Re: Considerate driving

Tom Crispin wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:34:38 -0700, Carey
<carey.shipley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A couple of days ago I'm driving down a fairly busy road about to
turn left into a side road. As I'm doing so two ladys step into the
side road with their pushchairs, they see me and try to hurry up a
bit but not quick enough to cross the road without me having to
stop. I wasn't in a hurry so I waited for them to cross. As I'm
doing so a car pulls up behind me and beeps the horn, at me I'm
assuming. Presumably I was supposed to drive over into the
pedestrians?

Today I approach a queue of traffic and I stop about two car lengths
from the car in front. I do this because just on the left there is a
side road and any cars coming from the opposite direction that wanted
to turn would be blocked by me and hence all the cars behind.

Am I doing anything wrong in these examples or are there just too
many idiots on the road?

I find people to be incredibly impatient.

I have just bought a new trailer for my bicycle to transport other
bikes:

www.johnballcycling.org.uk/photos/trailer/index

Today, at 8.30am, I cycled along the A20, a short single carriageway
section in Inner London, with one lane in each direction. I kept
well within the 30mph speed limit, yet some motorists seemed to feel
that I had no right to be on the road. I was both cut up and beeped
several times.

With a trailer that width on a narrow road in the middle of the rush hour
I'm not suprised that some people were impatient. Have you ever considered
shewing some co0nsideration for other road users?

Oh, and before you ask, since the photos above were taken I have
modified the trailer. The two outside bikes face forwards and the two
inside bikes face backwards. That means that the outside bikes' rear
lights and reflectors are clearly visible to the rear at either side
of the trailer.

Why can't they all face forward?


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