I've now lived in Manchester for around 10 weeks or so. Daily I cycle up and down one of the main feeder roads into the city. Each morning the single lane roads turn into double land roads close to the lights, however, I now notice more and more that a huge number of cars simply over take the queue when the lights aren't even in sight!
For example, today a C70 went around the outside of cars sat about 150metres from the lights, close to the lights people were in two lanes (one for turning right etc.) It was an overtaking manoeuvre, after he had gone past 4 cars and a little space appear behind a bus, he snuck in there. Every minute I see similar, people pushing into the queue.
Don't get me wrong, I know that there's a time and a place for such behaviour (I.e at lights when it helps traffic flow) but these people (often 4x4s, BMWs, Golfs - how stereotyping am I being) just seem to have no regard for anybody else and go around everybody (to the extent of being on the wrong side of the road).
If everybody had this mentality, the roads would be useless to use and it really pisses me off TBH! As a cyclist sometimes I am forced to go on the outside of cars which in Nottingham is fine in traffic if necessary, in Manchester I have been overtaken overtaking cars several times, facing a dangerous situation when they face on coming traffic and remember they are on the wrong side of the road pushing the queue.
If it happened in a shop, the person would be sneered at and IME, told to join the back of the queue again, but people in cars get away with it. Does anybody else face this and/or agree that this is madness?
For example, today a C70 went around the outside of cars sat about 150metres from the lights, close to the lights people were in two lanes (one for turning right etc.) It was an overtaking manoeuvre, after he had gone past 4 cars and a little space appear behind a bus, he snuck in there. Every minute I see similar, people pushing into the queue.
Don't get me wrong, I know that there's a time and a place for such behaviour (I.e at lights when it helps traffic flow) but these people (often 4x4s, BMWs, Golfs - how stereotyping am I being) just seem to have no regard for anybody else and go around everybody (to the extent of being on the wrong side of the road).
If everybody had this mentality, the roads would be useless to use and it really pisses me off TBH! As a cyclist sometimes I am forced to go on the outside of cars which in Nottingham is fine in traffic if necessary, in Manchester I have been overtaken overtaking cars several times, facing a dangerous situation when they face on coming traffic and remember they are on the wrong side of the road pushing the queue.
If it happened in a shop, the person would be sneered at and IME, told to join the back of the queue again, but people in cars get away with it. Does anybody else face this and/or agree that this is madness?
