Mobile phones. This is bound to brass the motorists off.

[Andrew]

Read the Governments reply to contributors on the new law on Mobiles.

Greatly amused to see it would not be extended to cyclists as it was not seen as a problem area.

Yes, this means we can quite legally ride round jabbering away holding our mobiles but it will be
illegal for car drivers.

And quite right too.

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"Look laddie, if you're in the penalty area and aren't quite sure what to do with the ball, just
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[Thomas]

"andrew" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Read the Governments reply to contributors on the new law on Mobiles.
>
> Greatly amused to see it would not be extended to cyclists as it was not seen as a problem area.
>
> Yes, this means we can quite legally ride round jabbering away holding our mobiles but it will be
> illegal for car drivers.
>
> And quite right too.

Hehe, however, I was slightly purplexed to see a cyclist going at speed down hill today whilst
eating an ice cream out of a cone. Hope she didn't have to stop suddenly

Thomas.

 

[Simon Proven]

andrew wrote:

> Read the Governments reply to contributors on the new law on Mobiles.
>
> Greatly amused to see it would not be extended to cyclists as it was not seen as a problem area.
>
> Yes, this means we can quite legally ride round jabbering away holding our mobiles but it will be
> illegal for car drivers.

> And quite right too.

Nice troll.

 

[Mark South]

"Simon Proven" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> andrew wrote:
>
> > Read the Governments reply to contributors on the new law on
Mobiles.
> >
> > Greatly amused to see it would not be extended to cyclists as it was
not
> > seen as a problem area.
> >
> > Yes, this means we can quite legally ride round jabbering away
holding our
> > mobiles but it will be illegal for car drivers.
>
> > And quite right too.
>
> Nice troll.

ITYM "Nice grey-bearded, long-in-the-tooth, bent-over-walking-with-a-stick troll".

 

[Simon Proven]

Mark South wrote:

> "Simon Proven" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>andrew wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Read the Governments reply to contributors on the new law on
>
> Mobiles.
>
>>>Greatly amused to see it would not be extended to cyclists as it was
>
> not
>
>>>seen as a problem area.
>>>
>>>Yes, this means we can quite legally ride round jabbering away
>
> holding our
>
>>>mobiles but it will be illegal for car drivers.
>>
>>>And quite right too.
>>
>>Nice troll.
>
>
> ITYM "Nice grey-bearded, long-in-the-tooth, bent-over-walking-with-a-stick troll".

Aye - but I thought I was reading uk.transport.

Simon

 

[Gonzalez]

Richard Goodman wrote:

>Nah, it'd only be a troll if he'd cross-posted to uk.t just to wind them up..

Let's see then. I'll post it to uk.trasport and uk.rec.driving and see what happens.
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[Andrew]

"Gonzalez" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Richard Goodman wrote:
>
> >Nah, it'd only be a troll if he'd cross-posted to uk.t just to wind them up..
>
> Let's see then. I'll post it to uk.trasport and uk.rec.driving and see what happens.

Trolling? Not *really*. It is factually acurate & as pointed out I didn't x-post.

Did anyone x-post it? I don't ssem to have those NG on my server.

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[Gonzalez]

andrew wrote:

>
>"Gonzalez" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Richard Goodman wrote:
>>
>> >Nah, it'd only be a troll if he'd cross-posted to uk.t just to wind them up..
>>
>> Let's see then. I'll post it to uk.trasport and uk.rec.driving and see what happens.
>
>Trolling? Not *really*. It is factually acurate & as pointed out I didn't x-post.
>
>Did anyone x-post it? I don't ssem to have those NG on my server.

I posted it separably under the pseudonym, "Rex Anderton", posing as a disgruntled motorist.

Message-ID: <[email protected]>

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Read the Governments reply to contributors on the new law on Mobiles.

It is going to become an offence for drivers to use their mobile phones. I was horrified to learn
that the same law is not going to be extended to cyclists.

It seems that it's OK for a cyclist to be going through a red light while chatting to their friends
on a mobile phone.

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4 replies so far and one reply to a reply:

#1 =====

It has never been "OK" for a cyclist to go through a red light and that is not going to be changed.

#2 =====

Cyclists using mobiles are likey to kill themselves.

Drivers using moblies are likely to kill other road users.

#3 =====

Should also apply to peds, the way they step straight into the road while chatting on the phone.

+++++

Lol, I work for one of the mobile networks, and the amount of times you see that in the carparks -
someone blindly walking out in front of a car while on the phone. I'm surprised there have been no
fatalities... It got so bad that one time they had to send a memo round!

#4 =====

It just increases the chances of the cyclist being killed.

Which is why they want to make all such accidents the motorists fault.

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[phil]

In article <[email protected]>, andrew
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Read the Governments reply to contributors on the new law on Mobiles.
>
>Greatly amused to see it would not be extended to cyclists as it was not seen as a problem area.
>
>Yes, this means we can quite legally ride round jabbering away holding our mobiles but it will be
>illegal for car drivers.

A couple of days ago as I was cycling to work I crossed the path of another cyclist on Broad Street
in Oxford who appeared to be texting on her mobile as she cycled along.

Whether she made it to the end of the road unharmed this witness cannot say, as he turned off Broad
Street to cut through to the High.

Phil

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