What's your view on motorcyclists?

Motorcyclists can sometimes be ignored by car drivers on our roads, but the opposite also appears to be true if the photographic evidence from a queue of traffic outside the Meath Chronicle office yesterday is used as a gauge. 

A Meath Chronicle reader and browser on www.meathchronicle.ie submitted some very interesting photos that were taken as the traffic was stopped at a red light on the Kentstown road approaching the Meath Chronicle junction.

Up to half-a-dozen high-powered motorcycles moved out on to the wrong side of the road and made their way towards the front of the queue of traffic.

It appears, from the photographs, that they had very little regard for the rules of the road or other road users - which included some slow moving agricultural vehicles going in the opposite direction.

Once there was some clear road ahead of them they started to move off although the traffic light was still clearly red.

Not the best advertisement for people who use motorcycles, although the majority of motorcyclists are responsible road users and this group was probably representing the minority?

Conall Collier