Tuesday, March 20, 2007

You know what got into my nerve lately?
Cyclist.

I often see cyclist, cycling on the heavy traffic condition road, on the expressway and some even against the traffic. Cyclists should also give way to motorists. Most of the time, I see cyclists pedal even more quickly and dun give way to motorists turning left or right.

As a car driver, you expect the cyclist to obey the same traffic rules as you and that sort of allows you to anticipate the cyclist's path. But all hell breaks lose when you see a cyclist cycling against the traffic as its path becomes hard to predict. Some dangerous gung-ho cyclists even uses one hand to hold umbrella, the other hand to balance the bicycle, during heavy rain while on the road.

So long you are driving a car and you hit a pedestrian, you are in the wrong at the first place.

Our traffic police has long turned a blind eye to this offense to some extent. It is high time these traffic police get out of their air-con offices and nab the offenders.

When you want TP to catch cyclists who cycle against the flow of traffic, they are nowhere to be found. But when you want to cruise a bit faster on the expressway, there they are hiding behind a corner along the expressway shoulder, waiting to nab you.

I feel that cycling to be ban from both the roads and also pedestrian walkway. Cycling should only be treated as a sport, a leisure, not a form of transport.

Now whenever I see any cyclist, I drive just near enough and horn loudly to scare them. Hahahaha