{"id":61,"date":"2008-09-04T22:01:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T22:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-09-04T22:01:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T22:01:06","slug":"got-to-get-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Got to Get Past!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it on the roads today?<\/p>\n<p>Everyone seems to <strong>have<\/strong> to overtake.<\/p>\n<p>I decided (as I&#8217;m tired) to take it easy today, while on my fixie on my ride into work, in London, from Chelsea to the City.\u00a0 As I wasn&#8217;t trying to keep up with traffic as much as possible, I vowed to try and just go with the flow.\u00a0 I noticed the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cars would overtake and immediately slam on the brakes to avoid hitting the car in front<\/li>\n<li>Fellow cyclists would undertake me (because I prefer to NOT hug the kerb) at lights (forcing me to overtake them two seconds later)<\/li>\n<li>Moped and motorbike riders regularly use the bike lanes to creep ahead at lights<\/li>\n<li>I won&#8217;t even mention the scum that cycle through red lights (oops! I just did!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of these road users got absolutely nowhere compared to my relaxed riding today; I&#8217;d meet and \/ or overtake the same people over and over.<\/p>\n<p>Why are we so obsessed with overtaking on the roads in the UK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it on the roads today? Everyone seems to have to overtake. I decided (as I&#8217;m tired) to take it easy today, while on my fixie on my ride into work, in London, from Chelsea to the City.\u00a0 As I wasn&#8217;t trying to keep up with traffic as much as possible, I vowed to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=61\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Got to Get Past!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}