I know we all like to get to the front of a queue of traffic, but if ahead of that queue lies a yellow box junction then…
Don’t Do It!
Unless you want an £100 fine for the priviledge.
Just put this up today as a lot of bikers are going to be receiving a polite request for money in a few days time :rolleyes:
I never do.
Me neither, sod them yellow boxes.
Do London bus drivers get away with it though as i see countless TFL buses straddling the yellow kriss cross landing pads?
I can tell you 100% they do - however, sometimes the garages paid this. They changed that now so its the drivers that get the notice and not the operating companies…well…they pass it on if you know what i mean.
I don’t get this Afro!
If there’s a box junction ahead of the queue and you’re going straight ahead you just straight over it and carry on filtering on the other side right?! If you’re turning right then you can sit in the box junction anyway right?
Am I missing something?..
Yea thats the way i understand it as well, dont have a highway code handy but seem to remember tv adverts bout 20 yrs ago stating you only enter if your exit is clear and if we are going between the cars our exit will be clear.
I made that mistake last year, stopped at the edge of the box (past the actual junction it was supposed to be protecting) and got a photo of me that I had to pay 60 quid for :w00t:
Sneaky fooker in a CCTV van parked nearby (blocking a cycle lane judging by where the photo was taken from :ermm: )
You’re not one of those smart car commandos are ya Afro ??!
TBH, I think it would make more difference if the second PTW rider waited behind/alongside the first PTW rider when they got to a junction, instead of all the macho/silly/whatever folk who insist in pulling up ahead of you, when you’re there first, and then pootle along at snail’s pace and get in your way.
Fair do’s, if you pull up behind me, I’m checking you in my mirrors, and if it looks like you’re wanting to go faster than me, or dodge down a gap that I’m not happy with, then I’m looking to pull over for you and let you get on your way.
But do me the courtesy of letting me set of first. After all, we’re both going to get there faster than the cars; and if you’re going to be making more progress than me, then I’ll sit behind you at the next lights very happily.
We’ve got nothing to fall out about, but when you do it time after time, after bloody time, it does wear a little.
