Tried to screen grab this but it kind of messed up a bit, so I apologise for that. Appears the news site has some kind of filter thing over it trying to stop me.
The basics of this is that someone was riding a bicycle to work one morning and a police officer stopped them for legal riding. Dont know if this is a fit, will remove if not.
Sounds like they took a turn before the turn light went green?
There being “no traffic” and the fact “buses turn like all the time” isn’t really an excuse.
Find it on streetview. The letter is refering to the filter light that denotes the traffic on the other side has a red to give indication that its safe to proceed with caution.
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Yeah it’d be safer just not to have a bike lane imo.
Maybe that’s something they did to reduce accidents at that specific junction.
As a Brit I don’t get it at all either.
Maybe it’s so bikes can get through stopped traffic to the bike area in front of the traffic lights.
Maybe it’s so bikes can get through stopped traffic to the bike area in front of the traffic lights.
That’s what it looks like to me. The way it tapers off and then has a big landing pad area in the front.
That aint even the worst we have down here. Had a work colleague shoved off his bike because a pedestrian thought the old bike lane down Western Esplanade was a pavement. It was also in that same newspaper that a guy got a blackeye when someone thumped him on a shared path towards the winover roundabout
This is known as a “bike box” in the UK. The short section of cycle lane is just to help cyclists approach the box. You would only use it when the lights are red to get in front of stopped cars. There is no cycling on the pavement (sidewalk) allowed here, only on marked shared paths.
You’re absolutely right. It indicates you have priority. My bad.
Thanks. It helps when you’ve lived in the area I suppose. 😊
Sounds about right, pretty sure they either don’t know most rules of the road or are such arrogant pricks they think they don’t apply to them.
As a cyclist the 3 most dangerous types of vehicles I keep an eye out for are taxis, council vehicles and then police cars. All of which often pass me with 50cm of space between their vehicle and my handlebars.
Taxis are without a doubt the worst however. Fuck those arrogant, dangerous cunts.
Lorries. They overtake and pull in before they’re past you, so you’re forced off the road.
Funnily enough a policeman asked me to report this every time I saw it, because he knew there were a couple of particular drivers who kept doing it and they wanted plenty of evidence.
Where I am I’ve never really had an issue with lorries, they always seem to be aware of where I am and pass with more than enough space. Smaller 7.5 ton (usually scaffolders) however don’t seem to have the same awareness in my experience.
Had a taxi force me to jump back when on a pedestrian crossing last week. Was already half way across.
Link to original article: https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23406739.southampton-nurse-pcso-stopped-getting-work---letter/
Archived version: https://archive.li/eFVU8Article text:
I read of the recent scandals of police failures and have to say I really am not surprised.
I would like to share a recent experience.
I work as a nurse at Southampton General and a couple of weeks ago I had been called in on a Sunday morning after a colleague fell sick.
I approached the right turn lane on Winchester Road lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree, the main light went green and there being no traffic so early I turned onto Dale Road.
It was then I realised there was a man standing in the road with his hand outstretched.
As I got closer I saw in the dim light his PCSO labelling on his uniform so I stopped to ask what the problem was.
He insisted I was not allowed to turn off Winchester Road until the filter light came on.
I told him this was nonsense as buses turn like that there all the time.
He then started talking of a £100 fine for ignoring traffic signals so I produced my staff ID card and told him he was stopping me getting on with my job and that I was going to phone 111 right then to complain.
It was then that he said he was “letting me off with words of caution!” and let me go.
I have had no contact from Hampshire police over the matter, who seem to ignore traffic issues in the main, so it was a shock to be stopped for something legal!
If this is the standard of policing we have no hope.
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This appears to be a problem with rendering ligatures in your font. Youll note it’s mostly ff and ffi that are getting blocked. Your device either doesn’t support them or your screen grabber doesn’t.
Possibly I dont know. Their site is known for not liking adblockers. Had to render out the obtrusive ads and then noticed.
ACAB - All Cars Are Bastards
That’s absolute bs… if there is a main light and associated filter light, when the main light shows, vehicles can proceed as long as it is safe to do so.
The filter light is an explicit indication that the filter route has right of way by means of a red for all other routes that also feed in.
The cyclist did nothing wrong… damn ‘copper light’ (pcsos have no power anyway) needs to go back to highway school on that one
Why are all the double-Fs covered by a question mark?
I’ve no idea. Someone else suggest it was the screen grabber software conflicting. I found their news site quite buggy and weird. Its a proper regulated registered news source too.
Many fonts have ligatures for ff, fi, ffi. You might notice the first f touching the second f on the upper curve or the i dot missing. It’s something carried over from the printing press and it just looks nicer.
Some fonts might not have those special characters or maybe ops screen grabber doesn’t just grab the pixels but rather tries to create a pdf style document. That’s at least my suspicion.
tbh it reminds me of accidentally using UTF-16 on UTF-8 or ASCII lol
Kinda dumb if it really is a copy filter
