Who invented armadillos for lane segregation of a cycle lane? These look apparently like bits of car tyre raised up through the road surface designed not to damage vehicles. The trouble is that they also do not really work to make cyclists feel safe from traffic either and look bloody awful. Then who decided to have floating bus stops? These are where you have a cycle lane but the bus has to stay on the road, so you have to cross the cycle lane to find the stop, but often for a blind person there is now no flag on the pavement to indicate where the bus stop is, and neither are there standards of tactile or which direction from a crossing the buss stop is, no railings either so you can walk straight off into traffic. Signage is sparse for cyclists so the think they have right of way and mow the blindy down. The problem in the worlds seems to be a complete lack of standards and indeed awareness that all pavement and public transport users are not able bodied youths. Brian
Good ideas overseas
Jun 17, 2018
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It's called "the NIH syndrome" (Not Invented Here).
It?s the ?glacial pace of overtaking? rather than absolute speed that?s the problem. Two lorries overtaking on a dual carriageway can form a rolling roadblock that can last for miles if they?re really pig-headed.
Tim
Just about to leave my local Wickes the other day when a twin cab pickup swooped in and stopped diagonally across two disabled bays.
Chris
WTF has that got to do with laziness?
The Dutch use large brick things that are placed every two metres along the edge of the cycle lane. They also have raised lines instead of just white lines marking the lanes on roundabouts. They make drivers take the right route through the roundabouts.
In The Netherlands trucks are only allowed to use the slow/inside lane at peak traffic times. Large fines make them comply.
Should take a picture and upload to the YPLAC Twitter account or their website!
A question I have asked myself over and over again :-)
shouldn't inside have been outside?
Where I've seen it the exact opposite occured and there was no edging forward in a mistimed expectation of a green light showing.
I don't recall noticing any issue with cars jumping the red. Maybe they learnt to realise they would get hit? Or maybe there was a longer delay between the opposing red and the forthcoming green.
This one has too. But many vans are lower than some Chelsea tractors. ;-)
You're very lucky round your way, then. Happens all the time these days. Making it even slower for traffic waiting to turn right.
we have them in the UK
I crossed the road by one only last week Ludgate Hill IIRC
tim
I don't think they put them in the driver's view, only pedestrians
tim
Of course its the drivers fault, he knows its going to happen and still does it. Just an ignorant bstard.
Pretty well all of then round here can be read by drivers too.
Same here the one in straford has been there a year or so if not more could have been there since the olympics.
You're not English/British are you?
Stop asking if you couldn't be bothered to reply then.
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