Apologies to all for my poor writing skills. My 'just not smart' comment was to emphasise that right or wrongly the cyclist will always come off worse in an accident. Sort of similar to riding on the inside of a lorry, legal, but not smart.
I walk, cycle and drive that road everyday as I live just off it and have seen several cyclist related incidents, especially in winter.
Summerdays, yes that road has been modified a lot to accommodate cyclists such as repaving the sidewalk, reducing the speed limit from 40 to 30mph etc
But the whole road is quite confusing to drivers when they see it the first see it because of the cycle lane markings. At this spot they widened the sidewalk and made it cyclists only. But notice the curve in the yellow lines. Well one night, soon after being built, me and a few other drivers accidentally mounted that sidewalk as that was the natural layout of the road that we were used to. Anyway, I was certain that you guys would have picked up that the pavement for cylists only was maybe unnecessary. Just widen the road for cars and bikes.
I walk, cycle and drive that road everyday as I live just off it and have seen several cyclist related incidents, especially in winter.
Summerdays, yes that road has been modified a lot to accommodate cyclists such as repaving the sidewalk, reducing the speed limit from 40 to 30mph etc
But the whole road is quite confusing to drivers when they see it the first see it because of the cycle lane markings. At this spot they widened the sidewalk and made it cyclists only. But notice the curve in the yellow lines. Well one night, soon after being built, me and a few other drivers accidentally mounted that sidewalk as that was the natural layout of the road that we were used to. Anyway, I was certain that you guys would have picked up that the pavement for cylists only was maybe unnecessary. Just widen the road for cars and bikes.