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Video: Melbourne cyclist does U-turn across three lanes of oncoming trafficMelbourne cyclist (Dave Candy via Facebook).jpg

Video: Melbourne cyclist does U-turn across three lanes of oncoming traffic

Bold cyclist hugely confident of his high visibility
by Alex Bowden
Wed, Sep 06, 2017 11:47
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A video uploaded to the Dash Cam Owners Australia Facebook page shows a cyclist riding into oncoming rush hour traffic on Melbourne’s Montague Street before veering across three busy lanes to do a U-turn.

9 News reports that the incident occurred on Monday at 4.46pm. You can watch the video here.

December 2016 Google StreetView images reveal a faded painted cycle lane where the cyclist ends up.

Montague Street bike lane (via StreetView).jpg

It is one hell of a junction to be navigating by bike though, even if he was most likely just crossing the road rather than riding against the flow of traffic for any length of time.

Perhaps he was of the opinion that his hi-vis jacket rendered him somehow invincible.

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antigee | 7 years ago
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whoops false accusation on recycled news - guess the recent comments must have pushed it back to the top of news  ... guess best forgotten 

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antigee | 7 years ago
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both channel 9 and road cc recycling cycling old news?

http://road.cc/content/news/228864-video-melbourne-cyclist-does-u-turn-a...   a story dated Sept 6 2017 

....thought I'd seen it before  and wasn't really that interesting then - regularly drive thru that junction - well when i say drive I mean queue it might not be obvious in the video but there is a set of traffic lights only a few metres further down the road and some complex lane swopping means speeds are low 

 

 

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Spacer replied to antigee | 7 years ago
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antigee wrote:

both channel 9 and road cc recycling cycling old news?

http://road.cc/content/news/228864-video-melbourne-cyclist-does-u-turn-a...   a story dated Sept 6 2017 

....thought I'd seen it before  and wasn't really that interesting then - regularly drive thru that junction - well when i say drive I mean queue it might not be obvious in the video but there is a set of traffic lights only a few metres further down the road and some complex lane swopping means speeds are low 

 

 

Um, this story is dated Sept 6 2017... and the link you've put is to this story. 

You've seen it before because you've clicked on the same story twice. 

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janusz0 | 7 years ago
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I agree, from the editing,  that the video seems to be mostly about the dashcam owner's musical taste.  Let's just tick off the cyclist who didn't signal before leaving the bike lane.  Full marks to the drivers who let the cyclist cross. 

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don simon fbpe | 7 years ago
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Not all drivers are shit.

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zanf | 7 years ago
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Do people really listen to music like that?

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Leviathan | 7 years ago
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Boring, try harder Buzzf... I mean Road.cc.

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