i hereby sentence this judge to ride a bike to work for the next ten years
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/court-injunction-ontario-bike-lanes-court-challenge-1.7483871
“British #Cycling’s new plan – and its focus on sport and fleeting, limited references to #infrastructure and #cycling for #transport – have been criticised by #roadsafety expert Dr Robert Davis, who says the strategy fails to address the biggest barrier to growing #cycling in the #UK: the perception that it’s dangerous”
“#Cycling has the power to transform lives, yet too many people face stubborn barriers to getting on a #bike”
https://road.cc/content/news/new-british-cycling-plan-fails-tackle-road-danger-312999
New on the blog: Reporting an excessive speed limit on an important main road needed to access a brand new secondary school that is due to open in September. Will #WarwickshireCountyCouncil be proactive in road safety and get this dropped to 30mph before school starts?
https://fiets.uk/2025-03-13/proactive-road-safety-improvements-before-school-starts/
I know there's legal/privacy issues, but there are times I feel the Police /should/ name and shame commercial companies who are driving work #vans around without #insurance (the driver claimed to the officers he only bought the #van that day, but it already had his companys branding *and* he was wearing a branded T-shirt 
).
If this "entrepreneur" doesn't bother to insure the van, what other insurance is he lacking for the #building work he is doing?
Both the Road Safety Authority and Transport Infrastructure Ireland agree that the problem is too many cars - neither organisation seems to want to do anything about it though.
Now I'm back on a motorbike, I decided to wear those highly flashy and reflective jackets to be seen by other on the road.
It's hard to find if it's actually useful or counter productive, any thoughts?
I'm also looking for advices to improve my visibility from behind, I have a huge 56 liters Kawasaki top case almost hiding me, and it does seem super well equipped in reflective stuff on it.
The #Tesla #Cybertruck is illegal in the UK, and probably will be in the EU. Why? It's extremely dangerous for pedestrians, which is not a concern in modern-day America, and even a selling point.
Main street of village where I work was half closed off with #police and recovery truck - someone had managed to crash just outside the village shop! Slowed down in case of risk from debris/oncoming traffic, an officer beckoned me across using the old style hand signals.
Not the first time there has been an #RTC in that area either, folk are just too impatient/sociopathic these days #RoadSafety #Driving #Suffolk
@thejapantimes 'while drivers were using their mobile phones'
so... why headline the photo of someone riding a bicycle?
@HarriettMB Indeed, the Gardaí, DPP, judges, and plenty more besides. And I've never seen such a collection of work-shy clock-punchers as the Guards.
That said, traffic wardens are local authority employees (or contractors), rather than Gardaí, and they only work on parking infringements.
There again, it's long past time drivers did a lot more road safety work, first and foremost.
Over 40,000 people killed on our roads every year. Tens of millions of lives upended due to road violence. And you're wondering why I'm screaming at you as you make an illegal right on red, violating the crossing signal I've waited 3 minutes for, while staring at your phone? #RoadSafety
Very interesting to see someone at the head of the Road Safety Authority who actually has expertise in traffic and transport engineering.
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/46e3b-anne-graham-appointed-chair-of-the-road-safety-authority/
RTÉ Primetime special tonight on road safety, looking specifically at red light breaking. In every location they filmed they recorded someone breaking a red light every two to three minutes. At one junction, three drivers broke the same red light one after the other.
If you aren’t familiar with critical mass rides, it’s a great way to spend an evening after work, meeting people, getting exercise, doing something positive, and a way to meet people doing activism by merely exercising the right to ride on the road safely for a couple of hours once a month. It’s all ages, all inclusive.
We used to get over 100 people most days back in 90s.
More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass_(cycling)
The new #AI equipped #ANPR #camera #vans using tech developed in #Australia will be deployed by #WestMidlands #Police - they can apparently spot #speeding , seatbelt violations, #mobilephone use and even #DUI ! (probably by monitoring those who are driving erratically and not keeping to correct lanes)
Vans cost £47 000 each (cheaper than I had expected, a plain new van (without any Police equipment is £35k) #RoadSafety #Surveillance #UK
A women on a bicycle was hit by a truck on Sommerville Rd in Yarraville a month ago.
The police haven't charged the truck driver with anything and I really don't think they should. The truck driver is also a victim of this road design.
Prosecuting the truck driver won't achieve anything. It won't make truck drivers more careful and it won't stop incidents like this happening again.
This incident was inevitable because of the road design and will happen again because of the road design.
Sommerville Rd has a 90cm wide painted bike lane that is the door zone of parked cars. So if you're riding there you'll want to be as far right in the bike lane as you can be. This means that the maximum distance that a truck can pass a cyclist on this road is 1.3 metres if they hug the centre line.
This makes it unlikely that a truck driver will actually give a cyclist the 1m required passing distance and it means that cyclists are in the blindest blindspot of a truck once the truck has started overtaking them.
The intersection where this incident happened at is Williamstown Rd (https://maps.app.goo.gl/bbWNFEPdVrcqbAVi8)
The bike lane narrows and then just ends and merges in to the left/forward lane which is the lane motorists are also merging in to so they can get around right turning cars in the right lane.
From a vehicular cycling perspective, cyclists should be taking the middle of the single traffic lane before the intersection and before it splits in two so traffic is behind them not merging from beside them. That's the only way this could possibly work but that's not what the lane markings indicate and requires getting in front of 50km/h traffic that isn't expecting you to merge right. So instead the cyclist moves off to the left getting in to a less visible position from the merging traffic and runs out of road.
Even if the truck driver sees the cyclists in the few seconds of their approach, once they're beside the cyclist the cyclist is in their blindspot and they can't see the cyclist at all. Add a bit of stop start in traffic and a slight distraction and the truck driver will have lost track of the position of the cyclist by the time they get to the merge.
Expecting a human being to be this vigilant over a 12hr shift is just insane.
Blaming the truck driver is letting Transport Victoria off. The engineers that designed this dangerous road knew they were building a dangerous road and they also knew it when it was rebuilt (less than 2 yrs ago) to continue to be this dangerous. The engineers are to blame and fixing the road and the culture that created the road is the only way incidents like this can be prevented in future.
#melbourne #bicycles #RoadSafety
https://maribyrnonghobsonsbay.starweekly.com.au/news/road-set-up-for-failure/
"What is needed now is a comprehensive shift towards smaller cars, lower speed limits and better cycling and pedestrian infrastructure.
All these steps taken together can have multiple benefits: fewer road deaths, less congestion, lowered fossil fuel emissions, less air pollution, and better healthier more liveable cities.
So what are we waiting for?"
Very timely piece from Dr Catherine Conlon
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41575183.html
You cannot begin to understand #RoadSafety without looking at collision matrices.
Mask up 
