Pavement death cyclist sentenced

@cas wrote:

@ubermik wrote:

@cas wrote:

@ubermik wrote:

@cas wrote:

Uber,,,,,,,,the pavement isn’t the place for ‘adult’ cyclists. Iv’e no problem with children cycling on the pavement, it’s far safer for them, but adults are not, and should not, be allowed to ride them on either the pavement or pedestrian walkways, they really are old enough to know better.

Another pet hate of mine is when they cycle, on the pavement, to the pelican crossing, press the button for the lights to change and then cycle across!!! It’s ignorance on a huge scale. :twisted:

I totally disagree

Adult cyclists are on the whole far more likely to manoevre safely around pedestrians than kids anyway for one. Infact with current levels of child behaviour and their near untouchable status in the eyes of the law kids are actually far more likely to hit people just for the heck of it

Also, the moement cyclists start paying road tax, buying insurance and having to pass a test then, and only then SHOULD they belong on the road

As for being “on the path”, they wouldnt be, their cycle paths would be, so if they stay in them and you stay on your pedestrian part of the path whats yer problem?

I wouldn’t have a problem if they were in and STAYED IN!! their cycle paths. As for them being far more likely to ”manoevre safely around pedestrians”,,,,,iv’e yet to see it.

I wouldn’t have had a problem on Tuesday either, had the ‘cyclist’ who almost landed in the buggy containing my freinds little girl apologised,,,,,,he merely gave me a mouthful of abuse like it was my fault for being in his bloody way in the first place!

Well if you didnt see him coming maybe it was your fault, or 50% of it at least, after all cyclists are hardly invisible nor tiny, and the more speed something has the harder minute adjustents to direction become

So for the same reason I wouldnt walk infront of a container lorry and just “expect” them to swerve around me perhaps its time pedestrians also stopped walking around as tho theyre in some hallucinagenic daydream and started to pay attention to their surroundings too for a change

By the same token,,,,,,,i was in the shopping PEDESTRIAN precinct,,,,,so I really shouldn’t have been having to look out for rogue cyclists, because they shouldn’t be riding their cycles through pedestrian precincts in the first place,,,,,,, :twisted:

Well I’m often on the MOTORISTS road and have to avoid daydreaming ditzy pedestrians who just walk out whilst chatting on a mobile or who just arent paying any attention at all, and as I’m driving a car and threrefore already have far more to focus my attention on than a near stationary pedestrian and STILL manage to be aware of my surroundings its hardly like its an unreasonable or impossible expectation for a pedestrian in any setting to be aware of their surroundings really

And just because he SHOULDNT have been there doesnt mean he “couldnt” be there as you found out, so rather than walking around in dipsy lala land where the only cognition is of things that “should” be the case maybe remembering the fact you dont live in cloud cuckoo land but in reality where things other than what “should” be the case ARE the case eh?

After all, a buggy can be just as easily and even more effectively splodged flat by a cripple in a cripple scooter, someone pushing a trolley of goods for a store thats got away from it, someone pushing a shopping trolley, pedestrians running (or as most SEEM to do, just not paying attention to their surroundings either or infact just another ditzy daydreamer ALSO pushing another buggy

After all, its not like you have to be aware and on the look out for each thing individually is it? Just aware full stop.

Infact, re the roadkill person this thread is about (pathkill?) I would bet good money THEY would have been more vigilant, aware and careful had they been on the road rather than the footpath, so had they been equally aware irrespective then they might still be alive today