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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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Smoggysteve 6 minutes ago
@jackcycles If he was on the road, you can almost guarantee there would be an equally ignorant driver saying "why don't you ride on the cycle path"? No matter where he rode there will be someone who has a lack of common courtesy.
mitsky 16 minutes ago
"Driving an SUV in the UK should require a C1 category driving license." At the end of the day, this is all about safety/risk. I agree with the idea and would welcome a view from the motor insurance industry. If the risk andor claims costs of KSIs/property damage is much higher for drivers of larger vehicles, should those increased premiums/renewals be shared amongst only those drivers? Or, as is currently, all drivers including those of us who only drive smaller vehicles? As a cyclist on the road, I'm not paying "extra" insurance for damage caused by drivers. As a driver, I am.
eburtthebike 23 minutes ago
Councillor Ed Hill demonstrates perfectly how inexperienced and badly trained are Reform and ex-Reform councillors. Anybody informed on the subject would have ensured that their diatribe contained at least one example of 'I'm a cyclist myself, but......'
bikes 32 minutes ago
You're allowed to look at the cycle lane before and as you turn. Which is what this driver did, except he then also stopped and waited for a cyclist to appear in order to make this 'point'. PS if you have to stop, then turning your head to look is another option. You can also lean forwards in your seat AND turn your head. Take this person's driving licence away please.
mdavidford 41 minutes ago
Um - I think you missed the 'andor' at the start of mitsky's post. Prevention is better than cure, but prevention *and* cure is better than either.
Smoggysteve 44 minutes ago
@mitsky Prevention is better than cure. i wouldnt want wait until they kill someone before action is taken. And many people driving never even had to sit a theory test. So are we to take a driving test taken decades ago as enough to assume they understand many new rules that have been brought in in the mean time? When I was in the army , I had to sit a theory test once a year to keep my ability to drive military vehicles in date. I see why this shouldnt be replicated for all drivers. Standards have dropped sharply in recent years. And if it helps make roads safer and also educate many about things like priorities for vulnerable road users there is only positives to take away. any push back is , i assume, more to do with ego. Why should I have to resit a test periodically if Ive never had an incident? Personally Id rather not wait to find out. I would rather know if youre behind the wheel of a car you know exactly that the rules are cos you're up to date via a theory test. I would also suggest that if anyone fails their theory so badly or repeatedly they should have their license reviewed and a possible loss of license until a full test is passed. I know many will say, they will continue to drive without a license. I believe in the cases where this is true, they would do so even if banned after an incident anyway. At least this way we are attempting to educate and raise standards of all road users not just the very worst.
mitsky 56 minutes ago
@Smoggysteve Andor if there is evidence of a driver using the vehicle in a way that would fail a test (ie dangerous fault) then they should lose their licence rather than just recieve points and a fine. If a dangerous fault on a test is enough to prevent someone gaining a full licence, Shirley that same fault should be enough to lose it.
mdavidford 1 hour ago
Better still, make SUV drivers register an abnormal load every time they want to move the vehicle. 😁
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.