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Near Miss of the Day 660: Cyclist forced to ride in coned off section of roadworks for safety
“It is a regular thing in Cheshire and Manchester for Cadent Gas to not leave enough time for cyclists at a set of roadworks,” says road.cc reader Bob, who as a result was forced to ride in the coned off section for safety, as highlighted in the above video he sent in for our Near Miss of the Day feature.
“They cone off a long section of road, presumably for the safety of their workers, but they don't give cyclists enough time to get through,” he explained.
Contacting the company didn’t do much good, either, with Bob saying: “Last time I complained they just put up ‘Cyclist Dismount’ signs.
“Here is a video of their latest effort near Tatton Park in Cheshire, which seems unchanged since I passed it a week ago, except more cones have been demolished,” he continued.
“I seem to be only halfway through when cars start coming the other way.
“I went into the coned off section for safety.
“Note that they are not working at the site,” he added.
> Near Miss of the Day turns 100 - Why do we do the feature and what have we learnt from it?
Over the years road.cc has reported on literally hundreds of close passes and near misses involving badly driven vehicles from every corner of the country – so many, in fact, that we’ve decided to turn the phenomenon into a regular feature on the site. One day hopefully we will run out of close passes and near misses to report on, but until that happy day arrives, Near Miss of the Day will keep rolling on.
If you’ve caught on camera a close encounter of the uncomfortable kind with another road user that you’d like to share with the wider cycling community please send it to us at info [at] road.cc or send us a message via the road.cc Facebook page.
If the video is on YouTube, please send us a link, if not we can add any footage you supply to our YouTube channel as an unlisted video (so it won't show up on searches).
Please also let us know whether you contacted the police and if so what their reaction was, as well as the reaction of the vehicle operator if it was a bus, lorry or van with company markings etc.
> What to do if you capture a near miss or close pass (or worse) on camera while cycling
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Sock puppet reply I'd say.
I wonder whether Flintshire Boy and Our Nige might even be one and the same person, away from the keyboard...
Not unreasonable if there's only one opinion and a hype man. In that case a band name would be appropriate.
To be fair I did see a couple of posts from Flintshire which did appear to express an opinion (on driver retesting) the other day - could have been parody though. I'd got so use to the "yeah!", "ain't that right!" and "lame lefties!" from him.
"Kevin"? You are seriously equating people on this forum calling you out for being a gobshite with racism?
Did he choose that name at random or to align himself with racists in cricket? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59304381
Definitely the latter, though not to align himself with racists (though we all know full well he would be right at home with their "banter") but, unbelievably, to claim that being told he's a gobshite by virtually everone on this forum is somehow equivalent to racial oppression. Staggering.
Aren't they Minions (as in Despicable Me)?
That's Bob not Boo
We need to talk about Kevin?
Up?
harry enfield ?
You're right; my mistake. Boo was the little girl in Monsters Inc.
(OT - but the opening few minutes or so of Despicable Me is something I can watch over and over, when Gru is being Evil. Freeze ray in the Starbucks queue - comedy gold...).
Surely the most famous Boo is Boo Radley from "To Kill a Mocking Bird". Still one of my favourite books.
Nah - it's the one from Yogi Bear.
The one in Yogi Bear is so good they named him twice.
That reminds me - I actually saw a matter boo-boo the other day.
Go on then, I'll oblige: what's a matter boo-boo?
And is it related to a matteryoohey?
I've never read it. It's one of those books I probably 'ought' to read someday...
Racist Boo, is because it is the same gobshite poster from last year, Boomoogoo or whatever the long name is whose posts and account all disappeared whilst making a racist joke or two. That person also had a fetish to ban any more then 6 cyclists, ban TT bikes, a fantasy that President Spanky was best and seemed to claim that cyclists were at fault for most things. Also some lesser agreements like similar views on Cycling Mikey.
When I first confronted Nige, he denied it. Then recently he seemed to cop to it by first stating he had "chatted" with the Racist Boo person and that it wasn't banned, just a voluntary deletion?? Hmmm right.
Not sure about Kevin though.
And I don't think Flintshire is Boo/Nige. Just that as most on here are one side of the Political spectrum, and the those two (plus a few more less trolling ones) are the other, FB deems he has to be on Boo's side on everything. Unfortunately this means he will pop up like today with "good point" without answering anything else when asked, either because he is trolling or realises he didn't agree with boo really but felt duty bound to support him no matter what. Seems strange being as Racist Boo is being full on troll now and FB seems to be agreeing that all cyclists (including himself maybe) jump red lights. I suppose we will know more about FB's motives if he agrees on Boo on his latest trolling that (no evidence for) fat cyclist caused the close pass with the horsebox.
Oh, right - I remember that anti-TT commenter. Booboomajoo, in my memory. Really hated TT bars, or something?
TBH there've been so many 'trolls' of varying kinds on here, who've been and gone over the years... Remember 'L. Willo'?, or 'Superpython'? Some of them made good points, long arguments, were in it for the argument rather than necessarily being Ubertrolls, but we've had lesser ones who are just @#%!""!
booboojmooj
TT bikes were a danger to pedestrians
Then they went full on Victim Trolling here
https://road.cc/content/news/tt-rider-seriously-injured-a11-284881#block...
but the mods removed posts after complaints
Found it!
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/16/campaigners-warn-over-kevi...
I was about to say the exact same.
Strange that. I once stopped at a similar set of temporary lights on amber as one is meant to do. The van driver behind me unleashed a torrent of abuse at me for my audacity in doing so even though he would have had to run the red to get through as he drew up behind me as they turned red. No cheery wave or objective listening to my saying they were changing down. Just abuse, warnings that he would run me off the road and threats on my life. Got off the bike and waited a good 10minutes until he was well ahead.
Once had a van passenger try to grab my musette to unbalance me as we circled the (old) Elephant and Castle roundabout at high speed as punishment for the same "crime", slowing to stop on an amber. We obviously need to work on expressing our courtesy to those behind us, with Nige his courteous attitude clearly shines from every orifice and calms the angriest drivers as they bathe in its golden glow.
Don't forget the abject grovelling for deterring them on their journey and the deferential doffing of one's headgear as they pass!
Nasty!
As in...
Although it shouldn't matter as the roads should cater for all, but I'd be interested in the speed of the cyclist as it seemed slow. I usually get my highest heart rate during those sort of sections as I race to beat the oncoming traffic for that very reason.
Surely "if you sprint at them you'll find they're more frightened of you than vice-versa"?
It's not always possible and why should you have to anyway ?
I remember so many times where I've been absolutely cooked after a long ride coming across one of these types of roadworks, or startig on a hill, even being 2-3 vehicles back starting, or finding its green as you approach and just knowing this is going to happen. It's bad enough trying to keep vehicles following you behind you let alone having to deal with the rest heading towards you, who I believe strictly speaking are supposed to wait till the road is clear before proceeding on green anyway.
That bit of road is a notorious drag.
Locally known as "Le Col du Tatton"
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