I wonder does it ever dawn on them that a bell would solve this problem?
Isn’t it the law that all bikes be fitted with a bell?
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Folks
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Brendan
Isn’t it the law that all bikes be fitted with a bell?
I hate using cycle paths that are on/ beside footpaths. I find them dangerous as people let their dog s and their children wander onto them.
Cyclists should be aware of what side of the road they should be on, i.e. what direction they should be travelling in when they are using the cycle path.
You make a very good point here purple. I could also add that there is often much confusion between cycle lanes and walking tracks. A classic example of that are the cycle lanes along the main road in the Phoenix Park, Chesterfield Avenue to give it its correct title. For those who don’t know the arrangement a cycle lane and a walking lane run parallel separated by about two meters of grass.
It is laughable but I often find that it’s easier and safer to CYCLE on the WALKING path as all the walker / strollers / buggy pushers / dog walkers seem magnetically attracted to the cycle path. I actually met a man riding a horse along that particular stretch on one occasion.
Maybe they should switch the lanes so that the path closest to the road is for walkers. I think it's pretty natural to head straight for it when you park your car, especially with a buggy/pram, without realising that it's actually the cycle lane.
Maybe they should switch the lanes so that the path closest to the road is for walkers. I think it's pretty natural to head straight for it when you park your car, especially with a buggy/pram, without realising that it's actually the cycle lane.
Yes, you realise it quite quickly alright, but it can be a pain trying to get a buggy or pram across the grass to the footpath.
Yes, you realise it quite quickly alright, but it can be a pain trying to get a buggy or pram across the grass to the footpath.
This shows that painting tarmac a different colour does not create a safe environment for cyclists. There is blood on Boris's hands, .
There is blood on Boris's hands, given his championing of the 'Cycle Superhighway'.
Oh come on, a pain? It's a pain not being able to cycle safely and smoothly on one of the few dedicated cycle lanes in the city of any reasonable length. It's a pain having to effectively halt when you come near a family with toddlers toddling around the cycle path, as you never know when a toddler is going to dart in one or other direction. it's a pain having to go onto grass on skinny tyres and wheels designed for hard surfaces only.
Please stay off the cycle path.
enormous growth rates achieved in Boris’s first term – an average of just under 11 per cent a year, and more than 15 per cent in the single year 2010/11 alone, for instance. More new cycle journeys were made on the TLRN in 2011 than in any other year. By the end of 2011, more people were cycling in London than at any previous time since the beginning of mass car ownership. The Boris bikes have introduced hundreds of thousands of new people to cycling.
If they were walking on the lanes designated for cars would you feel the same way?No need for the rage against families and kids on cycle paths. How much of a rush are you in. Use the road if it bothers you that much.
That's completely unacceptable, and typical of the 'just me' attitude too often prevalent in Ireland. It's OK for ME to use the cycle path, or the disabled parking spot, or the bus lane because I'm in a hurry, and others can go lump it.No need for the rage against families and kids on cycle paths. How much of a rush are you in. Use the road if it bothers you that much.
Did you bother to read the article that you linked to?Boris has done a lot of cycling in London. The rise in deaths is probably due to the rise in cycling than anything else.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...hnson-courted-lost-growing-cycling-lobby.html
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More positively, however, he announced the launch of twelve cycling superhighways. But when the first two routes were introduced, there was disappointment at their limited scope despite the £2 million a mile cost. On some stretches, sections of old green cycle lanes had been simply painted over in blue; many were just as narrow as the lanes they were replacing – 1.5 metres wide, half the norm in Copenhagen. There was no physical separation beyond (at best) a white line (unlike other cities where cyclists are protected by a kerb) and often highways stopped altogether at the most dangerous junctions, where many of the deaths and serious injuries take place.
Soon there were suggestions that the superhighways, although undoubtedly well-intentioned, might even increase the dangers for cyclists by giving them a false sense of security. A survey published by City Hall itself in 2010 found that more than half of cyclists said they felt no safer on a superhighway than without one. Two-thirds said they did not feel that motorised traffic respected the superhighway and regularly drove into or across one.
Complex junctions were considered particularly challenging, not helped by the fact that calls for a 20 mph speed limit were rejected on the grounds that they would slow motorised traffic. The fact was the superhighways were not only considered ‘scary’ by so-called ‘hardened’ cyclists but only four have been completed by the end of Boris’s first term, with the other eight not now expected until 2015.
Most alarmingly, while the superhighways were still under construction, Boris’s cycling revolution was coming under attack from... Boris. He abandoned plans to pedestrianise Parliament Square, a well-known black spot for cyclists. He abolished the western extension of the congestion charge zone, increasing motorised traffic in the area by eight per cent (or 30,000 vehicles a day). Intriguingly, there were signs that he was reluctant to make the move, but not to do so would have countered the now prevailing Conservative compulsion of ‘ending the war on the motorist’. Boris’s supporters in the outer boroughs were demanding a more car-friendly regime in City Hall, and recognising their importance in his election as mayor (and any future party leadership bid), he gave it to them. The car now became king in Boris’s London; the new transport mantra was not the ‘cycling revolution’ but ‘smoothing traffic flow’.
Sorry, but cyclists don't 'come out of nowhere'. They usually come from the left side of traffic, filtering beside slow moving cars. If you find that cyclists are 'coming out of nowhere', you need to improve your observation.I think that's a bit harsh on Boris or anyone else in authority. Even with hi viz vests and lights, when it is a rainy dark wintry day it is sometimes exceedingly difficult to see cyclists. They can come at you from any side. I do my best but there have been times I just don't see them, despite checking as best I can.
I once had a cyclist thump the front of my car, and scared me half to death, because I'd done something wrong, I think I didn't see him and cut across him. And another time one yelled at me, more screamed. Both male if it makes any difference, on that occasion I had to cross tram tracks, at a junction, with cars in two lanes, the cars behind wanting me to get out of their way, and the cyclist came out of nowhere.