London’s roads are not fit for purpose any more. Too many different modes of transport all jostling for space on a glorified cart track. It needs a serious overhaul, junctions need closing, roads need closing off and allocating to bikes only, more one way streets, cycle lanes need a bit more thought than a few tins of blue paint thrown on the ground, roads (like Kings Road) don’t need to have traffic lights every 50 yards. It’s an absolute mess, I’m amazed the figure is so low.
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[News] Urgent safety plea after 8 deaths in just 5 days on London's roads
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I’d disagree with this bit. The road system is a mess, you can stop at a red light and have 5 cyclists get in front of you, two either side of you (who stop and lean on your car) and 5 behind you. Nobody’s doing anything wrong but it’s just one of many situations where you only have to not notice one of them because you’re looking out for 10 others and they’ve had it. Everyone needs their own bit of space.
Drove from Seaford to Norwich yesterday. 5 times we witnessed near misses involving cars being in wrong lane to exit so without indication last second cut inside to exit. All down to driver not planning ahead.
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Don't get me wrong, it just would be nice, a la [MENTION=600]Bry Nylon[/MENTION], to read an acceptance that the vehicles doing the killing has a responsibility as well as the idiots putting their lives in unnecessary danger.
I'm just listening to Eli's Jame and Jon Robins podcast, from Elis' south London home.
Jon has driven from Buckinghamshire and is going nuts because it takes over an hour to go the final 8 miles from Hammersmith Bridge.
2 hours Friday afternoon.
Elis' replied, "but I cycle".
To which Jon replies "let's take cycling out of the equation".
Very telling!
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Motogull
Todd Warrior
- Sep 16, 2005
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Its not just the roads is it though? There has been so much residential development over the last 20 years that little can cope. Last summer I had to go to somewhere like Warren Street in the rush hour. The platform had not emptied before the next tube came in. Bus journeys were pretty decent. London is fukked because its overpopulated.
What was the gist of the error?
It's annoying enough when a cyclist whizzes through a red light - a truck doing it is awful. Shame you weren't a millennial, filming every moment of your life.
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Why worry about these deaths when there's a stabbing every minute.
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In fairness, knowing the lights sequence id turned off the main road and cut the corner a couple of hundreds yards back, nipping through a parking area.
The lorry was behind me at the point I was turning off.
B-right-on
Living the dream
That's 25% of the deaths. I'm a car driver and a motorbike rider and I am horrified at the idiots on the scooters nowadays. Raise the min age to 18 - and I come from the days when you didn't need a test to get on a 50cc scooter at 16 and I had a 250cc at 17 with no tests.
Kids think they are indestructible, unfortunately they aren't. I know that I was a complete tw@t on mine at that age when I look back at it now.
Sussex Nomad
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Yep around the green there heading towards Westfield... nightmare.
Sussex Nomad
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Probably be worth a watch on Tuesday: https://www.channel5.com/show/cyclists-scourge-of-the-streets/