an obese tax might actually be a good ideaWould be so funny, we've calculated you as obese so you need to pay 500 a year tax, or drove a car that's free (tax wise).
road rule changes 2022
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Today I was driving back from the supermarket at around 25mph in 30mph zone. A cyclist was at a pedestrian crossing (pelican) and proceeded to start to cross as I was approaching when the light was green. I really was not far off having a collision.
He shouted at me that he has right of way. (I am not sure why a cyclist was on the pavement, but I'll skip over that one).
Normally I don't share car journey stories as 'great story bro', however if this is what the new highway code means then I am genuinely concerned for said cyclists life expectancy.
Why on earth would someone pull out in front of moving traffic when there is a pedestrian crossing with a button to press. Charles Darwin springs to mind.
He shouted at me that he has right of way. (I am not sure why a cyclist was on the pavement, but I'll skip over that one).
Normally I don't share car journey stories as 'great story bro', however if this is what the new highway code means then I am genuinely concerned for said cyclists life expectancy.
Why on earth would someone pull out in front of moving traffic when there is a pedestrian crossing with a button to press. Charles Darwin springs to mind.
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He will not be long for this world with behavior like that. I checked online, it is not a cycle path.
But that's the confusion isnt it? Ive seen pedestestions now cross on red man at junctions because under the new rules they believe they now have right of way and the car should stop and not wait for a red light.
I cross all the time when I have a red light on a pelican crossing, I always have done and always will. I just do it when there isn’t any car coming.
Sometimes people makes mistakes or just don’t care because your insurance may pay out if you don’t stop in time as they are the vulnerable road user.
What I am trying to say is sometimes 1+1 isn’t two or correlation isn’t causation.
I've always seen people doing this. There are no jaywalking laws in the UK. If they step out and give you no time to react you won't get the blame though.
I am really temped to fit a super loud horn these days. People wake up and move very quickly when you scare the **** out of them
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Surely the cyclist was incorrect if he was crossing the road you were on (and not on a road you were turning into), as far as I understand it, cars still have the priority when proceeding straight ahead, and anybody waiting to cross still has to wait. If they are crossing on a road you are turning into, then the pedestrian/cyclist has the priority.
That's correct. It's only on side roads.
Clearly the cyclist in concern has a chip on their shoulder and doesn't understand the new rules.
I think this is the biggest danger in the changes, the misunderstanding it can cause.......was much more logical before, vehicle coming, you wait, simples.
I'll certainly be telling my kids to follow the old rules.
Went on a bike ride this morning and got to say, most drivers gave a decent amount of space when overtaking. Much better than it was, so looks like plenty of people have taken notice of the changes, makes for a much more pleasant and safer experience. Still got the odd white van man or a **** in a diesel VAG close passing but ***** are hardly change a habit of a lifetime.
Also was at a junction whilst walking my dog waiting to cross and both going out and coming home, cars stopped and let me cross. More people seem to have taken it onboard than I expected.
Also was at a junction whilst walking my dog waiting to cross and both going out and coming home, cars stopped and let me cross. More people seem to have taken it onboard than I expected.
Still not convinced by some of these changes now a few days have passed - more people trying to use them than I expected but see quite a few instances where even when everyone tries to adhere to them it results in a bit of an awkward dance of everyone not quite on the same page resulting in near misses or people stopped in bad positions.
EDIT: As before some of that is because of road layouts which are pants on head or just pointless and confusing.
EDIT: As before some of that is because of road layouts which are pants on head or just pointless and confusing.
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I got to test my right of way by walking in the middle of a dual carriageway yesterday and didn't get run over. The experiment was brought to us by cityfibre who closed the pavement with the pedestrian management plan being 'you need to cross to the other side (of a dual carriageway)'. 
I got to test my right of way by walking in the middle of a dual carriageway yesterday and didn't get run over. The experiment was brought to us by cityfibre who closed the pavement with the pedestrian management plan being 'you need to cross to the other side (of a dual carriageway)'.
The planning for roadworks, etc. seems to be getting worse and worse.
I feel like I've noticed a couple of times now where a car has slowed and given way to me as a pedestrian/jogger as I come to a junction to cross. As others have said, either I've just come across very polite drivers recently (and it definitely has happened before these changes, so it's not totally new) or more people have heard about the changes than I would have thought...
Good citizen.
haven't really noticed any changes so far, walking to the shops there's been no cars stopping to let me go when crossing away from lights or on junctions. Tbh it's probably only a small percentage of the population knows anything about these changes unless they start blasting out via news and press