inaperfectworld
New Member
there is a long road near me i use regularly, very wide, more of a boulevard. it is 30mph but traffic goes about 40 and i understand that there is a higher rate of accidents. the council have just put a paint stipe separator in the middle of the road; whereas i liked the road because traffic gave you so much room(it is a good 4 cars wide) now the traffic is coming uncomfortably close. it never seems councils ever consult or consider cyclists when they make these changes, so that there are road narrowing extensions into the road which make a bike and a car a tight and dangerous squeeze, funny speed humps in the centre and the edges of the road so which bring bikes and cars into conflict and speed humps just prior to junctions, with cycle channel on the extreme left thus taking bikes into the blind spot of emerging drivers.and they hope that people are going to be encouraged to cycle.