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David9694 | 4 years ago
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I AM DRIVING A CAR - REPAYMENTS, PETROL, VED, INSURANCE THEN  HARASSED, TAXED, CHARGED AND FINED TO BUGGERY, THE WORLD'S MOST HARD DONE BY VICTIM:  MY JOURNEY MATTERS YOURS DOES NOT -  ALL YOU DO IS SAUNTER ALONG WITHOUT A CARE IN THE WORLD, NO AWARENESS OF WHAT OTHERS ARE DEALING WITH.
GET OUT OF MY WAY!! 

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Gary's bike channel | 4 years ago
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inspired by-https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/what-cycling-side-b...

first clip- theres no way a car would get past a cyclist there anyway. One, there are cars parked on both sides for some reason, obstructing the highway down to a much narrower width. If the cars were on driveways, the road would be wide enough to pass. As it is, it isnt safe to pass one cyclist, so it makes no difference if theyre two abreast or not, the car must still wait and should be angry at all the selfish drivers parked on the road taking all the space up, not the cyclists taking barely any space up. Second video- the riders are forcing the car following to overtake in the other lane, as required, but the driver doesnt do it, because for some reason, other car seem to come in the other direction, one after the other. That makes no sense to me. If you were out in early afternoon on a road, you would expect to see maybe one car, or two in say half an hour. Not one every 5 to ten seconds. It is impossible. 

The cars coming the other way are causing the car behind a delay, if they were not there, the car could overtake. So again, not the cyclists fault. Drivers fault for not being able to pass due to other drivers that should be at work, not driving around. I say this with all seriousness. Can you picture it? a road, at 1pm on a tuesday afternoon. You drive on it. You have a day off. Yay. Normally you work at this time but you have time to visit a shop. Off you go. Ok, now you can't pass because of an oncoming car. Ok, thats undertstanable, they must have a day off too. Hang on, now ANOTHER CAR? how odd, a third person in the exact same piece of road, at the exact moment you were going to pass these cyclists. Try again. Nope, now yet another car is coming at you, AND ANOTHER, AND ANOTHER!  that makes zero sense. Even if you factor in that people work different hours, different shifts, it cannot be possible for every single driver, to be in exactly the same spot, at the same exact moment. That rate of oncoming traffic would imply that 400 cars an hour, just happen to be being used on that one section of road. If that were true, then do all those people work different shifts and hours? ok, then surely some of those shift workers would be at home at one to two pm, before going to work? how come the people who start at 5pm and work in cafes until gone midnight are also driving on the exact same road as the camera car? and the car behind them? it doesnt add up. Thats just ONE road. You would expect there to be loads of gaps at that time. Not a constant stream of cars coming at you, and following you. Thats the problem. I don't understand it. If it was say 4pm or 8am, then yes, because most people are commuting near those times. But its the same all throughout the day, on every road in the country. At least, it was, before ''lockdown''.  Can anyone explain this phenonemon to me?

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mdavidford replied to Gary's bike channel | 4 years ago
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Well presumably they didn't send in the footage of all the periods when there weren't cars coming the other way every few seconds, because it didn't reinforce their perception that cyclists are 'holding up traffic' (as opposed to being traffic).

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brooksby replied to Gary's bike channel | 4 years ago
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I'm sure it wasn't the intention, but that Cambridge News article perfectly illustrates the argument about it not mattering if cyclists are side-by-side.

In none of those situations could the following motor vehicle overtake safely and properly without crossing into the other lane (and in the narrow street with cars parked both sides, they just couldn't pass at all).

And so - if they have to do cross into the other lane - what difference does it make if the cyclists are side-by-side?

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