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Who has right of way at the junction of Lordship Lane / Zenoria Road?


Specifically, if a cyclist wants to turn left onto Lordship Lane from Zenoria Road, would they have right of way over a pedestrian wanting to walk across the junction?


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An incident earlier today has left me thoroughly confused, so thanks in advance!


Rowan

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Depends who is on the road, if the bike is coming down to turn left then like with a car you wouldn't step out in front of it. Likewise if a pedestrian is already crossing then any vehicle coming down should allow them the chance to cross.

Probably if there's been a disagreement then both parties are likely to feel they had the right of way.

any traffic should always give way to pedestrians- this includes cyclists- this however does not mean that pedestrians can randomly step out and exercise this .


What happened ? I am assuming someone was crossing and male weekend cyclist in full lycra kicked off at hapeless pedestrian

I was cycling down Zenoria Road, preparing to turn left onto Lordship Lane. A family decided to cross in front of me, despite seeing me coming (or not checking ? the junction approach is very straight so you couldn?t have missed me).

Anyway, I slowed and let them cross, probably looking a little "grumpy face" at them, though I would never have said anything? the mother then turns to me, explains she is a cyclist too, and tells me to go and read the Highway Code!


She also insinuated the red brick paving at this junction denotes pedestrian right of way, which was news to me! Is this the case? I certainly can?t find it anywhere in the Highway Code!


She was really shirty, considering they'd decided to cross in front of a slow and courteous cyclist? it all felt very unnecessary.


Anyway, nevermind, and thanks all for clarifying!

I do recall reading that a raised (usually red) platform indicates a pedestrian crossing when they were being installed around work but this was when lots of traffic calming experiments were being brought in there like no/minimal road markings too. I thought the idea was that it should slow traffic at the junction and potentially make it easier for pedestrians to cross.


However, at most it should act like a zebra crossing where pedestrians should only step out if safe to do so but once on the crossing have the right of way. I suspect if you had been a car, the family may not have crossed but as a slower cyclist, expected you would be able to stop so it was safe to do so. As a fellow cyclist, I probably would have been more considerate and let you pass first as I appreciate it is a bit more effort to start from a standstill on a bike than it is as a pedestrian to put one foot in front of the other.


I'd also suggest that from a road safety point of view, it's probably safer to teach kids to wait until nothing is coming since they can't judge speed and stopping distances until quite a bit older.

Curmudgeon - thanks for your comment.


I probably haven't explained what happened very well; I do know to stop at double lines at a junction.


It was more that they were happy to step out and cross in front of traffic - fine - but please don't make up new Highway Code rules! Unless of course, those raised red brick areas do denote pedestrian right of way?


Regardless, her attitude stank.

Surely not.


A pedestrian has right of way over vehicles turning into the road if you are already in the process of crossing. But in this instance the traffic is coming down the street you want to cross. Surely the traffic has right of way there otherwise you could just step out into any road at any time and expect cars to stop?

She probably didn't realise that cyclists can ride down this - otherwise one-way - street towards Lordship Lane. It can be confusing for both pedestrians and vehicle drivers and cyclists riding against the normal flow of traffic probably need to recognise that likely confusion.


However, it is wrong to say that traffic (vehicle driver or cyclist) has to stop at give way lines. They don't. They do however have to check it's safe to pull out and give way to any traffic coming from the right. If those lines at the end of the cycle lane were solid then then cyclists would be required to stop. Also, the raised cushions with red bricks are not pedestrian crossings, they are effectively road humps which can be walked on.

vicki08 yes, a pedestrian MUST check the road is safe to cross at a junction but once deemed safe, ie no vehicles within close proximity, then they have right way. If you simply step into the road then if you get hit, you are (the pedestrian) is at fault. Common sense rule really

@OP

It's probably more useful to think of it as who has priority rather than right of way.

In the scenario u gave u have priority if the pedestrians have not started crossing.

However pedestrians often walk out in front of cyclists even if you've signalled and made eye contact.

The law is designed to protect vulnerable road users and even if pedestrians do the most stupid things you must do everything you can to avoid an accident

Beulah Wrote:

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> @OP

> It's probably more useful to think of it as who

> has priority rather than right of way.

> In the scenario u gave u have priority if the

> pedestrians have not started crossing.

> However pedestrians often walk out in front of

> cyclists even if you've signalled and made eye

> contact.

> The law is designed to protect vulnerable road

> users and even if pedestrians do the most stupid

> things you must do everything you can to avoid an

> accident


I think it's pretty obvious that you need to stop, instead of colliding with the pedestrians! I don't think anybody's suggesting otherwise. Doesn't mean that we should all start stepping out into the road in front of vehicles though.

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