You're hereby invited to a new(ish) cycling forum:
http://www.freewheelingforum.com/index.php

Noncyclists are welcome - we've created a board where everyone can
safely mingle.

wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 7 Dec 2004:

You're hereby invited to a new(ish) cycling forum:
http://www.freewheelingforum.com/index.php

Noncyclists are welcome - we've created a board where everyone can
safely mingle.

You mean, without being nearly run over by someone who doesn't realise
that traffic lights apply to cyclists, too?
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 28 November 2004

Mrs Redboots wrote the following in:


wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 7 Dec 2004:

You're hereby invited to a new(ish) cycling forum:
http://www.freewheelingforum.com/index.php

Noncyclists are welcome - we've created a board where everyone can
safely mingle.

You mean, without being nearly run over by someone who doesn't
realise that traffic lights apply to cyclists, too?

When you encounter drivers do you accuse them all of driving
recklessly?

--
message by Robin May. That egotism was getting old.

Americans who voted for Bush: you ****ed up.

http://robinmay.fotopic.net

Robin May wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 7 Dec 2004:

Mrs Redboots wrote the following in:


wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 7 Dec 2004:

You're hereby invited to a new(ish) cycling forum:
http://www.freewheelingforum.com/index.php

Noncyclists are welcome - we've created a board where everyone can
safely mingle.

You mean, without being nearly run over by someone who doesn't
realise that traffic lights apply to cyclists, too?

When you encounter drivers do you accuse them all of driving
recklessly?

If they run through red traffic lights and pass within inches of
pedestrians whose turn it is to cross, then yes!
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 28 November 2004

Mrs Redboots typed


If they run through red traffic lights and pass within inches of
pedestrians whose turn it is to cross, then yes!

I have reported a 114 bus for doing just that!

It's NOT just cyclists. It's wrong whoever does it. Cyclists seldom kill
though.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Mrs Redboots wrote the following in:


If they run through red traffic lights and pass within inches of
pedestrians whose turn it is to cross, then yes!

Congratulations on totally missing the point.

--
message by Robin May. That egotism was getting old.

Americans who voted for Bush: you ****ed up.

http://robinmay.fotopic.net

Robin May wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 7 Dec 2004:

Mrs Redboots wrote the following in:


If they run through red traffic lights and pass within inches of
pedestrians whose turn it is to cross, then yes!

Congratulations on totally missing the point.

No, it's you who missed the point - do feel free to point out where I
accused all cyclists of poor Highway code observance? What I actually
said, if you remember, was:

(In reply to: "we've created a board where everyone can safely mingle.")
"You mean, without being nearly run over by someone who doesn't realise
that traffic lights apply to cyclists, too?"

Now, how you can read into this that I think *all* cyclists don't
realise this is quite beyond me.
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 28 November 2004

Huge wrote:
Helen Deborah Vecht writes:
Mrs Redboots typed


If they run through red traffic lights and pass within inches of
pedestrians whose turn it is to cross, then yes!

I have reported a 114 bus for doing just that!

It's NOT just cyclists. It's wrong whoever does it. Cyclists seldom
kill
though.

Yeah, only 2 or 3 a year. And they don't matter, they're only
pedestrians,
after all.


Indeed. When we get on our bikes we are the Grim Reaper's minions. Just
last week I dispatched a family of six on their way to the Raphael
exhibit at the National Gallery. I had to reverse to finish off a few
of them. The event is oversubscribed anyway.

Mrs Redboots wrote:

(In reply to: "we've created a board where everyone can safely
mingle.") "You mean, without being nearly run over by someone who
doesn't realise that traffic lights apply to cyclists, too?"

Now, how you can read into this that I think *all* cyclists don't
realise this is quite beyond me.

It doesn't necessarily imply that you think ANY cyclists don't realise
this... It just suggests that *some* people don't realise that traffic
lights apply to cyclists - those people may not be cyclists themselves ;-)

"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
...
Now, how you can read into this that I think *all* cyclists
don't realise this is quite beyond me.

Point missed or otherwise, one gets the impression that your judgement might
be being clouded by an anti-cycling bias. I hope this is not the case.