Re:Interview with GoCardless CEO Hiroki Takeuchi after paral...
by martinald on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @08:53AM
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Really? On my walk to work from the station in central London, I probably see 20-100 cyclists running red lights, each time. I've had upteen near misses with cyclists because of this (crossing the road). Much rarer with cars imo.
Re:Interview with GoCardless CEO Hiroki Takeuchi after paral...
by zimpenfish on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:35AM
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I walk 15-20 minutes from a station in Central London to work and whilst I might see a handful of cyclists jumping the lights, I pretty much always see more vehicles doing similar or worse.
To add to this anecdata, I see more vehicles breaking the rules than cyclists -but- even if it were 10:1 cyclists:vehicles, one of them is at least a ton of metal at high speed and therefore capable of doing many orders of magnitude more damage.
> this is probably where the negative opinions of cyclists comes from
People are inured to cars and tend to turn a blind eye to their minor indiscretions (perhaps because they happen at a distance - cyclists are less common, out of most people's experience, and much closer - thus more visible indiscretions.)