Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Was the MP wearing high visibility and a helmet?
The comment about cyclists not wanting to stop shows a fundamental misconception of most cycle policy and a cause for poor infrastructure design.
Forcing a cyclist to stop from 25 kph is equivalent to making the rider do an extra 100 metres in terms of energy used. To encourage more people to switch to cycling should be designed to minimise this impact to cyclists by making red lights "Give Way" and granting cyclists priority over pedestrians on shared routes and over motorised traffic on roads. In a large city this could be done with vastly bigger, 15-20 metre, ASL zones at busy junctions.
Lol, you can grant all the priority you like, the bastards will still walk on the bike path even if it is exclusively for bikes with a footpath next to it.
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IIRC, there is no 'right of way' in the HC - it's priority, which is a different thing. Much as people confuse 'must' and 'should' in the HC.
66/67 not withstanding,
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/highway-code-rules-103-158
"The rules in The Highway Code do not give you the right of way in any circumstance, but they do advise you when you should give way to others."
Which is why there is specific priority assigned to pedestrians when they're already crossing a side road (lost on some drivers *rolleyes*), which doesn't apply otherwise - ie those on the carriageway they're crossing have priority - ie you can't jump out into the traffic (other than on a pedestrian crossing) and expect someone to instantly stop.
There's a similar case with vehicles pulling out into traffic from a side road and expecting traffic to stop for them - if there's a collision they *will* be deemed at fault because they don't have priority.
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