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Yesterday’s live blog featured the video of a cyclist using the A38 cycle lane in Birmingham, with its lane-crossing turnings and not-looking motorists…
The clip was fairly uncontroversial, I don’t think that’s up for debate. A cyclist riding along the route was forced to brake hard after a driver, coming from the left, didn’t check to see if anything was coming and pulled out across the rider’s path. A fairly common occurrence for anyone who uses a bicycle to negotiate the UK’s road network, unfortunately.
The Sun newspaper did not see it that way…
We really didn’t want to give their social post the slightest air of promotion, so here’s a picture of it instead (with Jeremy Vine’s thoughts on the “but who’s in the right?” ridiculousness)…
But who is in the right?
😡😡😡 pic.twitter.com/VvOvRRQ5gd— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) April 28, 2022
Amongst the replies: someone who thought the cyclist was riding the wrong way down a one-way street (no, really), “It’s a horrible thing to have to say but in this instance the cyclist is absolutely 100% in the right”, and this handy advice…
Anyone who doesn’t know the answer to this should send their driving license back to the DVLA ASAP.
— CyclingInASkirt (@CyclingInASkirt) April 28, 2022
But that wasn’t the end of matters as, in reply to Vine, another rider who has footage from the very same Birmingham cycle lane, said he’d “nearly died there” yesterday afternoon.
You can hear my brakes go on very early, in assumption the driver will stuff up … because they so often do. 👍🏼 pic.twitter.com/5sEueresBc
— Michael Brown 🌍🇺🇦 (@bikelawman) April 28, 2022
It seems running the gauntlet of crossing motorists is just part and parcel of using this infrastructure…
In the words of yesterday’s cyclist: “Even when you think you’re cycling in a safe place, there are drivers around to show you, you never are.”
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