Aye aye, here we go again...

07:30...

Well, despite the baling wire, chewing gum, and the liberal application of a lump hammer, the traffic lights I mentioned yesterday as fixed, weren't. They stuck again this morning.

Wonder if a mini-roundabout is on the cards?

10:30...

Well, seems the engineer they sent to fix it this time might have known what he was doing, as the lights seemed to be behaving themselves, with the queue of traffic completely gone.

However, this was more than made up for by the queue of traffic at the western end of the route, due to road narrowing at the roadworks there. At least I was able to make the time up on the way back - allowing me to have my full meal break, not an abbreviated one, like yesterday!

12:34...

What day would be complete, without a two-wheeled potential organ donor? Yep, the idiot cyclists are out there again - this one, going downhill at 20mph, swerved into the middle of the road to prevent me from overtaking at 30mph. Dressed all in black, on a matt black pushbike, he was ready for the grim reaper, that's for certain. His gestures, however, were not. Matey, you're well lucky the bus had no forward-facing CCTV, that's all I'll say!

18:15...

Well, that's another shift over and done with. One more shift, and I've got a nice long weekend...

Some idle thoughts on tackling those two-wheeled potential organ donors...

The above brings up a couple of valid thoughts, though. Since cyclists have no:

• annual MoT examination
  
• Road Tax
• Insurance
• Licence to cycle
• And no registration plates either,
• And do NOT have to pass a cycling test...

...how come they are permitted to use the roads? Why, therefore, with so many unlicenced cycles on the roads, are we not seeing them seized by the Old Bill in that telly series "Road Wars", and stuffed into a crusher for having no insurance? Why are we not seeing whole regiments-worth of cyclists up before the Beak, getting fined to destitution for having no road tax, licence, insurance, MoT, and so on?

Come on, if the government wants to be serious about the Green Vote, then when they get rid of cars, they'll have to make up the loss in oil and tax revenues, so hey, target the cyclist - make those two wheel potential organ donors scream in pain from the wallet too

For once, Mr. Clarkson, I'm with you - ban the bike!