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    lobstarr... first of all,

    secondly, I've never simply shot through a red light... and only couriers actually do. but we do sometimes go through them very carefully, when it's completely safe to do so.

    The fact is, we are not cars and we are not pedestrians.

    We don't have the ability to just charge into the middle lane of a busy double lane road, slow down stopping all traffic so that we can wait for a gap in the oncoming traffic. Be honest... do you really think you'd sit patiently behind me without hooting or coming 2cm behind me and revving like mad?? That's just one of thousands of examples I can thing of where we get bullied off the road. Nor do we have the ability to climb stairs or use sidewalks etc. like a pedestrian.

    We are in the middle, a little bit of both. Soft and squishy like a pedestrian, and relatively speedy like a car. Fuck what the law says, until I get the same actual rights as a vehicle, I'll cycle half pedestrian, half vehicle.

    Try it, just once, I dare you. And no I don't mean piss along to your boyfriend's house round the suburban corner on a bmx. I mean real commuter cycling. Then come back and get all high and mighty

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    • Just out of interest dude, have you ever had cycle training?rascuache
    • Option A, the cyclist should be infront of the car turning left. Same for option B.Jimbo82
    • If waiting at lights obviouslyJimbo82
    • Jimbo, assuming there are ASLs at every junction? Not always the case. You don't always need to be at the front, either...rascuache
    • Safest place though, even if there isn't an ASL, rather than being in the blind spot like the diagram.Jimbo82
    • It's all about being seen as a cyclist, get up to the front so you know he knows your thereJimbo82
    • it might be the safest place if the layout of the junction is sympathetic, though technically once you've crossed the white line you've jumped the lights...rascuache
    • ...line, you've jumped the lights. My point was that you don't need to be at the front.rascuache
    • yes it's safer than the blind spot, but not necessarily safer than being in the middle of the lane a few cars backrascuache
    • where traffic is slower, you have more time to move away from the lights, then you can move to the left to allow traffic to pass
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    • if there is and asl I use it, but 99% of the time, it's filled with cars/scootersProjectile
    • I've cycled to work/school since age 8.... what other training is there, a course?Projectile
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      Just teaches road positioning and ting. Lot of people in london seem to go for it.      rascuache
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