Topic: Ditracted Driving

[rrocket]

Thank you. When approaching an intersection I now occupy the entire lane, especially at a red light. I started out cycling on the road thinking I need to give cars more space but all the drivers want to do is push you into the curb, fack dat.

Let me guess...you don't use hand signals to signal you are stopping at that intersection?

In use hand signals to indicate a turn. Stopping is obvious.

It's still the law.  And you are breaking it.     And stopping might not be obvious to a person in a car.  Not a huge difference in a bike being stopped vs. one traveling slowly.

Typical how cyclists want motorists to obey the law as it pertains to them....but not the other way around.

[quadzilla]

Typical how motorists cyclists want cyclists motorists to obey the law as it pertains to them....but not the other way around.

Same thing. 

[rrocket]

Typical how motorists cyclists want cyclists motorists to obey the law as it pertains to them....but not the other way around.

Same thing. 

Indeed.  I obey the laws as it pertains to cyclists. 

But here we have a cyclist  flatly admitting that he doesn't follow the laws.

[quadzilla]

Typical how motorists cyclists want cyclists motorists to obey the law as it pertains to them....but not the other way around.

Same thing. 

Indeed.  I obey the laws as it pertains to cyclists. 

But here we have a cyclist  flatly admitting that he doesn't follow the laws.

Only those laws. 

Law or not the fact is many drivers do squeeze cyclists into the curb. If I signal, don't signal, wave a giant banner that says I'm stopping there are drivers out there that just don't give a shi!t and think you are in the way.

I've been at a red light, fully stopped with my foot down on the ground about 2-3 feet from the curb (talking my lane as we like to call it) and a car that was going straight tried to squeeze in between me and the car in the next lane. WTF?

[dkaz]

Some intersections in Vietnam of all places had counters to show how many seconds until the light turned red and how many seconds until the light turned green. Brilliant.

[rrocket]

Only those laws. 

I stay FAR, FAR away from pedestrians and cyclists.  Why?  The are unpredictable.  I've see cyclists swerve without warning (pot hole?).  Pedestrians walking as if on suicide missions.

I don't need the hassle of one of these idiots running into me.

[quadzilla]

I've only look briefly but does a cyclist have to signal stopping by law? Nothing mentioned in here although they do say you must signal a turn.

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/pubs/cycling-guide/pdfs/cycling-guide.pdf

[quadzilla]

Only those laws. 

I stay FAR, FAR away from pedestrians and cyclists.  Why?  The are unpredictable.  I've see cyclists swerve without warning (pot hole?).  Pedestrians walking as if on suicide missions.

I don't need the hassle of one of these idiots running into me.

I find pedestrians the worst of all three (cars, bikes, peds).

[rrocket]

Only those laws. 

I stay FAR, FAR away from pedestrians and cyclists.  Why?  The are unpredictable.  I've see cyclists swerve without warning (pot hole?).  Pedestrians walking as if on suicide missions.

I don't need the hassle of one of these idiots running into me.

I find pedestrians the worst of all three (cars, bikes, peds).

It depends where.  They seem insane in TO.  That goes for bikes too.

[Guy]

Traffic back home was slow today and we are crawling at 10 kph when I notice the guy behind me is texting. Traffic stop, he stops, continues to text. Traffic starts but I don't until he lift his eyes, then I signal to him to look where he is going. He gesture at me as I start moving and at the next traffic light he positions himself to be besides me probably to yell obcenities or whathever. But traffic light turns green and my lane goes, but now he his stuck behind another texter that did no go when the light turned green....

[Sir Osis of Liver]

ps. i was so distracted, i never noticed that the topic was misspelled.

I didn't notice that either!!!

It's been driving me crazy since the topic went up.

[Brig]

It's been driving me crazy since the topic went up.

Same here. 

[dkaz]

I tried to find a witty joke about being ditracted but couldn't think of anything and then forgot about it until it was mentioned.

[Snowman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdVvfu5OWUY