howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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of course ian, goes without saying.
bern
funnily enough after taking that shot early this morning i had reason to negotiate the pavement of pencester road that is fairly narrow.
just outside of marks and spencer's side entrance there is a litter bin(rare i know) so it is purely one way pedestrian traffic.
just as i passed it i felt something touch my side, it was the handlebar of a bicycle that decided to overtake me!!
in fairness i have to say that the lady was going slow enough not to injure anybody and apologised profusely sadly she then proceeded to do the same to the pedestrian in front of me.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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I turned from Ladywell into the High St this morning and narrowly missed a cyclist who was wandering across the road as he was looking at the burnt out church - going the wrong way.
I was still shaking when I narrowly missed a pedestrian kamikazing across London Road between the traffic - Hi Terry!
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Who is deleting all these postings ? Is it the poster or the Editor/Assistant Editor ?
First we had Jacqui's, now Ian's.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not me guv, i deleted one 2 days ago, since then there has been a rash of people deleting their own.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I think we will find that Ian done it himself.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
wish i had a post to delete
lol
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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Sorry people, I deleted my own post.
Some subjects do completely wind me up and I posted some comments I should not have.
It was not directed at any forumites but to the idiots that live around us.
By now I have a feeling I would have been an ex member.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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You can still put a good point over by useing other words.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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I did use other words Vic. Naughty ones.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that is the benefit of being able to delete our own posts, we all go off on one at times then when we see it in print want to get rid.
Blimey, I know! Have done the same myself! I just wish I had seen Ians post before it was cleaned up!! However, I can probably make a stab at it - much as I wish I had done at that blinking cyclist...........
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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having seen a friend cross(without looking) at ladywell from the high street to go towards london road, and get knocked down, and seriously injured, andsince sadly died, I often wonder why people at that crossing don't look behind them at traffic coming from that direction and turning right into ladywell.
thats abad corner, as is the one at bridge street where i have seen so many near misses.
usually because peestrians just cross without looking.
often it's not the car drivers fault.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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couldn't agree more keith. i look on in astonishment at the number of people that cross there without looking.
how there have not been fatalities there is bewildering.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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My gripe is people who ride thier bike into the waiting room at the Train Station and onto the platform.The station is full of children and old people.I also shout can you push your bike please and normally get a load of verbal.
So when they come over to ask me something I pretend I can't hear them,so they repeat themselves and I say sorry you ignored me so I am ignoring you,I asked you to get off your bike and you chose not to listen.Then I tell them of a story that happened at Walmer Station where someone rode thier bike onto the platform and over the platform in front of a train that killed him.
The other day I saw someone who rode thier bike across the waiting room and up the slope to the toilets nearly clipping a young child,although I shouted at him he still rode his bike back round the semi blind corner and over a elderly womans foot.She hit him with her umbrella but the look on the man's face was worth seeing
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i have seen them do that john, best do as bern suggested in a previous post and stick something through the spokes.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Well done that lady.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Early this afternoon when coming out of Morrison's car-park, there were about 6 or 8 cyclists from some (cycling) club, cycling on the pavement towards Bridge Street. Cars were having a problem with them when trying to turn into the car-park, but they seemed oblivious to the aggravation they were causing.
Earlier, when turning right into Ladywell, with the lights green of course and my indicators on, I was surprised to see about three guys eating burger and chips just crossing the road, walking right in front of me.
I had to toot the guy in front as he was about to get run over, he did jump and his chips went in the air. They must have known there were traffic lights, but just carried on walking - their food being more important than their safety.
People just don't seem to care.
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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That is what really annoys me when cyclists are on the pavement going against the one way system. There is no excuse it is just pure lawbreaking it makes me so
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
you do expect organised cycle clubs to be responsible, not always so.
last summer a group of between 30 and 40 dutch cyclists rode through the centre on a saturday morning, beggars belief.