May. 12th, 2018

davidgillon: A pair of crutches, hanging from coat hooks, reflected in a mirror (Default)
 Just whizzed over to the station to pick up my tickets for Wednesday's trip to Durham.

Immediately outside of the station is a dual carriageway (the A2), with a pedestrian crossing. So I crossed the first half without incident, got to the second half and waited for the lights to change. The lights changed to red, a couple of cars stopped without incident and I started to cross from one side while a pedestrian crossed from the other. At that point a cyclist sails through, completely ignoring the red light, and not even bothering to slow down. I watched him and it was clearly a deliberate decision, not "Oh, shit, I was daydreaming". He was closer to the pedestrian than me, but if I'd hit that segment on the roll rather than from a standing start I could easily have been moving fast enough to make a collision unavoidable. His refusal to react when yelled at made it clear it's probably something he does regularly.

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