New Highway code rules ffs

[Derrick Hughes]

Road rage aggressive or angry behavior exhibited by motorists. These behaviors include rude and verbal insults, physical threats or dangerous driving methods targeted at other drivers, pedestrians or cyclists in an effort to intimidate or release frustration. Road rage can lead to altercations, damage to property, assaults and collisions that result in serious physical injuries or even death. Strategies include long horn honks, swerving, tailgating, brake checking and attempting to fight.


According to a study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety that examined police records nationally, there were more than 1,200 incidents of road rage on average reported per year between 1990–1996 Many of these incidents have ended with serious injuries or even fatalities. These rates rose yearly throughout the six years of the study.[1] A number of studies have found that individuals with road rage are predominantly young (33 years old on average) and 96.6% male.[2

 

[Exfarmer]

It will be used as a charter for more road rage IMO

One thing that should be enforced is the requirement to fit AND use a bell to all bikes

It sounds a good idea, but I can assure you a total waste of time. Nothing less than a police siren gets through to the t******s out there walking there pooch with their pods in their ears . Now we have cans which are nearly 100% efficient at keeping sound out and Gemma has not noticed her pooch has torn the throat out of half the local sheep population

 

[combinedoctor]

Any update should have included a ban on wearing earphones and earbuds whilst in the vicinity of highway traffic.

I cycle, it makes no difference with earphones as you only here wind in your ears at normal cycling speed anyway.
Also not all cyclists are twits, just like all tractor drivers aren't.
The twits just make everyone's life a little harder no matter what they ride or drive

 

[Boomerang]

Plenty of bellends on bikes

Plenty of bellends in everything , bikes ,motorbikes, trucks ,cars ,tractors , it's not exclusive to bikes.

 

[bobk]

Plenty of bellends in everything , bikes ,motorbikes, trucks ,cars ,tractors , it's not exclusive to bikes.

All about perception

 

[Bald Rick]

Road rage aggressive or angry behavior exhibited by motorists. These behaviors include rude and verbal insults, physical threats or dangerous driving methods targeted at other drivers, pedestrians or cyclists in an effort to intimidate or release frustration. Road rage can lead to altercations, damage to property, assaults and collisions that result in serious physical injuries or even death. Strategies include long horn honks, swerving, tailgating, brake checking and attempting to fight.


According to a study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety that examined police records nationally, there were more than 1,200 incidents of road rage on average reported per year between 1990–1996 Many of these incidents have ended with serious injuries or even fatalities. These rates rose yearly throughout the six years of the study.[1] A number of studies have found that individuals with road rage are predominantly young (33 years old on average) and 96.6% male.[2

With all due respect, road rage is not exclusive to motorists

Cyclist headbutts pedestrian in violent road rage attack

Police want to track down the cyclist involved

www.walesonline.co.uk

video here

 

[bobk]

Under the new guidelines cyclists are not mandated to stop at traffic lights or pedestrian crossings

Effie joke
A

 

[Courier]

I cycle, it makes no difference with earphones as you only here wind in your ears at normal cycling speed anyway.
Also not all cyclists are twits, just like all tractor drivers aren't.
The twits just make everyone's life a little harder no matter what they ride or drive

Must depend on the shape of your ears, I was including pedestrians.

 

[ollie989898]

I would say that any road user should avoid any kind of confrontation with other road users. Throw up your hands, feign innocent, play daft, admit liability whatever, just don't get involved with folk. For some reason people can become very aggressive on the roads and lash out and do things they would never do in ordinary life.

 

[Renaultman]

I cycle, it makes no difference with earphones as you only here wind in your ears at normal cycling speed anyway.
Also not all cyclists are twits, just like all tractor drivers aren't.
The twits just make everyone's life a little harder no matter what they ride or drive

A like but I disagree on the ear pods, even with the wind in my ears I can hear approaching vehicles.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

All this is pointless, if you hate cyclist that much go out and crush a few , but try and avoid the Blue Cannondale, I try my best to be one of the good guys

 

[holywell farmer]

With all due respect, road rage is not exclusive to motorists

Cyclist headbutts pedestrian in violent road rage attack

Police want to track down the cyclist involved

www.walesonline.co.uk

video here

Hope the cyclist was charged with assault

 

[Renaultman]

All this is pointless, if you hate cyclist that much go out and crush a few , but try and avoid the Blue Cannondale, I try my best to be one of the good guys

Same here, although with cyclo cross I am mostly annoying pedestrians and dog walkers at the moment. I do love my roadie but my fellow roadie cyclists are a pretty ignorant, miserable, antisocial bunch in general.

 

[glasshouse]

Cyclists should be forced to wear hi viz jackets , and not black.
No earphones allowed also

 

[Cowabunga]

The worse aspect of this is giving pedestrians right of way at junctions. Whoever thought that one up should pay for all the rear end shunts and the medical costs of all the pedestrians that will be mowed down exercising what they will believe to be their right.
Jaywalkers that cross the road anywhere but on a designated pedestrian crossing in America are jailed. I wouldn’t go that far, but why meddle with a system that currently works well in the UK and has done for probably nearly a century.
Same goes for bikes, whose riders, by the way, I’ve witnessed over the years to be the most arrogant, ignorant and nasty types that totally ignore all rules of the road while having the privilege of not being forced to pay for third party insurance or road tax.

 

[Cowabunga]

Under the new guidelines cyclists are not mandated to stop at traffic lights or pedestrian crossings

Effie joke
A

Absolutely ridiculous. Is it April 1st already?

 

[gone up the hill]

Just ignore it and carry on like normal.

Cyclists are fair game anyway

 

[Rowland]

Why is everyone getting so uptight about this?

The Highway Code is not the Law/a legal document, it's Code of Practice, a recommendation of how you should act as a road user.

Not complying with the Highway Code will not result in you appearing in Court.

However, if you are in Court for a motoring offence (ie accused of breaking the Law) the Prosecution may claim that if you have not followed the Code, that is an indication that you may have broken the Law, but they still have to prove you have broken the law, not just failed to follow the code.

Ok so when you get done for doing 50 mph in a 30 Mph are use that defence

 

[combinedoctor]

A like but I disagree on the ear pods, even with the wind in my ears I can hear approaching vehicles.

Your ears must be a different shape.
I wear things my helmet straps to deflect the air away from my ears so I can hear traffic approaching, without these I hear wind only.
(Perhaps I'm quicker )

 

[DrWazzock]

When I worked in Trafford Park and lived in Sale 25 years ago I used to cycle to work everyday. It was much quicker than the bus which was always stuck in the jams. On the way home I used to come through Stretford then had to join the A56 merging onto it from the right across 3 lanes just before the slip road onto the M63. It wasn’t about who had right of way, it was about finding a gap and going for it. If you were sensible it was survivable, but I was known in the office as “donor”. Did that route for three years summer and winter sometimes detouring into Old Trafford for evening classes. Went back for a holiday with the Mrs but the road layout seems to have changed a bit and the old GEC factory on Westinghouse Road where I worked had gone. The only mishap I ever had was I hit a rail embedded in the road as i went through a water filled pot hole. The water obscured the fact that the rail was now presenting a square edge, which turned my back wheel square very quickly. I mentioned this defect on the site road to the personnel department. All it neeeded was some road planings bashing in, but instead they closed that entrance to the site and I had to cycle round to the north entrance. Such was the logic of British industry on its last legs.
Anyway the moral was to always assume other road users are deaf and blind if you are on a bike. Arguing the toss over who had right of way won’t do you much good if you’ve just been steam rollered by an artic.