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[Closed] Hants cyclists (predominately roadies / commuters)

 DT78
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Scheme from Hants police to protect vulnerable road users from harm.... great idea so please support it with any footage you may capture of near misses / poor driving - the more it is used I imagine the more of a success it will be seen as and hopefully the roads will get that bit safer.

https://hants-snap-police.egressforms.com/


 
Posted : 25/11/2019 4:55 pm
 DezB
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Cool, somewhere to report this van hitting my hand as I was signalling!
(contains swears ๐Ÿ˜€ )

(damn, too late, has to be within 7 days)


 
Posted : 25/11/2019 5:05 pm
 DT78
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I'd submit it anyway you never know, he might have had several reports.

I wish I'd had a camera on Friday rush hour when I witnesses a u drive scaffolding flatbed being an idiot on a filter and deciding to mount the separate cycle path next to the road and drive along it half on the road / half on the cycle path. luckily no injuries


 
Posted : 25/11/2019 5:53 pm
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bit of a highjack but did anyone see this and click after the OP's film ended?

How can you possibly argue that you're in the right doing something like that, late or not?

Why do cabbies hate cyclists so much that they'll blame the cyclist in this situation even when it's obvs the car driver driving the wrong way down the street at a junction?


 
Posted : 26/11/2019 9:04 pm
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Southampton's police force approach to Operation Close Pass was a joke, it barely lasted three weeks, the city is overrun with people who are obsessed with using personal cars to travel short distances, on a core road layout that is highly restricted due to the city's proximity to an estruary and several rivers.

I'm so glad I found a better way to escape Shirley Rd when my shifts finish, there are so many more cars than when I started ten years ago... It needs several traffic light sets for side roads and Villers is going to be "fun" when the new Lidl opens soon.


 
Posted : 26/11/2019 9:26 pm
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I can't help thinking that the new bike route out of the city to Redbridge flyover is a little poorly thought out. It seems to be on the wrong side of the parallel feeder road - if it was on the east side there would be few times that cars needed to cross the cycle lane as they've closed a num her of access/ exits onto the main road. In the location that it is in every vehicle coming into or out of any number of small turnings into the mass of trading estates/ retail units along that road needs to cross the cycle route. It seems daft to me (I am not a transport planner).


 
Posted : 27/11/2019 7:52 pm
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I think that the larger issue is that transport planners are not cyclists.


 
Posted : 27/11/2019 8:16 pm