RLJ WVM

Bassjunkieuk
Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
edited September 2008 in Commuting chat
This one was mind boggling.......

Coming home along Streatham High Road I filter down through the queue and line up at the front in between WVM and a bus. For anyone familiar with the area this is the set of lights by the bingo hall or cinema near the Lidl's with the yellow box.
Lights are red so everyone is stopped and then for some reason WVM decides he doesn't want to wait and has spotted a gap just big enough to get his stupid white tin box into to drives straight across :evil:

I looked around and double checked that the lights hadn't changed and indeed they are still on red, so it was a full on RLJ!

The lights turned green and the traffic on opposite side of the yellow box hadn't moved much so the rest of the traffic stayed put as I pulled round the outside to see if he was on his phone or something. As I rode past I could see his window was slightly open so I yelled "No like the red light!" and just got a smirk. Unfortunately I didn't think to get the company name or reg plate and by the time I thought of it I was already speeding down the lil' hill past the station whilst he was a few hundred yards back in the queue still!

And all this while I thought cyclist's where meant to be the RLJer's.......
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    I have seen a LOT of motorists jump the lights. Usually its the "speed and squeeze through - theres still time...!" after its just gone red, but I have seen drivers check at junctions and just drive on, esp in evenings.

    I often feel they have some nerve to go on about us, when weirdly I never see RLJs on bikes (perhaps due to the times I use the bike). :?
  • karl j
    karl j Posts: 517
    Ah yes but he pays tax so it's ok
    Morning route (when i don't get the train)

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  • karl j
    karl j Posts: 517
    No, seriously, it's not ok at all is it. As DF says above the Speed & Squeeze brigade, esp in the evening are a real menace.
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  • karl j
    karl j Posts: 517
    I suppose i should go on and say how it reminds me of something...


    ... a (private hire) taxi in Norwich the other evening RLJ'd across ( Riversisde Road / Prince of Wales Road) lights but didn't have enough clear road to get out of the way when the lights changed in our favour. So the entire length of PoW Rd just had to sit and wait there for Mr Muppet to eventually get enough clear road to allow the junction to move. But there you go, i don't suppose things'll change any time soon.
    Morning route (when i don't get the train)

    Evening route ,
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    karl j wrote:
    I suppose i should go on and say how it reminds me of something...


    ... a (private hire) taxi in Norwich the other evening RLJ'd across ( Riversisde Road / Prince of Wales Road) lights but didn't have enough clear road to get out of the way when the lights changed in our favour. So the entire length of PoW Rd just had to sit and wait there for Mr Muppet to eventually get enough clear road to allow the junction to move. But there you go, i don't suppose things'll change any time soon.

    Thats a shame people didnt wind down their windows and clap at the guy, as they did last year when some silly woman cut up a stationary white van waiting in traffic.The funniest thing I ever saw :lol:

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