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), one thing which I really noticed was the cycling (apart from, er, other things of course ). Young people would cycle from nightclubs and bars for example. Very unlike this country, where bikes are more treated as exercise machines I think, rather than transport tools.
Young people would cycle from nightclubs and bars for example.
Can you imagine that after a typical Saturday night out in a British city? It would be carnage! People in micro-skirts and high heels wobbling about all over the place while still trying to down another bottle of WKD.How odd.cubes wrote:I cycle to work all year round (except when icy) and this is my opinion of some of the reasons why cycling is less popular here.
The crappy standard of driving most drivers over here exhibit. Speeding, passing to close to cyclists when passing and running red lights 1-2 seconds after they change - even speeding up 'to make sure'. Then they complain about the low standard of cycling...
I don't use cycle lanes that are simply tagged in as green tarmac lanes up against the kerb of the roads in this country. They are downright dangerous for the cyclist. They tend to force the cyclist to ride over the drains and also stop unexpectedly, leaving the cyclist trapped against the kerb while the cars go rushing past. They are just plain stupid. I get in the centre of the left hand half of a given lane and stay there till I am ready to pull off. If car can get past, that great, if they can't that's tough. The thing is, they know where they are with such an arrangement and, also, if they decide to cut me up, I have plenty of lane to my left to retreat into if necessary. I completely ignore cycle lanes.RalphW wrote:Government have announced £90m spend on cycling infrastructure. Almost enough for 1 mile of the new A14 - and of course dependent on matched funding from the private sector - for 6 cities including Cambridge.
It will be building segregated cycle paths on-road on some of the straightest, widest, and least dangerous cycle routes in the city, but they will stop as soon as the roads narrow and cars and cyclists start to conflict.
This is normal design for cycle facilities in Cambridge.
That said, it does include the stretch where I was twice nearly taken out in the last 2 years. It will be interesting to see how they handle priority at junctions, will the cycle path get priority, Dutch style, or will the lane simply give naive cyclists false sense of security as usual?
