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Bmwdumptruck

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might be worth a signiture and pass it on

 

pooh and xtine

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Definitely! Ridiculous, unnecessary legislation, impossible to police. It’s as bad as the latest change to the Highway Code which gives priority to pedestrians crossing at the junction of a minor road. If you’re turning off a main road into a minor road, pedestrians don’t even have to look to cross the minor road because they’ve right of way over all vehicular traffic. You’ve to stop on the main road and wait for them to cross before you turn into the minor road. Rear end shunts, anyone?
 

One-S

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Well, there's some logic in that (the Code giving pedestrians crossing....). Pedestratians are "traffic", and since they follow the main road, one has to give them right of way when turning. In Belgium and and the Netherlands (possibly in other European countries too), the same applies for bicycles: you have to give them right of way when they cross a minor road and you turn off. I think it is safer that way for what we call "vulnerable road users". Anyway, after so many years it seems logic to us, and weird that this is implemented only now in your country. A matter of "getting used to it" I guess.
 

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