[Watch the video in the article. To deal with the situation, Vine proposes breaking the law by moving ahead of the stop line. In the second incident,
the van driver behind Vine has hung back from the junction - if he can see
a legal solution, what is blinding Vine from seeing it? A Must Get In Front attitude? The engineering solution is to move the stop lines further back
down the road and put in box markings, but Vine instead advocates his law-breaking solution. Even van twErp disagrees with him. Cyclists, eh?]

Jeremy Vine tells cyclists it’s okay to sometimes break the law by crossing the white line at a red light to Stop move to a safer position… but
cyclists are divided if that’s the right thing to do

Another one for you readers to discuss and come to a consensus. This latest video in the long-running series titled ‘road.cc covering Jeremy Vine’s cycling exploits in London on the live blog’ (the title may need some shortening, will send a note to Jack) shows the BBC and Channel 5 presenter admittedly breaking a law by moving ahead of the white line at a red light
and arguing why doing so sometimes can actually be safer for you.

“Heading for the lights, and here I am just behind the stop line. But I’ve seen the bus, so I’m moving. I worry this is breaking the law,” he says in the video, as he approaches a red light and comes to a halt on the
right-hand side of a van.

As he sees a bus turning from the junction ahead, with nowhere to go he
decides to instead go ahead of the van and thus cross the white line to position himself in a safer position. The bodywork of the bus does spill
over the white line dividing the two lanes, and Vine says: “That’s an example of why you might want to be forward of the line here.”

He shows another instance from the same day of a truck driver turning right
and completely cutting across the cycle box at the traffic light, and most certainly hitting a cyclist if someone had been there.

Vine adds: “I took the decision to be forward of the line to avoid being in their path and that’s 100 per cent right.”

However on a rare instance, CyclingMikey seemed to disagree with Vine, replying: “It's a technical RLJ, and I think it's better to avoid doing
this. I would sit one car back or filter back to the nearside, generally.
I'm not massively bothered though I do notice often people who do this then sometimes can't see the change of traffic lights.”

What do you think, is Vine right to make himself safer by crossing the
white line (he’s not actually going through the red light), or is there a better way to keep safe and not put yourself in such a situation in the
first place? Let me know in the comments!

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