Just nipped out to get some luncheon, and saw one of those all too common examples of cyclists riding with absolutely no conception of danger.
A left turning artic pulled slowly away from the lights, swung right and began his left turn. Nice and slow. First one, then a second cyclist nipped up his inside and he stopped hard making the whole truck wobble in a rather disconcerting way. He also stalled.
So with a truck stranded half way through a tight left turn a steady stream of cyclists and scooteristas start going up his inside, making it impossible for him to continue his turn. Much beeping had begun now, and to make things worse, the lights changed and he was blocking traffic that wanted to cross the junction from the left.
After a lot of beeping, and some shouting from irate drivers (who had by now pulled forwards, blocking him from completing his turn) they hitched up onto the pavement to clear enough room to let him finish turning, after a couple of rlj cyclists had nipped up his inside for good measure.
I just wouldn't put myself up the inside of a truck, especially at that point, and especially if it was clearly turning left. The driver was on the ball, and just rather unlucky, but I was amazed (I shouldn't be by now, but hey ho) at the sheep like behaviour of the cyclists who couldn't wait for a few seconds.
The crowning glory, was the total ignoral of one of those yellow 'don't cycle up the left' stickers on the back of the truck.
I've tried explaining the danger to cyclists before, stopped at TLs, if I've just watched them do something moronic and been met with hostility or occasionally a glimmer of understanding.
I feel the need to start repeating "something must be done!" as I don't really know how to get the message across. Getting truck drivers in on the whole not killing cyclists on their left is gathering momentum slowly, but still happens way too much, but somehow, cyclists must be made to realise that putting themselves there is really bad too.
