Was it a pedestrian crossing or a shared ped/bike crossing?

Was he shouting at his own reflection in shop windows?

What puzzles me is, why do people think it’s okay to comments to cyclists? Would they stick their oar in if it was a pedestrian or car driver? Something about cycling seems to attract uninvited comment.

Don’t be a Dick rule applies in the absence of anyone with the ability to fine you. I think your pedestrian may fall foul of that.

EDIT: Snap!

And you can bet that if he was in a car behind you as you fought across three lanes of traffic to turn right, he would be frothing about that, too.

Either way right or wrong ..I think if anyone was having a go at me in the middle of a crossing I would tell him to get in touch with himself ..the arrogant arsehole

Your only crime is letting him live

My son was told off for crossing a dual carriageway on his bike using the pedestrian crossing. Going to school, in his uniform. On a bike. Across a busy dual carriageway. On his bike. Going to school.
I definitely would have killed the person who did this if I’d known who it was. Killed them dead. Death would actually be too good for them. A few years of torture first maybe.

It works both ways guys, if as a group ‘we’ want to be taken seriously and not just seen as road tax avoiding, congestion causing menaces (i believe that’s the common misconception among anti cycling mouth breathers)…then we have to ride to a decent standard, jumping red lights is a no no despite what people think…just because you think it only affects you if it goes wrong is irrelevant, I used to ride my motorbike like a ****, if I got it wrong nobody but me paid the price but that’s not how the public and the law see it.

Good news if traffic wardens and coppers start dishing out fines to nob’ead cyclists.

Still time to edit, deviant. 😆

Point still stands, though.

Point still stands, though 😉

In this case however I agree the pedestrian was more in the wrong 😛

There is no collective repsonsibility so PLEASE stop propogating that bullshit.

+1

Zombies dont need a reason to hate, they just hate.

To the best of my knowledge you can’t get a fine for riding across the carriageway. Pedal cycles are freely allowed on it.

You can, however, be fined for cycling on a footway, so the legal issue with riding across a crossing is dependent on what’s either side of it: if it’s footway, it’s illegal to ride on, but if it’s a shared foot-/cyclepath then it’s legal.

The Highway Code is not law: you can’t be fined for contravening its rules. So this…

…is wrong. The crossing is not a footway, it is part of the carriageway.

The “don’t be a dick” rule applies in up to three ways here, depending on the actual context:

1. Don’t be a dick by cycling in a way which poses risk to others.
2. Don’t be a dick by making up things about £30 fines to have a go at people who aren’t posing a risk to others.
3. Most importantly of all, don’t be a dick by creating crap infrastructure where people on bikes face few pragmatic choices other than to use pedestrian routes (or to never bother taking a bike out of the house) or where small gaps in fragmented cycling infrastructure cause inevitable conflicts such as this.

As for this…

…fetch me these:

There’s no “also” about it. There is actually a law (that really **** one that can **** off) about dawdling on a crossing, but there isn’t one about riding a pedal cycle on a crossing.

Ironically, if you remember the viral video of the pedestrian walking backwards into a cyclist on a zebra crossing, the pedestrian was potentially breaking two laws (the above plus assault) and the cyclist was breaking none (though, like the pedestrian, was still being a dick). But, y’know… where’s the headline in that, eh?

There certainly is something you can do about it. You can citizens arrest them for breaking the law on making up laws

The OP says that it’s a shared path up to the crossing; in which case, probably not.

(Streetview link?)