| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cycling on the pavement | |
| Posted by: | Alex Greenbank | |
| Date/Time: | 22/07/10 12:48:00 |
| "Someone pushing a bike takes up double the pavement width of a pedestrian or cyclists" So now cyclists are a pest even if they dismount and push their bikes? Me pushing a bike along the pavement takes up less space than some wheelchairs, mobility scooters, some obese people, people pulling luggage along, or some of the buggies that people use nowadays, but cyclists are an easier target aren't they. Anyway. I'd have thought the obvious solution is to redesign the junction so that there's only one lane turning left over the bridge. The two lanes that are currently there are not full width anyway, I often see accidents at that corner as the vehicle in the outside lane cuts off the one on the inside. Once a week there's usually a *crunch* of a wing mirror being torn off. The two lanes of traffic often have to merge into one once on the bridge anyway as they try and overtake the buses. I'm guessing that forcing them into a single lane of traffic before the lights would improve the flow over the bridge as the jostling for position and merging would be done coming up to the lights. Use the space reclaimed to widen the pavement on Lower Richmond Road so that people can pass each other (pushing bikes, buggies, wheelchairs or not), even with that stupidly placed bus stop that uses up a huge amount of pavement space, and provide a proper width cycle lane that, shock horror, joins up with the one on the bridge. |