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Live blog: Arnold Schwarzenegger: “I want to bicycle all over the world”, nearest of near misses as Dutch cyclist nearly hit by passenger train; NZ cyclist uses cardboard box to keep dry +more
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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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captain_slog 6 hours ago
I see quite a few MAAP items out in the Surrey Hills. The new shop has a cafe and they're from Melbourne so the coffee should be good: I'm looking forward to visiting.
jackcycles 8 hours ago
@chrisonabike Mercedes was acceptable, but the second one (old Toyota people carrier/ex-taxi) was a prosecutable offence.
Rendel Harris 11 hours ago
I wasn't saying that nor talking about people who say that. I said it was silly to claim that wearing a helmet indicates acceptance of dangerous driving and poor infrastructure. I choose to wear a helmet; I also regularly report dangerous driving to the police and correspond with councils and road authorities about ways infrastructure could be improved for cyclists. I rather doubt I'm the only helmet wearer who does so.
Steve K 11 hours ago
@JamieT (a pedant writes) she's a London Assembly member, not an MP.
eburtthebike 14 hours ago
@Rendel Harris ".....but the claim that wearing one is somehow to be accepting dangerous driving and poor infrastructure is silly." Not that silly. Demanding that cyclists wear a helmet is seen by many people as 'the answer' to cycling safety, so there's no need to put in infrastructure. The difference between infrastructure and helmets is that infrastructure works. Helmets are a distraction from what really works, and the more time we spend talking about them, the less time we spend on things that do work. Helmets should be consigned to the dustbin of history as a failed experiment, and we should cease even mentioning them.
wtjs 14 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird Hats off to George Hall My hat's not coming off- despite this touch of cycleway-washing, Hall still bears the Mark of Cain, until he repudiates his party altogether
JamieT 15 hours ago
Perhaps an article showing a) what is available in the uk as cargo bikes and) comments from real life scenarios from those already using bikes or cargo bikes as one gentleman has done in the comments. Perhaps road.cc could follow up with this. Even the London Assembly member said not every business should use cargo bikes but suggested a more nuanced approach suitable for certain trades or companies....
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Arnold Schwarzenegger: “I want to bicycle all over the world”, nearest of near misses as Dutch cyclist nearly hit by passenger train; NZ cyclist uses cardboard box to keep dry +more”
Clearly thinking outside the
Clearly thinking outside the box….
Woke up this morning
Woke up this morning
Closed in on all sides
Nothing doing
I feel resistance
As I open my eyes
Someone’s fooling
I’ve found a way to break through this cellophane line
Cause I know what’s going on in my own mind
Am I a squirrel in a box?
Am I a squirrel in a cardboard box?
Am I a squirrel in a box?
Am I a squirrel in a cardboard box?
Am I a squirrel in a box?
I don’t know whether to be
I don’t know whether to be glad or sad that German transport professionals are as bad as ours.
As for the NZ rider in a carboard box, it has nothing to do with getting wet, it’s so that they don’t get fined for riding without a helmet.
Those Berlin artics aren’t
Those Berlin artics aren’t eighteen-wheelers. Double axle tractors units are becoming rarer on European roads.
Hope the lane gets changed.
Flâneur wrote:
What’s worrying is that in the UK, many councils would probably think that was a great little piece of infrastructure…
brooksby wrote:
It’s pretty terrible, yeah – almost designed to get you squished.
If the roads leading up to it were designed such that this were a specific delineated segment and, say, had lights immediately before with advanced release for cyclists, and phased such that it were incredibly improbably a cyclist and a driver to be on this same section at the same time?
It might not be as awful! Unfortunately, that’d be a bit of functionality that’d break the second there’s traffic.
As it is, that’s going to get somebody killed.
Dutch reach?
Dutch reach?
ktache wrote:
Dutch courage?
Was that Catherne Tait as a
Was that Catherne Tait as a guest on the NZ show?
If Arnold would like to visit
If Arnold would like to visit the UK, I’m sure road.cc readers could provide a list of drivers to be terminated. Might take him some time though, a list that long.