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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!eweka.nl!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!cyclone01.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe14.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Killer cycle paths. Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:32:49 +0000 References:  Lines: 19 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.12.82.202 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe14.ams2 1235748770 86.12.82.202 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:32:50 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:32:50 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 2081 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:687417

Simon Mason wrote: > Coming home from work down our docks road at 3 pm yesterday, I faced a > 25 mph headwind, so at the first opportunity I decided to bail out and > cross the main carriageway using the light controlled cycle crossing to > get to the other side of the road and head home a different way. > > I pushed the button and the lights for the road went to red. As I > checked to my left to see if the traffic had stopped, a lorry sailed > past in the inside lane followed by three cars overtaking it. Had I > followed the green cycle symbol and crossed I would surely have been > killed by these law breaking idiots. > > These facilities only work if drivers obey the law. I won't be using > them again, that's for sure. I wasn't wearing a helmet as it is no > defence to being hit legally using a crossing by cars speeding through > red lights at 50 mph. > > Yeah I know! Should be a law against it. Oh, hang on...