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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!z28g2000vbl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <5a28de60-dea7-40ee-995a-b8313844b346@z28g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Passing stationary / parked cars Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:35:05 -0700 (PDT) References:    <7356557e-37b9-4f5d-92f2-fcd15ddcc351@f33g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 49 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.209.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247394905 12612 127.0.0.1 (12 Jul 2009 10:35:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:35:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z28g2000vbl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.209.43; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3872 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:716581

On Jul 12, 10:56=A0am, "mileburner"  wrote: > Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > > > > > On Jul 12, 6:58 am, "mileburner"  wrote: > > >>>> When cycling on small roads in residential areas, you often get a > >>>> situation where one side of the road is blocked by parked cars and > >>>> there is only enough room for one vehicle to pass. > >>>> Who has right of way in this situation? I've heard two > >>>> contradictory opinions. > >>>> a) The vehicle that is on the same side of the road as the parked > >>>> car must give way to oncoming traffic, as passing the parked car > >>>> would result in travelling on the wrong side of the road. > >>>> b) Both vehicles have equal right of way, the one that reaches the > >>>> gap first has priority. > >>>> Which of these is correct? > > >> I have always taken b) to be the case. Whoever got there first. On a > >> practical basis this works fine as if there is not enough room for > >> two "whoever got there last" is forced to give way. > > > I think you are wrong. =A0If one vehicle can proceed on its own side of > > the road and the other has to cross to the opposite side to pass, it > > would be odd, I think, if the vehicle proceeding in lane did not have > > priority. =A0I will acknowledge, though, that a good many drivers behav= e > > as if the vehicle passing the parked car has priority. > > However, if you get there first, there would be little point in giving wa= y > if the vehicle coming the other way that had not yet reached the obsticle=.

If they were going to reach the obstacle at any point before you would finish passing the obstacle, then you bloody well should let them through. It's their right of way and you have no right to hold them up. It's people with attitudes like your "I'm going to force my way through because I'm more important than you, and there's nothing you can do about it" one who are the real problem drivers, not people who go above an arbitrary number on a sign.

Of course it's possible to misjudge how close someone was to the obstacle, but deliberately pushing your way through against right of way just because the other person can't physically do anything about it is not on. And waving to say "Thanks" doesn't really make it any better (although I'm sure you don't bother with silly things like that anyway...after all, other motorists are scum according to you).