Mason"  wrote: > "JNugent"  wrote in message > > > As pictured, those road markings are for guidance only. There is nothin= g > > mandatory about them and motor vehicles are no more barred from the > > nearside lane than any other sort of vehicle. > > Those type of road layouts are quite common around here and drivers tend = to > keep out of the cycle lane in practice. Anybody caught undertaking traffi= c > by driving in the cycle lane gets more abuse from drivers than a cyclist > "holding them up".

Only from the ignorant and self-righteous ones.

> There are also lanes like this with solid white lines which *are* illegal > for cars to cross over and encroach into the cycle lane.

Let's be glad that the one in the OP isn't like that. As with (some) hatched out dividing lanes with dashed lines, it gives those of us who actually know the Highway Code a handy way of overtaking slowsters. And if sanctimonious fuckwits who *don't* know the Highway Code want to flash their lights, that won't stop us: it just goes to show even more that self-righteous, sanctimonious types are almost invariably stupid and ignorant as well, and that therefore their complaining doesn't need to be taken remotely seriously.