Cab gets my vote by default

[Grahamm]

I then asked about filtering straight through to the rear of the lead vehicle on the other side of the crossing but still within the zigzags and was told not to pass the crossing just incase a ped appears/decides to walk across and you cannot see them.....

Sure, were I to filter past the front vehicle at a crossing now, I would first make *absolutely* certain it was clear and that there was nobody about to step onto it. Provided there wasn't, I would proceed, but, any uncertainty, I'd stop and wait.

Actually this is useful to me as there's a road in Portsmouth which leads to the bottom of the M275 with a Pelican crossing on it where you get a lot of traffic stopped at the lights on the roundabout at the end and it backs up past the crossing.

It's an S-bend and you can see clearly across it and you don't get so much traffic coming the other way, so it's great for filtering up the queue.

Previously, though, I've often had to stop because there's been a car standing at the crossing and I couldn't legally filter past them, but now I know that if the crossing is clear (and I can see it is), I can proceed instead :thumbup