Davywalnuts said:I really dont understand the point of the raised bricks, apart from seperation from cars, but its stupid and dangerous on all counts.
Equally, crossing over it, as it seems to have happened is stupid, and why she did we wont know, but its something I have done on a cycle path/ped path that runs along part of the A316 in Hanworth that has a "lip" where the ped path is about 1cm higher than the cycle path, and I came off, again, very stupid design but my fault for not looking or paying attention, but no where near as obvious as in this case..
Arch said:As it's not mentioned we can but guess, but suppose you were riding along and a pedestrian or small child or dog stepped out, or a ball rolled out, or even a plastic bag blew in front of you, just at that point. You'd be pretty likely to swerve outwards, forgetting the kerb. Even if you remembered it, your instinct would be to avoid the ped etc... At a shallow angle like that, you'd be most likely to be thrown.
Davywalnuts said:Absolutley, which makes you wonder all the more about what sort of risk assessment was done, if any, for the Council to install and waste more money on unnessesary cycling infrastructure because in my eyes, under the above situation the rider is off'd and straight under the wheels of any vehicle coming along.
snorri said:The readers comments below the newspaper article, are truly despicable.
snorri said:The readers comments below the newspaper article, are truly despicable.
rusky said:They are tame compared to other cycling articles
Matthames said:Usual diatribe posted by a minority of Argus readers with nothing better to do in their lives.