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- From: d_smith@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Dylan Smith)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Bicycle riders
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.143446.1800@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:34:46 GMT
- References: <Bxz2s1.3sE@exnet.co.uk> <1992Nov20.100343.2315@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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- In article <1992Nov20.100343.2315@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
- >In article <Bxz2s1.3sE@exnet.co.uk>, s0rah@exnet.co.uk (R A Hollands) writes:
- >|> Of late it seems to me that people on bikes have started to believe
- >|> they're pedestrians. They ride past me on the pavement and they don't
- >|> have lights at night.
- >
- >And they cross lights at red, and, and, and... The thing that really
- >pissed me off recently was a cyclist who jumped the red as I was
- >setting out to cross the road on the cycle path, and complained at me
- >for getting in her way.
-
- I've actually been run over by a cyclist with no lights riding on the
- pavement at night. Fortunately, I was unhurt and the cyclist fell off.
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