Doug wrote:
> On 9 Sep, 16:21, s...@
ssrl.org.uk (Sam Nelson) wrote:
>> In article
k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> Doug riseup.net> writes:>>> On 8 Sep, 21:10, " cupra"
gmail.com> wrote:>>> Also, if you look closely you will see that the driver is going
>>> through on amber. In short the bus was travelling too fast.
>> The light doesn't change to amber until after the front of the bus passes
>> the Stop line.
>>
> I have to disagree with you. It changes just before the bus is on the
> stop line.
You would disagree with anybody, or is it your eyesight that is bad?
Also, why is the bus intruding on the cycle lane?
Given the road layout I'd like to know how he could do otherwise.
>> The kid leapt over a barrier deliberately placed to protect
>> pedestrians
>>
> Or, deliberately placed to prevent pedestrians from using a public
> road, which has been allowed to become almost completely monopolised
> by motorised vehicles.
So you disagree with safety then, what a surprise.
>> using a perfectly well-placed light-controlled crossing.
>> That's the main road to Edinburgh he's just jumped out into without paying
>> a blind bit of attention. You'll note from the video clip that there are
>> several other idiots hanging around the wrong side of the barrier, in the
>> `cycle lane'. Where they are, they'd be causing obstruction to cyclists.
>> Well, unless the cyclists are on the pavement, I guess.
>>
> You have a point about obstructing cyclists but so was the bus with
> its wheels over the white line.
Imagine how many people would be all over the road without the barriers.
>
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Well as usual you do not see what is in front of you, safety measures
are something you disapprove of, and unless I have missed it you have
not commented about the child or the bus driver.
So nothing new then.
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