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Cyclist swore at me on zebra crossing - must be the heat?
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Coming home today, I crossed a main road. Traffic was slow moving, and I got to a zebra crossing just as someone else was 3/4 across it ahead of me so I sped up to cross too. A cyclist came up to the crossing but didn't even bother breaking, and swerved around me. She then said "JC, mate" as she rolled past to which I said "You're supposed to stop". At this point she told me to....depart while fornicating.
Do you think that she was short tempered due to the heat? It's pretty hot out there. Or did I do something I shouldn't have done by trying to cross just as someone else was almost across?
Do you think that she was short tempered due to the heat? It's pretty hot out there. Or did I do something I shouldn't have done by trying to cross just as someone else was almost across?
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Nah she just needs to learn what zebra crossings are for.
I thought, I hope he's having more luck than me.
Maybe. Just makes it worse given she wasn't paying attention to cycling if she was so focused on my face.
Somehow I don't think this is a factor most people would consider relevant.
forgot to realize that cyclists jump red lights all the time
No, she should definitely have stopped, as should any other vehicle, once your foot is on the crossing.
Funnily enough I had a similar experience last night in the ASDA car park, but from a car, which rudely decided not to stop just as I was standing at the zebra crossing, waiting to cross.
You're still supposed to check that the crossing is clear though. Unless you're actually on the crossing itself vehicles aren't legally obliged to stop for you. Zebra crossings aren't legally enforceable in the way that traffic lights are.
This crossing is almost directly outside a sweetshop and it is only a matter of time before someone is run over.
missed your chance
Will never forget the moron who was weaving shakily through a whole horde of us one Friday evening. Lights were at red for the traffic. Green man was showing. I should have knocked the stupid twit off his bike.
Edited to add I was one of the pedestrians trying to cross the road at this point.
Or is it just one more of these interminable 'lets have a go at cyclists' threads that DS:GD is famous for?
No just another hypocritical cyclist with a false sense of entitlement, loads of them out there.
I don't get this. I, alike you, will take my chances on a clear (ish) road rather than stand around at traffic lights slowing down or stopping traffic so that I may cross the road. If there's an opening, I'll take it - we're actually doing drivers a favour.
Not all of them do. Quit stereotyping. Thanks.
well i would certainly have looked before setting foot on it:o
If all you have to share with us on here is about a typo, then all I can say to you is thanks for pointing it out to me.
You are free to decide what you want about thread topics but one thing you have absolutely no control over is the OPs intention behind a thread no matter how you might like to frame it yourself. I don't know if you're pro or anti cyclist or have no view overall, but I can say this isn't an anti cyclist thread. If a car driver had done the same I think I'd have made this post.
No she was being an inconsiderate bitch
But without being there, it's impossible for anyone else but you to know, all it's going to generate is a load more of the usual comments from pro cyclists and anti cyclists and ne'er the twain shall meet. But if forced to answer, I would answer as follows:
It depends. But in your position, I would probably have waited for the cyclist to pass before crossing.
Looks like I need a refresher on the rules myself then! I didn't realise all vehicles are not obliged to stop at a zebra crossing.
I always do check before I cross when it's free flowing traffic - I know many vehicles wouldn't stop or might not see you - so why take the chance? I thought it was okay in this instance given the traffic was moving so slowly. There was about a car's space beyond the zebra crossing for the car to move into.