Cyclists
The area of Hackney where I live is just north of the City and there are a lot of cyclists. Normally, there isn’t a problem, but they will sneak up the inside of say a bus that has stopped at a zebra crossing for me to cross and a couple of times, I have nearly been run over. Although, I’m a recovering sixty-odd-year-old stroke victim, I can just about cope, but there is a lot of complaints in the shops and pubs from pedestrians about cyclists ignoring the rules of the road and the pavement.
All I think we need is that everybody tries to follow what the law lays down.
Perhaps, what annoys me at the moment, is that there is building work opposite, which means there are extra hazards like delivery lorries and skips, where I cross the road. This would be fine, as usually everything is properly placed to cause the minimum of obstruction. The problem though is that so many drivers and motorcyclists use the road as a short cut and weave in and out of the hazards at speeds over the 20 mph limit for the road.
I think it would help if Hackney followed Islington and went for a borough wide 20 mph speed limit.
The Anonymous Widower 
Hackney residential roads to have 20mph speed limit by April
http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/hackney_residential_roads_to_have_20mph_speed_limit_by_april_1_1191608
Comment by Marc | February 3, 2012 |
Islington’s rules apply to all roads in the Borough, that are there responsibility.
It does seem to have got worse lately down here. As I said there’s been quite a bit of building work and the road often has vans and skips on the side during the day. It also seems that more traffic cuts down Dove Road and then goes straight over often at well over twenty. Possibly, when the pub was open, people were more careful.
Comment by AnonW | February 3, 2012 |