> > From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/11/02 Thu PM 02:30:47 GMT > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: Adults on bicycles > > Doug Franklin wrote: > > > I suspect that it mostly boils down to "familiarity breeds contempt". > > Those short, regularly traveled routes are the ones where the > > driver is most likely to be running on "autopilot" because > > they know the route, and probably also the most likely, > > therefore, to be where they're doing everything except paying > > attention to the traffic ... shaving, putting on makeup, > > reading the newspaper, etc. Those are also the routes I'd > > guess people would be most likely to be running late on. :-) > > Every morning I nip down the road to buy a newspaper and have to cross a > slow moving, very busy road. Getting eye contact with a driver to > acknowledge your existence in front of her/him is fairly tricky as the route > is so familiar too them, they do other things to pass the time; in the last > week I've seen the obvious 'phone use, chatting, eating breakfast, finishing > getting dressed for work, tie, collar buttons...Even if they do see you, do > they 'see' you, do you register in their mind? > > The speed cameras on sections in the morning that could be activated are > slowed down for and side roads are raced up instead to 'make up the time'. > As a pedestrian crossing the road for a short distance it's alarming enough, > but to share the road space as a cyclist with many of these people has made > me considerably more nervous. I haven't worn a cycle helmet before, but I'll > be looking at them this weekend :-( > > Malcolm
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