Traffic "calming"
Jul. 9th, 2007 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackOn Friday I was cycling up the top of Campkin road, and passing the "road narrowed" zebra crossing, when I found a white van heading straight for me. Fortunately, we could both stop, and I squeezed off onto the pavement and all was fine.
The thing is, me being obviously in the wrong, would have been very annoying. Him been obviously in the wrong, would also have been very annoying. But as he passed, he called out of the window. It was either "My god, I'm sorry, mate!" or "Can't you fucking read, mate?" but I can't tell which, and being left not knowing whether to be sympathetic or angry with him was VERY VERY annoying.
(Give way markings and a sign saying "give way to oncoming traffic" in that direction, and not in this direction, incline me to the view that he should have stopped.)
The thing is, me being obviously in the wrong, would have been very annoying. Him been obviously in the wrong, would also have been very annoying. But as he passed, he called out of the window. It was either "My god, I'm sorry, mate!" or "Can't you fucking read, mate?" but I can't tell which, and being left not knowing whether to be sympathetic or angry with him was VERY VERY annoying.
(Give way markings and a sign saying "give way to oncoming traffic" in that direction, and not in this direction, incline me to the view that he should have stopped.)