Don't cycle, or drive, or ride a motorbike...

[CopperBrompton]

It is amazing how resilient the human body can be
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Ah yes, Sao Paolo: 20 motorcyclist deaths a day ...

 

[CopperBrompton]

San Fran is one of the few places I completely fell in love with and would like to live there. It feels more European than American.

Yes, great city, but those hills would kill me!

 

[661-Pete]

Ah yes, Sao Paolo: 20 motorcyclist deaths a day ...

The video's from Greece apparently. And a helpful commenter translates (some of!) what the biker is shouting: it seems the car ran a red light, so that clears the biker. Lucky guy - I think the way he rolled across the car roof helped to soften the impact.

 

[CopperBrompton]

This one is the States (Manhattan?):
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[marzjennings]

Some of the driving is pretty dangerous, but when I was out there, I never saw a single accident, I even cycled and hitched a lift on a ped.

True, it did look dangerous, but no one ever seemed to get hit or have an accident. It was like some sort of khoatic fluid motion.

 

[al78]

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As Buggi says, the most striking thing to me is the apparent complete absence of any system of road markings to indicate who has to give way to whom - even more basic than road signs/lights in terms of enabling North-South and East-West traffic to negotiate a passage safely ...
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http://www.brake.org.uk/naked-roads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space

 

[swee'pea99]

http://www.brake.org.uk/naked-roads
http://en.wikipedia....ki/Shared_space

"The removal of signs and road markings has led to an improvement of casualty figures in parts of Holland, Denmark and Sweden."

No mention of China then...

 

[DavieB]

Its like they close their eyes and hope they make it through.

 

[HLaB]

What a complete and utter pratt, I wouldn't of had the cool and forgiving manner of the bloke in a suit. That cyclist deserves splattered by a 4x4

+1, What a pratt.

 

[JamesAC]

And now they are proposing to remove road markings and so on in some British towns???

 

[Arch]

I stopped watching after the mother and daughter reversed into by the minibus thing... Couldn't bear any more...

 

[darkstar]

What a complete and utter pratt, I wouldn't of had the cool and forgiving manner of the bloke in a suit. That cyclist deserves splattered by a 4x4

You do realise that crossing the road without using the 'crosswalk' is illegal in the states? So i'm pretty sure you would not make a scene as you were in the wrong as well.

 

[taxing]

You do realise that crossing the road without using the 'crosswalk' is illegal in the states? So i'm pretty sure you would not make a scene as you were in the wrong as well.

The cyclist came off as a right twat though, the way he spoke to the other guy. I'd say sorry if I hit a ped even if I was going the right way down the street and they had just jumped out into my path, it's the decent thing to do.

I'd consider going the wrong way through that traffic a greater crime than jaywalking, anyway.

 

[hackbike 666]

It wasn't working for me in Firefox so I opened it in IE

It worked for me if you just open a new Firefox browser and paste the link...


That video is shocking...

 

[darkstar]

The cyclist came off as a right twat though, the way he spoke to the other guy. I'd say sorry if I hit a ped even if I was going the right way down the street and they had just jumped out into my path, it's the decent thing to do.

I'd consider going the wrong way through that traffic a greater crime than jaywalking, anyway.

Hmm I think you're mixing up the two countries. British people are famous for apologizing for ANYTHING! It's just not like that in the states, especially in the cities. Different cultures I suppose.