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Re: Another crash into a building by a pavement motorist.

Von: Tony Dragon (tony.dragon@btinternet.com) [Profil]
Datum: 10.11.2009 11:10
Message-ID: <6tSdnbaybIGcoWTXnZ2dnUVZ8j9i4p2d@bt.com>
Newsgroup: uk.legal uk.rec.cycling
mileburner wrote:
> "Doug" <jagmad@riseup.net> wrote in message
> news:66bfa29c-ce7c-409f-af65-b42c8c26df10@v30g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>
>> Its nothing to do with respect, a common fallacy. Its to do with
>> asserting one's rights in the face of intimidatory lethal competition.
>
> Problem is, that drivers exercise the law of the jungle. If you try to
> counteract that with intimidation all you get is a perpetual war, (and you
> don't gain many allies in the process). What you do is give cyclists a Bad
> Name, just like the lawbreaking pavement cyclists and RLJers do.
>
> If cyclists want drivers to clean up their act, they need to be whiter than
> white themselves.
>
> CM is *not* whiter than white.
>
>

So if we all start treating other road users with respect, then problem
solved.

Trouble is it will take a long time, but you have to start somewhere.

And as you say CM is not the place to start.

--

Tony Dragon

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