CamThat was an interesting lunch ride into town. I saw a truck driver texting as he pulled up to a T intersection that I was passing, a bus hit the bike lane separator, a meals for wheels van park on the footpath / bike lane, was wondering if they saw me or if I was about to get doored. In the bright side there were more bikes than cars heading down Bowen Street with me. #wellington #cyclewellington #biketooter
I didn't have any close calls or anything, I just don't usually see this much "interesting" driving, especially since they were all "professional" drivers. I would think texting while driving a truck would be a pretty fast way of losing your licence. There was a case recently where a truck driver on their phone rear ended a car, killed a couple of people and got a few years jail time.
The ride home was much less eventful, lots of bikes out. There were 5 passing the botans at the point where Cr Calvert was posting photos of empty bike lanes to social media last week (there were also no cars on the road at the time 😂 )