5 entries tagged
cycling
and
idea
The latest road-safety nonsense is the report saying that cyclists
must not be consulted on cycling facilities because the opinions of
people who don’t cycle more significant if they are to be enticed out of
their cars. I don’t believe that creating yet more poorly maintained and
subtly dangerous cycle tracks will increase cycling amongst motorists.
So long as they cleave to Jeremy Clarkeson’s line that only freaks and
weirdos ride bikes, most people will not even be able to imagine doing
it themselves.
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Most people think cycle lanes and cycle tracks are automatically safe—after all, that‘s what the people in charge put them for, right? In fact, if you put town planners to the question, they admit that cycle lanes are there to create the perception of safety in the minds of people not yet brave enough to ride a bike in the streets. There is another function of cycle lanes, which is making it easier for motor-cars to overtake cycles, thus improving traffic flow.
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Here’s another idea of a hazard sign for cycle lanes, continuing form my previous post. Cyclists sometimes travel too near the left edge of the road, or too close to parked cars for safety. Cycle lanes should not encourage this.
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Oxford needs some charismatic bicycle races of its own, and I would like to propose the King’s-to-King’s Dash.
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Here is another proposal for a cycle event in Oxford (the first being the King’s-to-King’s dash): the DODO/ODO.
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