Anyone with a laptop bag should be working from home tbh. Free up the remaining infrastructure for key workers.
Covid proved its entirely possible
The two bellends on the right should move in. Other than that, great to see
Being forced to drive (van with stuff) has sucked these last few days, but I have seen so many people on bikes and it makes me feel better, each one of those could have been another car blocking up the road.
You know we did that essential workers thing in COVID? Could we do the same for driving in London when there are strikes on? Or just always?
I love the way London continues to stick two fingers up at every inconvenience in the way of our lives
All the finance bros cycling to the office?
It’s a positive from the strikes – I’m sure more people will cycle to work more regularly now
I hope they continue to cycle to work, instead of giving money to TfL.
A good machine (cheap ones are just toys, and don’t have the practical features or ergonomic design for commuting), will pay for itself in the first year, from the savings in public transport and taxi fares, IME.
Stood at a traffic light this morning, 15 out of 15 cyclists ran the red light. Some of the behaviour is absolutely shocking. I’m seeing older people trying to jog across the road because they know the cyclists are coming fast and less likely to stop.
My mate is who’s pretty big was crossing the road on Sunday night and lime bikes did not care, they came full speed at him
I think cycling is great but I really wish the behaviour of some would improve.
Jumped on a forest bike to go from char x to euston.
2/3 or more of all cyclists, including the lycra clad, ignored red lights, to the point that i felt like a plumb for actually stopping and waiting.
Should allow for more wfh just for a week. Terrible employers
Just got into work – via bus from Bond street. Going along Cockspur street, the bus had to slam on his brakes Just in time to miss a lime bike that thought it would be a good idea to cut in front of a moving & highly visible bus.
Wow you guys weren’t kidding
Regular Cyclists be like “oh look, friends!”
Someone is going to get killed out there on those bike lanes this week. Running red lights, crossing over lines, cars getting stuck, pedestrians trying to cross the road. Everyone is at fault to an extent, but the cycle behaviour is particularly bad.
I am old enough to remember when brits took the piss out of watching 10s of thousands of Chinese cycling their cities saying the couldn’t afford cars.
Almost got hit 6 times yesterday by cyclists who think the pavement and crossings are for them, or who think one-way systems are just a recommendation, or just don’t give a shit.
Stay on the road, follow the road rules and slow the fuck down when people are trying to cross the road and you’re cycling on the pavement. I’m all for cyclists but Jfc they make it so hard to support them with the sheer number of twats using them.
Great stress test for the cycling network, and seems like it mostly passed.
We just need better facilities at the journeys end so that the City isn’t completely littered with green eyesores from 9-5
Cars have a place, bikes have a place and scooters have a place. All are as important as each other.
i saw someoen on a lime bike just ride over the junction at oxford square and then cycle down the wrong side of the road with cars coming towards him on the left, was wild.
So many Lime bike wankers this morning, cutting people up, trying to overtake in tight sections, jumping lights, generally not paying attention to their surroundings FML. People seem to ride Lime Bikes like they’re driving a car.
Also impatient bell ringers can fuck off too.
Almost got into a pile up this morning when some idiot city bod on his phone decided to step out into the road, a cyclist Infront of him had to stop dead while all us behind had to brake/swerve. Gave the guy an absolute earful of foul language but he just kept walking on his phone didn’t even look, he honestly would have gotten the shit kicked out of him if we crashed.
Not from London what’s going off here?? Love to see loafs of people commuting on bikes but, some people have lack of road safety
I used to cycle for a living in London. The biggest problem for cyclists is the fuel pollution. I had to quit my job because all those diesel fumes were wrecking my health and my chest had got really bad and the available masks don’t stop diesel particulates. Stopping at some junctions was unbearable because of the fumes. Buses in particular are terrifying to cyclists with some of the drivers hell bent on getting as close as they can to you. It’s a living hell and i don’t envy the people that have been forced to cycle on those roads where drivers blame all cyclists for there being bad cyclists. I remember taking a cycling proficiency test when i was younger, don’t hear of those these days but perhaps they’d help?
Nuts to see and hear people are using Lime Bikes to cycle to work. Their rates are really expensive for journeys longer than 5 minutes imo.
A lot of people posting on here don’t seem to realise that there is currently a Tube strike, hence the massive increase in cycling until it ends on Friday!
Hot new conspiracy dropped: The tube strikes were in fact orchestrated by the Big Bike lobby.
I cycle 12 miles daily to work in London and it has been crazy this week. The amount of people on the hire bike that have no idea what they are doing. It is dangerous. I changed my hours to start and finish 2 hours early to avoid everyone.
Going through/ either side of the arch into Hyde Park this morning there was literally no space left for pedestrians whatsoever. It felt like wandering off a bus into the middle of the Tour de France, except I presume in the TdF most of the riders have some semblance of an idea what is around them.
Last night 7pm it was like people were evacuating the city, by Lime Bike. Avoided several collisions with bellends but was immediately clipped by impatient regular cyclists who were right on my rear wheel, carnage
I’m all for travelling by bicycle but the government really need to start changing the infrastructure to accommodate them and separate bicycles from motor vehicles.
I’ve seen so many dangerous situations on the roads with everyone feeling like they have right of way that it’s only a matter of time until cyclist death rates go up sharply.
The only thing holding me back from being a cyclist is I can’t bear the mental overload of thinking if my bike will be stolen today or not
I’d get my Luger out
I saw two fights break out over lime bikes yesterday
I also saw somebody wheeling a lime bike around Tesco’s to do their shopping in case somebody hired it
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Anyone with a laptop bag should be working from home tbh. Free up the remaining infrastructure for key workers.
Covid proved its entirely possible
The two bellends on the right should move in. Other than that, great to see
Being forced to drive (van with stuff) has sucked these last few days, but I have seen so many people on bikes and it makes me feel better, each one of those could have been another car blocking up the road.
You know we did that essential workers thing in COVID? Could we do the same for driving in London when there are strikes on? Or just always?
I love the way London continues to stick two fingers up at every inconvenience in the way of our lives
All the finance bros cycling to the office?
It’s a positive from the strikes – I’m sure more people will cycle to work more regularly now
I hope they continue to cycle to work, instead of giving money to TfL.
A good machine (cheap ones are just toys, and don’t have the practical features or ergonomic design for commuting), will pay for itself in the first year, from the savings in public transport and taxi fares, IME.
Stood at a traffic light this morning, 15 out of 15 cyclists ran the red light. Some of the behaviour is absolutely shocking. I’m seeing older people trying to jog across the road because they know the cyclists are coming fast and less likely to stop.
My mate is who’s pretty big was crossing the road on Sunday night and lime bikes did not care, they came full speed at him
I think cycling is great but I really wish the behaviour of some would improve.
Jumped on a forest bike to go from char x to euston.
2/3 or more of all cyclists, including the lycra clad, ignored red lights, to the point that i felt like a plumb for actually stopping and waiting.
Should allow for more wfh just for a week. Terrible employers
Just got into work – via bus from Bond street. Going along Cockspur street, the bus had to slam on his brakes Just in time to miss a lime bike that thought it would be a good idea to cut in front of a moving & highly visible bus.
Wow you guys weren’t kidding
Regular Cyclists be like “oh look, friends!”
Someone is going to get killed out there on those bike lanes this week. Running red lights, crossing over lines, cars getting stuck, pedestrians trying to cross the road. Everyone is at fault to an extent, but the cycle behaviour is particularly bad.
I am old enough to remember when brits took the piss out of watching 10s of thousands of Chinese cycling their cities saying the couldn’t afford cars.
https://youtu.be/FWl_-hlyXRU?si=N1ien8sT_pdbXGay
Is it now our turn?
Almost got hit 6 times yesterday by cyclists who think the pavement and crossings are for them, or who think one-way systems are just a recommendation, or just don’t give a shit.
Stay on the road, follow the road rules and slow the fuck down when people are trying to cross the road and you’re cycling on the pavement. I’m all for cyclists but Jfc they make it so hard to support them with the sheer number of twats using them.
Great stress test for the cycling network, and seems like it mostly passed.
We just need better facilities at the journeys end so that the City isn’t completely littered with green eyesores from 9-5
Cars have a place, bikes have a place and scooters have a place. All are as important as each other.
i saw someoen on a lime bike just ride over the junction at oxford square and then cycle down the wrong side of the road with cars coming towards him on the left, was wild.
So many Lime bike wankers this morning, cutting people up, trying to overtake in tight sections, jumping lights, generally not paying attention to their surroundings FML. People seem to ride Lime Bikes like they’re driving a car.
Also impatient bell ringers can fuck off too.
Almost got into a pile up this morning when some idiot city bod on his phone decided to step out into the road, a cyclist Infront of him had to stop dead while all us behind had to brake/swerve. Gave the guy an absolute earful of foul language but he just kept walking on his phone didn’t even look, he honestly would have gotten the shit kicked out of him if we crashed.
Not from London what’s going off here?? Love to see loafs of people commuting on bikes but, some people have lack of road safety
I used to cycle for a living in London. The biggest problem for cyclists is the fuel pollution. I had to quit my job because all those diesel fumes were wrecking my health and my chest had got really bad and the available masks don’t stop diesel particulates. Stopping at some junctions was unbearable because of the fumes. Buses in particular are terrifying to cyclists with some of the drivers hell bent on getting as close as they can to you. It’s a living hell and i don’t envy the people that have been forced to cycle on those roads where drivers blame all cyclists for there being bad cyclists. I remember taking a cycling proficiency test when i was younger, don’t hear of those these days but perhaps they’d help?
Nuts to see and hear people are using Lime Bikes to cycle to work. Their rates are really expensive for journeys longer than 5 minutes imo.
A lot of people posting on here don’t seem to realise that there is currently a Tube strike, hence the massive increase in cycling until it ends on Friday!
Hot new conspiracy dropped: The tube strikes were in fact orchestrated by the Big Bike lobby.
I cycle 12 miles daily to work in London and it has been crazy this week. The amount of people on the hire bike that have no idea what they are doing. It is dangerous. I changed my hours to start and finish 2 hours early to avoid everyone.
Going through/ either side of the arch into Hyde Park this morning there was literally no space left for pedestrians whatsoever. It felt like wandering off a bus into the middle of the Tour de France, except I presume in the TdF most of the riders have some semblance of an idea what is around them.
Last night 7pm it was like people were evacuating the city, by Lime Bike. Avoided several collisions with bellends but was immediately clipped by impatient regular cyclists who were right on my rear wheel, carnage
I’m all for travelling by bicycle but the government really need to start changing the infrastructure to accommodate them and separate bicycles from motor vehicles.
I’ve seen so many dangerous situations on the roads with everyone feeling like they have right of way that it’s only a matter of time until cyclist death rates go up sharply.
The only thing holding me back from being a cyclist is I can’t bear the mental overload of thinking if my bike will be stolen today or not
I’d get my Luger out
I saw two fights break out over lime bikes yesterday
I also saw somebody wheeling a lime bike around Tesco’s to do their shopping in case somebody hired it
We could turn the subways into bike lanes
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