PSA: War on britain's roads on BBC1

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WHY o WHY do we always get a **** representing cyclists.

Law of averages ? 😉

Point taken 😆

Appropriate use of bed music BBC.

woman who’s daughter was killed by a cement truck….

Song choice: DJ Shadow, Organ Donor

It comes to something when the most sensible people on this programme are the taxi drivers!

If you go out looking for trouble, you’ll find it. Some of those incidents could have been avoided simply by a bit of forward planning on behalf of the cyclist.

I mean look now, how many cyclists have gone up the inside of an indicating left turn lorry?!

I don’t think i’d want to be a cyclist OR a lorry driver in londaaaann

That cement truck driver doesn’t like to give any room on the inside does he!

When I got knocked off last time, the doctor who I saw said she had just moved down from London, where she cycled everywhere. She refuses to cycle around here (a largish country town) as it feels too dangerous.

Glasses guy makes me want to sell my bike and buy a taxi.

Appropriate use of bed music BBC.

woman who’s daughter was killed by a cement truck….

Song choice: DJ Shadow, Organ Donor

priceless

Plenty of zombies in London … 🙄

On both sides …

stanfree –
The lad with the glaases is a COCK and I want to knock him off his bike too

Views like this scare me if you’re being serious rather than “hilarious”. He’s only riding his bike FFS.

Heh…bop!

guy who tried to squeeze between the bus and the pick up – what a tool!

Those couriors = 😯

The woman who’s daughter was killed looks a tortured soul. Very sad…

Skill = Luck?

Highclimber – yeah sorry, you didn’t

Anyway, it’s fixie racing now, what we’ve all be waiting for

As I thought, stupid people exist on bikes and in vehicles.

Two cyclists with glasses – both making good and valid points. One behaves sensibly, the other behaves apparently in a way that seems designed to antagonise. IT Gareth, think about it.

Alf (? Age 77) talked a lot of sense as does the mother who tragically lost her daughter.

Lessons learned – drive and cycle defensively, defuse conflict situations rather than antagonise, don’t smack vehicles, take deep breathes, the aggro isn’t worth it.

The cycle PC, “I wouldn’t call these people cyclists, I would call them criminals.” Well said.

Appropriate use of bed music BBC.

woman who’s daughter was killed by a cement truck….

Song choice: DJ Shadow, Organ Donor

The next track, while she was talking about the AGM, was:

Explosions In The Sky – First Breath After Coma

Plenty of zombies in London …

Thing is, London works remarkably well. Everyone (cyclists, drivers, pedestrians) ignore red lights and act like idiots but surprisingly it all works very well 99% of the time. Organised chaos.

Alf talks a lot of sense, seems like a really sound bloke. Poor guy, losing his grandson like that. 🙁

London can be a pretty brutal place to drive around, let alone cycle. I’ve done enough of the former to steer me clear of the latter.

So far, the only person talking sense seems to be the mother of the girl killed by the cement truck…………..

It’s turning out to be quite balanced.

no mention of helmets yet…

Those couriers should have their bikes taken away, crushed into a little can, and forced to drink their own urine out of their bike cans.

chipsngravy – Member
It’s turning out to be quite balanced.

I’m following this on a car forum too, they seem to agree – minus a bit of a moan about flashing lights

So this was the programme that people were getting ready to write to their MPs about? Seemed fairly balanced to me in the end.

Not as anti bike nor as a sensational as I feared earlier. Makes me think about cycling and driving.

London’s fine to cycle in – I have cycled to work off and on, no pun intended, for over 25 years. It is a lot better now as there are so many cyclists, even in the past it was n’t bad. I only been knocked off five times and none of those were serious as it was pretty obvious it was going to happen so I could prepare.

Views like this scare me if you’re being serious rather than “hilarious”. He’s only riding his bike FFS.

I was actually +1 the fact he was a COCK but forgot to use the quote function.
If you watch the clip he realises the taxi driver is calming down and walking away so he starts to try and antagonise him by clapping his hands. It seems all he wants to do is ride around looking for footage to post online.

Same production company as 24hrs in A&E?

7yrs central London commuting here-taught me to have 360degree vision on a bike

Good programme, pretty well balanced. I’ve seen most of the footage before except that HGV in Glasgow on the roundabout. I thought I’d had some near misses (and hits) on roundabouts but jeez, that was scary.

Well done to the BBC for saving licence payers money by not leaving a 1 mile radius of the studio.

Well done to the BBC for saving licence payers money by not leaving a 1 mile radius of the studio.

You do realise the studio is in Manchester now?

Edit: Oops, that was just BBC Brekkie, apologies.

Same production company as 24hrs in A&E?

Nope

A&E = The Garden Productions

War On Britain’s Roads = Leopard Films

Surely should be named “War on LONDONS roads” (ok apart from the scary tanker incident in Glasgow).

Commuting in Cardiff seems pretty damn good now 🙂

Teamhurtmore

Lessons learned – drive and cycle defensively, defuse conflict situations rather than antagonise, don’t smack vehicles, take deep breathes, the aggro isn’t worth it.

totally agree. All the incidents in the programme stem from one road user believing they have more rights than others..

Shame they threw in that courier racing (I assune thats not actually a frequent occurrence) otherwise reasonably balanced.

Cabbie losing his grandson cycling was a bit of a shocker.

Sad thing is, I don’t think anyone talking on the programme had changed their views even with the benefit of hindsight 🙁