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I see driverless cars as the saviour of road cycling safety, as they will eliminate driver error altogether.
firedfromthecircus":2ptoe4ln said:For all of you that love to cycle in the door zone lest you upset a driver perhaps you should watch this.
https://twitter.com/GMcycling/status/628543130300776448
scottmac":zplc9uge said:I'm sure we've all been in a similar position.
So, what's the answer?
All of us sharing our experiences on here will not change the situation.
Any ideas? :?
It seem highlandsflyer, that when I have posted on here in the past, you always try to to ridicule me. You have made sexual remarks against me in the past and always need to have a dig at anything I have posted on Retrobike. I find that nobody on the planet has as much experience as you regarding any subject posted on this forum. You have a story for EVERYTHING in life and I am sure you are a god in your own outside loo, but I really can't be ar$ed posting here, when all you do is try and belittle me, and others too I'm afraid, with your condescending and patronising manner. :roll: I have reported you to moderators on several occasions, but I come on here for a chat and a bit of banter, not to be ridiculed.highlandsflyer":3rrvfdk3 said:scottmac":3rrvfdk3 said:I'm sure we've all been in a similar position.
So, what's the answer?
All of us sharing our experiences on here will not change the situation.
Any ideas? :?
Well this is a message board on a site focussing on a certain group of cyclists or collectors interested in a specific area of cycling.
Not really a campaigning medium.
I don't know how you come to the conclusion that discussing these issues here will not change the situation.
Any discussion on this issue is valuable.
My particular answer is to lobby for more cycle ways.
Some people see that as a retrograde step.
There are large distances involved in the rural highlands, we have the potential to create a huge interconnected cycle system that keeps motorised traffic completely separate from pedestrian and cycle traffic.
It just takes some imagination and a lot of funding.
Sorting out the problems faced in extra urban areas is completely different, and studies have shown complete separation might not be ideal, as it is not practical.
That leaves a dangerous fudge, where cyclists are sometimes separate, then mixed.
That intersection is where many of the fatalities occur.
I really don't know the answer to that.
In London I use the canals and old railways where available, but I am still dodging taxis to get to them.
Up here I might cover a half dozen road miles on a forty mile loop.
Different worlds. Different solutions.
What JamesM says fits best with the approach I take to defensive riding.
I would rather force a driver to slow down than have them push me into the kerb.
I have been hit a few times doing this, but they have always slowed to near my pace before hitting me.
If it were left to me, London would have roads shut off to moronised traffic in order to provide huge safe areas for cyclists, pedestrians and the like. Barriers would close occasionally to allow waiting moronised vehicles cross over, but they would always have to wait.
They may call me a dreamer.
highlandsflyer":3s3lnvt3 said:That happens to me almost every time I venture onto the road for a mile or so between off road. Drivers really are getting worse, and there are many more of them!
highlandsflyer":fkd2ok17 said:I have an issue with the presumed liability thing, .
For justice to exist there needs to be a fundamental assumption that all begins equal.
greencat":112wsjpb said:I sit on the fence regarding more segregation between cycles and cars. It may encourage the less confident, but it also contributes to the sense of cyclists not being "real" traffic.