On the 30th of October 2018 issue 430 of Taxi was published. A ‘newspaper’ published by the LTDA for its members. Page 17 of that issue contains comments from taxi members, we will be looking at the comment from Kamil. GIVE CYCLE GAZ THE SLIP I was recently involved in altercation with Gareth Williams [pictured] known… More A response to the LTDA, Taxi and Kamil
British Cycling launched the campaign #TurningTheCorner. A campaign to simplify the rules around turning at junctions, to make it safe for cyclists and pedestrians and to reduce casualties. I can’t fault the idea of making the roads safer. I’m 100% behind that. However I am concerned with how this is actually going to be implemented.… More Turning the corner
A few months back TrafficDroid posted a short video of him being knocked off by a Taxi in London. Recently an update has been posted with the results. So the basics of this is the cyclist was travelling in a straight line, thought the overtake was too close so sounded his horn. Driver stopped whilst… More Why are Professional drivers getting away with this?
There isn’t anything in Law or the Highway Code that explicitly says that cyclists are allowed to filter. So are we? Looking into a few of the highway code rules in detail we come across a few things that suggest that we can and that other road users should expect two-wheeled vehicles to be filtering.… More Is filtering legal?
Exchanging places is a scheme run by The Cycle Task Force of the Met. A fantastic scheme that gets cyclists into HGV’s and shows them the blind spots! It’s a real eye opener, I was shocked when I first when in and I throughly recommend everyone to do it when they get the opportunity. Some… More Lorry Blind Spots – Exchanging Places