Cynic wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:48:07 +0100, JNugent wrote:
>
>>>>> It was the rule where I lived in South Africa some years ago.
>
>>>> Citation, please?
>>>> And do you mean the rule, or some sort of guidance?
>>> My memory of how we were instructed to cycle and how every other
>>> cyclist behaved - though there were dedicated cycle paths for most
>>> journies. I'm afraid that I was not collecting documents pertaining
>>> to the Road Trafic Act or other legal instruments in junior school.
>>> Do you really expect me to have any documentary proof from over 40
>>> years ago?
>> If you say it was the law - yes.
>> Well, not have themn, but at least be able to point to a source.
> Sorry that at the age of 12 I didn't foresee a newsgroup discussion
> taking place over 40 years later in which I would be tasked with
> proving something that was common knowlege at that time.
Yes, but discussion and argument cannot be satisfactorily conducted on
the basis that one party can remember a case which completely vnbdicates
his position but cannot reference it.
> I do not know whether it was part of the national law, or simply a
> local rule. At 12 there was not a big distinction between the two.
OK then... name one of the other several countries where it is the rule
at present or in the past. Try to find a referemnce to it. |