Re: Considerate driving



Brimstone wrote:
MrBitsy wrote:
Brimstone wrote:
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?


Why is his journey inconsiderate?

It isn't, towing a trailer that's blocking the road, thus stopping
other traffic from making progress, is.

Would a milk float doing the same speed be inconsiderate?
He has as much right to be on the road as anybody else, perhaps the problem
is that he wasn't doing over 30mph.


--
JFG


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