Comments on: So many more people are commuting by bike in London

By: Wool Jersey Gal

Wool Jersey Gal — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:12:05 +0000

The more cyclists out there the safer cycling will be? That seems counter intuitive. The more pedestrians on the road the less pedestrians will get hit by a car? I don’t know about that.

By: Retro Bicycles

Retro Bicycles — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:28:18 +0000

Give me an old cool bicycle, and I’ll ride around the city for days.

By: Andrew Lobb

Andrew Lobb — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:29:36 +0000

Why will the tax break make cycling safer? Well, you said it yourself – the more cyclists that there are, the safer cycling will be.

By: Karl McCracken

Karl McCracken — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:15:54 +0000

Sorry – link thingie didn’t work: http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.991077,-1.517779&spn=0.000831,0.001679&t=k&z=19&om=1

By: Karl McCracken

Karl McCracken — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:15:15 +0000

Telfie I’ve got to agree with you. Round here there are lots of cycle tracks & lanes on roads. But for the most part, the tracks are secluded enough for the junior scroats to attempt Lambrini bottle juggling (with the inevitable comic results!)

And as for the cycle lanes . . . these are generally a joke. Too narrow, right on the edge of the road (and so full of the sharps that get swept aside by the heavier traffic), usually poorly surfaced, etc, etc. My biggest moan in the long list is that they’re so often just token efforts. So they do strange things like stopping as you pass a junction (so you should give way to traffic joining from a T-junction), or being so short as to be meaningless – like this one that lasts for no more than 75m, encouraging cyclists to leave the road and go . . . back on.

By: telfie

telfie — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:55:06 +0000

It is one thing to make the bike tracks/lanes … it is then another to ensure that they are kept clean. I ride around Margate / Ramsgate / Canterbury and generally ride on the road. But in some places purely for safety (some would say better to ride the path all the time), I ride on the cycle paths. However, they are not cleaned and in some parts have mud and debris across them that makes it dangerous.

You also get puntures when sharp rocks hide in the mud as I found the other day …

By: Karl McCracken

Karl McCracken — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:15:06 +0000

I’d actually make the last item on the list more of a priority – both in terms of teaching people how to be safe, but also to give them the confidence that cycling in traffic requires.

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