#66

i like when someone slows for you and maybe they are gesturing for you to cross the road, but because they’re in a car and maybe you can’t see them, you can’t see them gesturing and you’re thinking “why’s this idiot slowing down ffs?” and then you realise they want you to cross but then it irks me even more because I CAN’T SEE YOU GESTURING BECAUSE YOU’RE INSIDE A CAR

#67

Oh and if you DARE let someone go in this manner whilst i’m driving behind you, I will beep and I will get rage and shout “THIS IS NOT A CROSSING WHY ARE YOU LETTING THEM GO!!!”

#68

YESSSS.
And I’m all for a flash of the lights right but fucking flash when you’re far away, don’t drive up to me, slow down, then stop, then flash the lights.

ffs i’m so angry right now just thinking about this

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#69

Yeah, this irks me too.

I cycle to and from work every day and because I’m on my way to campus there’s always a large contingent of us at the lights. We have a cycle box in front of the cars and a cycling priority light and yet there’s always a prick who’ll ride through the red. It’s nowhere near as irking as the watching arseholes weaving through pedestrians on the zebras on campus though.

#70

How will driverless cars cope with zebra crossings? Bet you none of the pricks at apple have thought about that yet.

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#71

I’ve started giving a wave of thanks when a driver passes the Penge Peloton without being a dick. Sometimes I’ve got a flash of lights as a thanks back, or a nod or a thumbs up. It’s nice.

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#72

Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone was great.

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#73

If I’m driving and a cyclist waves me past, I’ll always flash my hazards back at them out of thanks/solidarity. This is also now the cycling thread

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#74

what did you say back to them?

#75

‘bloody hell, a talking zebra!’

#77

a classic of the genre

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#78

© ?

#79

If they don’t detect a wave from the pedestrian it’s out with the gatling guns, ED-209 style. “YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS TO SHOW GRATITUDE.”

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#80

A couple of years ago I just stopped walking in front of a cyclist who refused to even stop peddling to make a token effort to slow or divert direction to pass at a distance on a zebra (he’d have passed within about a meter if I’d carried on). He went ballistic at me for “being blind” and not seeing him coming or something. Told him to fuck off, I had right of way and he’d have done a lot of damage had it been a kid he’d gone into.

Anecdotally, I’d say most cyclists I’ve encountered in the last year or two have been much better about zebras than they used to be, and I don’t mind too much if someone slows and freewheels through while someone’s crossing a different lane or something.

#81

I am very rarely wound up as a driver or pedestrian - I’ll often let people out, cross or whatever.

The only time I ever get irked is if I let another driver out and they don’t acknowledge it. Pedestrians are at risk, so while it’s appreciated I don’t get annoyed by it and wouldn’t expect them to run across the road or anything.

Cyclists that don’t obey the basic rules of human decency (so - all cyclists) do boil my piss a little. Like when they go through reds or over zebra crossings/weave through people crossing just because they don’t want to have to brake/stop and then pull away again.

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#82

So annoying (as a cyclist/non-parent) when you’re waiting at a red light and another cyclist just comes up beside you, mounts the curb then drops back in infront of the light, like stop giving everyone a reason to hate cyclists you melt

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#83

:smiley:

my fave is when a load of cyclists* stop at a zebra / red light and then another just comes idly through not even looking. i almost want them to get swiped to teach them a lesson.

*i say cyclists, obv yr dece club cyclist wouldn’t dream of running a red or not stopping at a crossing. there’s a v specific group of folk who just think the rules of the road don’t apply to them, whether a ped or on a bike or in a car.

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#85

Think you become better at this sort of stuff if you do the other things regularly too. Like the only person I ride regularly with who does the cunty cyclist stuff is also the only one who doesn’t drive.

#86

One wave of thanks at a crossing = one respect

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#88

Same way as every other aspect of driving. Kill a few people, adjust the software, release a new update.