I once had one drive through a red light, and then stop on, the pelican crossing I was trying to use, then wave his arms at me as if to ask why I was trying to cross the road in front of me.
Disabled passengers might wish to get on where there's a bus lane too! In any case, both taxis and private hire vehicles are allowed to pick up and set down in bus lanes, in London at any rate. If you just wish to exclude taxis from bus lanes full stop, say so, and I might even agree with you!
On the latter point, there's a controlled T-junction on the A629 near Huddersfield, with traffic joining from a minor road. If you're coming down the minor road there's a sensor that detects approaching traffic and starts the sequence (which by default shows green for the A-road and red for the joining minor road). I've never cycled down this side road, but it wouldn't surprise me if a cyclist, or even a motorcyclist, wasn't large enough to trigger the sensor.Definitely!
I also want to ban crossings that, after you press the button, sometimes work but other times stop working. As if you hadn't pressed the button at all, which is very frustrating. I have a frequently used crossing like this on my way to the railway station, drives me mad when it happens. Thing is, it doesn't always go like that and often it's just fine!
As for my previous thing about non-cyclist-friendly traffic lights, I have WAY too many of them in Hereford. There's even one that doesn't change for motorcyclists!
It beats just blocking the pavement and expecting people to walk in the road in the hope that they don't get run over
Expanding the theme slightly, can we ban anyone incompetent (which seems to be nearly everyone!) from going anywhere near anything to do with roads, be it temporary traffic management, design of new junctions etc?
Or indeed some utility company digging up the road a week or two after highways have had it extensively resurfaced.
Definitely. Permanent traffic management as well.
Very irritating!Or indeed some utility company digging up the road a week or two after highways have had it extensively resurfaced.
As well as traffic light sequencing which seems to be designed to cause congestion (primarily for road vehicles, but also pedestrians). It's not difficult to sequence nearby traffic lights so that traffic flows through steadily; it's also better for the environment instead of stop-start traffic.
Try being disabled, then you might not make such a trite remark! You haven't suddenly become (more) disabled during the course of your journey. A transaction may or may not need to take place, as it will with any other passenger, and I'd say I'm quicker at paying than the average person, but then I'm not faffing around waving my phone at things.
Try being disabled, then you might not make such a trite remark! You haven't suddenly become (more) disabled during the course of your journey. A transaction may or may not need to take place, as it will with any other passenger, and I'd say I'm quicker at paying than the average person, but then I'm not faffing around waving my phone at things.
Or indeed some utility company digging up the road a week or two after highways have had it extensively resurfaced.
No, because then they'll use it as excuse to withdraw Travelcards altogether.
Likewise phenomena, bacteria, cherubim, seraphim, etc. etc.
And they are incorrect, so raising a complaint is practically obligatory if one is a raving grammar pedant (as am I)
When the "precious, professorial pedants" are obliged to keep quiet, and eventually take refuge in caves, then grammar, and, by extension, civilisation as we know it, will end forever.
Likewise phenomena, bacteria, cherubim, seraphim, etc. etc.
And they are incorrect, so raising a complaint is practically obligatory if one is a raving grammar pedant (as am I)
When the "precious, professorial pedants" are obliged to keep quiet, and eventually take refuge in caves, then grammar, and, by extension, civilisation as we know it, will end forever.
(With apologies to Lynne Truss!)
. (I try not to take much notice of current affairs.)
She's the new Prime Minister, isn't she? Didn't know that grammar was a particular hobby-horse of hers
