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recently whilst driving home through Hawick where the local council are upgrading flood defenses ( i think )
these works have a very long traffic controlled one way system in operation 
whilst waiting for the green light , a cyclist filtered to the front of the queue 
when the lights changed the cyclist set off casually and no one could pass him 
it took so long that the lights had changed and traffic from around the corner coming in the opposite direction had entered the one way system causing a jam 
at this point , the cyclist just hopped up the curb onto the footpath and carried on his journey , smiling as he turned to view the jam he had caused
as you can imagine a few choice words were muttered whilst the culprit sauntered merrily on his way  
could this cyclist have prevented this ? could he have dismounted and walked ? could he have hopped up the curb earlier onto the deserted foot path ?
my work involves lots of traveling (1k+ mls/wk is the norm ) and this is only one instance of the many crazy driving hazards encountered daily 

btw ... he is NOT paying tax for that bike , he maybe paying for other vehicles .. fine ... but he is NOT for that vehicle .. nore are ANY other cyclists 

obviously this is a one off 
but as stated , these seem to be getting more frequent in this health conscious era
i understand there will always be the 'bad apples' from time to time
but it seems that some cycling habits are in a similar category to other subjects where a counter argument is just not PC or allowed  

anyhow im getting off the box now 
just my 2p

kev