marko35s Posted June 7, 2018 Posted June 7, 2018 If they are legal and abide by the law, of course.So that's a no then...
Frosty Posted June 7, 2018 Posted June 7, 2018 Peeps getting cross! Cyclists belong on the roads. It's the worst of the Department of Transport's problems at the mo, so they won't give a hoot. It's up to us to police ourselves. If a club member is behaving recklessly, call him out! Tell him he has to buy everyone coffee and a yummy croissant! Watch him (or her) quickly stop their BS. It works.It doesn’t work. The same guys will continue to jump red lights, ride 2/3 abreast, and and and.
Patchelicious Posted June 7, 2018 Posted June 7, 2018 It doesn’t work. The same guys will continue to jump red lights, ride 2/3 abreast, and and and.And with all the extra croissants they would just be fatter dwisses
Cippo Posted June 7, 2018 Posted June 7, 2018 If they are legal and abide by the law, of course.Most of them are licensed but obeying the rules of road is another thing. I regularly witness first hand the carnage of their disregard for road rules and the preservation of life. The taxi industry is dependent on commuters for their income. The commuters are dependent on the taxis. Why is it then that they treat there customers so badly by driving recklessly with no regard for life or rules all to make money. They are holding the public to ransom because they know our transport system would collapse without them. The goverment will not clamp down hard enough on them as the taxi industry has a huge influence in politics.
Patchelicious Posted June 7, 2018 Posted June 7, 2018 Most of them are licensed but obeying the rules of road is another thing. I regularly witness first hand the carnage of their disregard for road rules and the preservation of life. The taxi industry is dependent on commuters for their income. The commuters are dependent on the taxis. Why is it then that they treat there customers so badly by driving recklessly with no regard for life or rules all to make money. They are holding the public to ransom because they know our transport system would collapse without them. The goverment will not clamp down hard enough on them as the taxi industry has a huge influence in politics.The taxi industry is whole anomaly. Government looks at regulating, taxing or nationalising so many things, yet this one never gets mentioned. Lots of influential people making lots of untaxed cash....
ChrisF Posted June 7, 2018 Posted June 7, 2018 The weird part is I kind of agree with cyclists not being allowed on the roads. SA roads were never built to cater for bicycles so car/bicycle interaction is always going to be a problem and the car ain't ever going to lose a car/bicycle battle. The solution is, of course, the people on bicycles and in cars actually giving a **** about each other but that isn't likely to happen soon... Coming back from Meerendal our 6 year old asked about the "blue strip" on the road - the cycling lane on the new Jip De Jager road He was super stoked about the concept of a "cycling lane" And then we turned onto Tygervalley road ... barely wide enough for a passenger car. With ZERO space for a cyclist. You need total co-operation of 100% of car drivers to ensure safety for cyclists along this road .... hardly likely to ever achieve that .... The sad fact is that many of our roads are not cycling friendly. And I say this from the view point of a cycling commuter .... Much prefer the safety of MTB ...
mazambaan Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 Well at least traffic cops are being acknowledged; in fact I see a proposal to name CT Int A/port after on (Joe Masepous) has a lot of support.
cat-i Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 On Monday morning it took 1 hour 12 minutes to drive 12 km from Randburg to Sandton, There was no traffic light out, no accident or stationary car any other reason for the holdup. It was just congested. On Tuesday morning it took 54 minutes to cycle the 12 kms. It's not the bicycles causing the initial congestion and irritation .
nathrix Posted June 8, 2018 Author Posted June 8, 2018 43% voted NO so far... Just shows you the overwhelming amount of unhealthy phat lazy fck5 we have on our roads
Geronimo Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 43% voted NO so far... Unbelievable. What a beautiful, educated, loving, caring society we live in, in sunny South Africa.No further comment
Dogs Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 The comments are more scary- total ignorance on legal status of bicycles.
eccc whippet Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 another way to look at it...would you let your child ride a bicycle on the road...and i mean a built up area ?(suburb where the speed limit is suppose to be only 60 km/hr) i certainly wouldnt...an example why... i walk down the road every friday to drop off a parcel...i decided to take my daughter (9) with for the walk...not even 1 km...we dont have any pavements to walk on...so we have to walk on the road ...eventually i told my daughter to rather walk in the long grass next to the road... it would be safer for her...i finding walking with a baseball bat helps...when the driver notices the baseball they tend to change their attitude "what the F%^&* are you doing walking on the road" my point...change the result of a an accident /action and you will see a change in the attitude of the driver. another example is the beach front promenade...the way i see it...there a picking order child has absolute ride of way...the younger the more right...regardless of what they are doing. next pedestrians... then cyclist.. then lastly vehicles...they shouldnt even be on the promenade...but with the right contacts you can get a permit. a cyclist hit a child on the promenade and started shouting his mouth off about how the child was running around on the promenade without supervision...what a dick...if cyclist want to be ban from the promenade as thay are from the Umhlanga promenade...we just need to keep doing what we are doing. should cyclist be allowed on the road...the question we should be asking...why are motorists not being held more accountable for their aggressive attitude towards everyone else on "PUBLIC roads" including cyclist.
Eldron Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 should cyclist be allowed on the road...the question we should be asking...why are motorists not being held more accountable for their aggressive attitude towards everyone else on "PUBLIC roads" including cyclist. That is solving the symptom not the disease. The question we should be asking ourselves is why are South Africans so damn angry and why don't they treat each other with a little respect"?. You can't punish "respect, morals and ethics into people.
Gambithunt Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 I may sound pessimistic but the idea that a cyclist on the road would get even the smallest amount of respect by a car driver in SA that has never cycled before is as likely as the average SA driver not breaking any road laws in a day. There are very few. Sometimes I think we need to just be realists and realize that it's not going to get better, ever, only worse.
.thumb.jpg.f7359a62a1f4f4199fdd069d76f07b79.jpg)
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.