Reckless Cyclist

[Baal]

This morning, heard on the news that they are pushing/considering for knowledge of 'Cyclist RIghts' to be included in the question paper to pass the highway code. ..

[inlinesix]

This morning, heard on the news that they are pushing/considering for knowledge of 'Cyclist RIghts' to be included in the question paper to pass the highway code. ..

Irene Ng suggested it.

[SuPerBoRed]

This morning, heard on the news that they are pushing/considering for knowledge of 'Cyclist RIghts' to be included in the question paper to pass the highway code. ..

 

woohoo... does this mean that when i knock into a chao angmo cyclist hiding in my blindspot, he is equally at fault for staying there?

[Baal]

Irene Ng suggested it.

Ah yes.....just couldnt recall surname. I was thinking earlier it was Irene Gan, but somehow the name didnt seem right.

[Neutralsg]

a) Because they cannot always be where an offence is committed

b) It helps when they make REAL EFFORT to act through penalties or perhaps recommend laws for e.g. requiring registration of bicycles to be eligible for use on public roads etc. upon receiving a complaints

I have nothing against cyclists who are responsible but not those who are careless and reckless

 

Why we as road users have to be eye & ear of TP/LTA?

 

Shouldn't it be the job of TP/LTA?

 

I agree with what you had said. Aren't we too lenient on TP/LTA?

 

[Baal]

 

woohoo... does this mean that when i knock into a chao angmo cyclist hiding in my blindspot, he is equally at fault for staying there?

erh...sorry, iirc, its meant for the motorist's highway code....

[Volvobrick]

Irene Ng suggested it.

The one with old angmo husband? Maybe that old man is a cyclist...

Edited November 4, 2014 by Volvobrick

[RadX]

The one with old angmo husband? Maybe that old man is a cyclist...

 

 

yup

[Nzy]

 

woohoo... does this mean that when i knock into a chao angmo cyclist hiding in my blindspot, he is equally at fault for staying there?

 

Wrong. Should have seen what she said. She suggested that there should be heavier penalties for drivers who get into accidents with cyclists or pedestrians.

Edited November 4, 2014 by Nzy

[gasman]

Rather than forcing registration plates on cyclists, which will never work here, im hoping for more added safety features on bicycles eg side view mirror & re-education on road safety & manners.

I still see cyclists plugging on their earphone while cycling. Tap lightly horn they cant hear. Tap loudly they think we're the aggressors.

 

[inlinesix]

a) Because they cannot always be where an offence is committed

b) It helps when they make REAL EFFORT to act through penalties or perhaps recommend laws for e.g. requiring registration of bicycles to be eligible for use on public roads etc. upon receiving a complaints

I have nothing against cyclists who are responsible but not those who are careless and reckless

 

 

I hardly see any TP around. Last wk, the traffic light at Raffles ave & Temasek ave is down (blinking yellow lights). There is no TP in sight. I have to call 999 hor.

 

I have been cycling on pedestrian pavement since Dec 2006 along Geylang Lor 1 daily to work. I only got warning by police in 2014. That's 8 yr late le.

 

[Neutralsg]

The praise Is for your civic mindedness. Hence, it helps to do our part as member of the community whenever we can for the greater good.

 

I hardly see any TP around. Last wk, the traffic light at Raffles ave & Temasek ave is down (blinking yellow lights). There is no TP in sight. I have to call 999 hor.

 

I have been cycling on pedestrian pavement since Dec 2006 along Geylang Lor 1 daily to work. I only got warning by police in 2014. That's 8 yr late le.

 

[SGCMWhiteKnight]

Live and let live.

The cyclist was watching if the driver gave way before cross, he's obviously wrong, but its a minor inconvenience. No big deal lah.

[BabyBlade]

http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/cyclist-cuts-across-4-lanes-rages-driver-20141205

 

TO THE horror of some motorists, a cyclist cut across four lanes amid the morning rush-hour traffic on Wednesday. He also taunted a female motorist who honked her horn at him. This comes after several incidents of cyclists behaving badly this year.

An accountant, who wanted to be known only as Ms Huang, 35, provided Lianhe Wanbao with video footage from her in-car camera, which caught the cyclist in the act.

The clip shows Ms Huang's car driving along Ophir Road at around 9am. After passing Raffles Hospital, the cyclist in office wear - long-sleeved shirt and pants - is seen riding in front of the car and cutting across four lanes, despite there being other vehicles on the road, reported Wanbao.

Within seconds, the cyclist moves from the leftmost lane to the rightmost lane. On the right lane, the cyclist wobbles at times. To avoid hitting him, a grey car brakes suddenly.

At one point, the clip also shows Ms Huang's car reaching a junction with the cyclist in front and to the right. She sounds her horn to alert the cyclist, who moves to the right to avoid her car, before repeatedly turning back to look at Ms Huang.

After staring at her, he cycles in front of her car and starts shouting, causing Ms Huang to jam on the brakes.

Ms Huang told Wanbao that she initially did not want to react to the cyclist. But after seeing him riding recklessly and very close to her car, she was worried for his safety. So, she decided to sound her horn to alert him.

"But I didn't expect him to be so overbearing. He stared at me and raised his voice to scold me. He was clearly trying to provoke me," she said.

Ms Huang added that when the incident happened, it was during the peak period, so traffic was heavy. The cyclist was "playing with his life" by riding recklessly, she said.

The incident follows other instances of badly behaved cyclists. Wanbao reported in August that a cyclist in Bedok crashed into a 58-year-old woman before telling her: "This is not your grandfather's road."

In February, The Straits Times reported that a Caucasian cyclist was caught on camera taunting and gesturing rudely at a driver along Thomson Road. The video was uploaded on Facebook nine days later and, within a week, police launched an appeal on social media for information on the cyclist to help investigations into a possible traffic offence.

In the same month, Wanbao reported that a Caucasian cyclist got into an argument with a 60-year-old woman in Loyang and later broke her car mirror. The woman reported to the police.

According to the police, there has been a rise in the number of cyclists who break traffic rules. In 2012, there were 1,290 cases, but last year, the figure was 1,407, a 9 per cent increase.

If cyclists ride recklessly or cycle on pedestrian walkways, the police can take action and charge them with breaking traffic rules. They could be fined $20 if found guilty.

 

 

 

$20 will hardly be enough to deter anyone.

[Nzy]

http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/cyclist-cuts-across-4-lanes-rages-driver-20141205

 

TO THE horror of some motorists, a cyclist cut across four lanes amid the morning rush-hour traffic on Wednesday. He also taunted a female motorist who honked her horn at him. This comes after several incidents of cyclists behaving badly this year.

An accountant, who wanted to be known only as Ms Huang, 35, provided Lianhe Wanbao with video footage from her in-car camera, which caught the cyclist in the act.

The clip shows Ms Huang's car driving along Ophir Road at around 9am. After passing Raffles Hospital, the cyclist in office wear - long-sleeved shirt and pants - is seen riding in front of the car and cutting across four lanes, despite there being other vehicles on the road, reported Wanbao.

Within seconds, the cyclist moves from the leftmost lane to the rightmost lane. On the right lane, the cyclist wobbles at times. To avoid hitting him, a grey car brakes suddenly.

At one point, the clip also shows Ms Huang's car reaching a junction with the cyclist in front and to the right. She sounds her horn to alert the cyclist, who moves to the right to avoid her car, before repeatedly turning back to look at Ms Huang.

After staring at her, he cycles in front of her car and starts shouting, causing Ms Huang to jam on the brakes.

Ms Huang told Wanbao that she initially did not want to react to the cyclist. But after seeing him riding recklessly and very close to her car, she was worried for his safety. So, she decided to sound her horn to alert him.

"But I didn't expect him to be so overbearing. He stared at me and raised his voice to scold me. He was clearly trying to provoke me," she said.

Ms Huang added that when the incident happened, it was during the peak period, so traffic was heavy. The cyclist was "playing with his life" by riding recklessly, she said.

The incident follows other instances of badly behaved cyclists. Wanbao reported in August that a cyclist in Bedok crashed into a 58-year-old woman before telling her: "This is not your grandfather's road."

In February, The Straits Times reported that a Caucasian cyclist was caught on camera taunting and gesturing rudely at a driver along Thomson Road. The video was uploaded on Facebook nine days later and, within a week, police launched an appeal on social media for information on the cyclist to help investigations into a possible traffic offence.

In the same month, Wanbao reported that a Caucasian cyclist got into an argument with a 60-year-old woman in Loyang and later broke her car mirror. The woman reported to the police.

According to the police, there has been a rise in the number of cyclists who break traffic rules. In 2012, there were 1,290 cases, but last year, the figure was 1,407, a 9 per cent increase.

If cyclists ride recklessly or cycle on pedestrian walkways, the police can take action and charge them with breaking traffic rules. They could be fined $20 if found guilty.

 

 

 

$20 will hardly be enough to deter anyone.

 

That $20 is for pedestrian walkways. On the roads I dunno what will happen.

Edited December 5, 2014 by Nzy

[Sabian]

Waiting for some fxxker to come and say," Why must horn?"

[Darryn]

Would love to see the video...

 

http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/cyclist-cuts-across-4-lanes-rages-driver-20141205

 

TO THE horror of some motorists, a cyclist cut across four lanes amid the morning rush-hour traffic on Wednesday. He also taunted a female motorist who honked her horn at him. This comes after several incidents of cyclists behaving badly this year.

An accountant, who wanted to be known only as Ms Huang, 35, provided Lianhe Wanbao with video footage from her in-car camera, which caught the cyclist in the act.

The clip shows Ms Huang's car driving along Ophir Road at around 9am. After passing Raffles Hospital, the cyclist in office wear - long-sleeved shirt and pants - is seen riding in front of the car and cutting across four lanes, despite there being other vehicles on the road, reported Wanbao.

Within seconds, the cyclist moves from the leftmost lane to the rightmost lane. On the right lane, the cyclist wobbles at times. To avoid hitting him, a grey car brakes suddenly.

At one point, the clip also shows Ms Huang's car reaching a junction with the cyclist in front and to the right. She sounds her horn to alert the cyclist, who moves to the right to avoid her car, before repeatedly turning back to look at Ms Huang.

After staring at her, he cycles in front of her car and starts shouting, causing Ms Huang to jam on the brakes.

Ms Huang told Wanbao that she initially did not want to react to the cyclist. But after seeing him riding recklessly and very close to her car, she was worried for his safety. So, she decided to sound her horn to alert him.

"But I didn't expect him to be so overbearing. He stared at me and raised his voice to scold me. He was clearly trying to provoke me," she said.

Ms Huang added that when the incident happened, it was during the peak period, so traffic was heavy. The cyclist was "playing with his life" by riding recklessly, she said.

The incident follows other instances of badly behaved cyclists. Wanbao reported in August that a cyclist in Bedok crashed into a 58-year-old woman before telling her: "This is not your grandfather's road."

In February, The Straits Times reported that a Caucasian cyclist was caught on camera taunting and gesturing rudely at a driver along Thomson Road. The video was uploaded on Facebook nine days later and, within a week, police launched an appeal on social media for information on the cyclist to help investigations into a possible traffic offence.

In the same month, Wanbao reported that a Caucasian cyclist got into an argument with a 60-year-old woman in Loyang and later broke her car mirror. The woman reported to the police.

According to the police, there has been a rise in the number of cyclists who break traffic rules. In 2012, there were 1,290 cases, but last year, the figure was 1,407, a 9 per cent increase.

If cyclists ride recklessly or cycle on pedestrian walkways, the police can take action and charge them with breaking traffic rules. They could be fined $20 if found guilty.

 

 

 

$20 will hardly be enough to deter anyone.

 

[Jman888]

i read some where that a friend of Ms Huang offer $5000 to CSI the ang mo