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

ktache wrote:

Dutch reach?

Dutch courage?

Flâneur wrote:

Those Berlin artics aren't eighteen-wheelers. Double axle tractors units are becoming rarer on European roads.

Hope the lane gets changed.

What's worrying is that in the UK, many councils would probably think that was a great little piece of infrastructure... 

brooksby wrote:

Flâneur wrote:

Those Berlin artics aren't eighteen-wheelers. Double axle tractors units are becoming rarer on European roads.

Hope the lane gets changed.

What's worrying is that in the UK, many councils would probably think that was a great little piece of infrastructure... 

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.