RobiNZ Personal Blog

Just because you are on a crossing, keep watching…

Red lights, cars stopped, green pedestrian and cycle crossing, all good, right? No!

It doesn't look so dramatic on the front camera (due to field of view). I let this run a bit longer so you can see the cars queuing across the bike lane trying to enter a gridlocked parking area. The second white one was actually trying to push into a space which wasn't there and looked mad a me for crossing their path!

But the rear view better represents what happened at the crossing and how close this near hit was.

Triangle Road, Massey, Auckland Chicken Run

It is astonishing how many cars are doing a head on "’chicken run’ down Triangle Road passing stationary traffic, on the wrong side of a double yellow ‘no passing’ line, crossing a two lane bridge with no means of escape. They must have a good job to be that desperate to get there…

Just to show this isn't a one-off here is a repeat performance from today.

* I don't use the bike lane down there unless there is traffic approaching from behind as it is rough, has a lip to the road and often covered in road debris.

MINI by BMW

Cycle lane | Tick

Green Light | Tick

Forget MINI are made by BMW, thus don't have functioning indicators | Tick

No harm done but could have been…

A QANTAS solar eclipse?

Cycling, waiting at the Takapuna lights, on a cloudless day…

And it went dark for a split second.

Looked up to see it was a QANTAS solar eclipse!

SH16 cycling near hit, still here thanks to rear view mirror

I nearly didn't go this way today, just to avoid crossing this SH16 roundabout, but traffic was light. Thankfully I saw a black car cutting across to do an illegal left turn (from the right/straight lane) in my "Take a Look" rear view mirror and, just, braked in time to avoid getting hit.

 

Front and rear Cycliq camera caught views of this incident, the gap was literally mm.