May 17, 2004
Road Block
I have two main ways to work - the 'back' way and the 'front' way. There are also combinations of the two, as going to the same place for 2.5 years can get a little wearing.
On my way to work I go past an increasing number of blocked off roads. Increasing because, as London slowly wakes up to the murder and hell that is the selfish domain of the evil car, it is beginning to curb and channel where cars can go in an attempt to make the city an less polluted and more people friendly city.
The blocked off road in this picture is sufficiently low to allow emergency vehicles to traverse it when neccessary. I doesn't fail to amaze me each time I see a regular, low slung car decide that this short cut will save them so much time and effort that a scraped bottom of the car doesn't matter. They lumber ever so slowly over the obstacle in what appears to be the most blatant breaking of road laws to me.
Now, as a cyclist I'm not immune from breaking many road laws for good or for bad. But somehow driving over a slab of concrete designed to segregate a road seems to show an amazing disregard for road law and an arrogance that only a motor vehicle driver could display.
In all my amazment and disgust however, I am rather unsure as to how a car driver feels when I ride through a red traffic light in front of them. Is this a similar level of disregard and arrogance? What do you think? Comment below.
Posted by tom at May 17, 2004 10:13 AM | TrackBack