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Originally Posted by Taf
Not at all. The council, the bus company, bus drivers and the bus users group have all stated that allowing cyclists to use bus lanes has caused the flow of buses on bus lanes to be totally disrupted.
Calls to force buses to stay in buslanes have been ignored.
Calls to ban cyclists from buslanes have been ignored.
So if there are complaints coming from all directions, who is ignoring the calls for changes to the rules?
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Why do you feel buses ought to have priority of road usage? Is my cycle journey less important that someone who gets the bus? Nope.
The authorities need to get together and work out an alternative strategy that accommodates all road users, including cyclists.
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Originally Posted by Stuart
What works well in France does not necessarily work well over here. But there may be other factors in play. A lot of the cyclists I've dealt with in the past have been (I would argue) spectacularly unobservant. Not all, or, I'd argue, even most. But a significant number. I think ALL road users need to remember they aren't the only person on the road, so they need to be observant, alert (even to the point of following the highway code's advice about taking regular breaks on long journeys) and even courteous to other road users. It'll never happen, but I feel the roads would be so much safer if people were just polite to each other while using them.
The Telegraph makes the point ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ffic-laws.html) that the new law prevents cyclists bunching up at traffic lights then all going en masse when the light goes green. I can see how this would make things more dangerous for both cyclists and motorists, but outside of the major cities, how often do you see cyclists bunched up at the lights? |
We're all obliged to use the roads with the safety of others in mind. There are stupid cyclists, stupid motorists and stupid pedestrians; if we don't focus on the sensible majority nothing will ever get done.
A little more vision is needed. Cyclists are not going to disappear. They will always use the road network. If there needs to be changes to space sharing then nit picking small details won't be enough.
With cycling on the increase, radical reform of road use is necessary.