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[tinyjo]

If you are a cyclist in Oxford or Cambridge, take the Oxford & Cambridge cycling survay. The aim is apparently to provide info/signage which will help bus drivers and cyclists better get along - they'll be putting it up in Oxford first and using Cambridge as a control.

Comments

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I cycle next to the bus station on the way to work every day, and several times I have been nearly forced into the gutters by impatient bus drivers who think there is room to pass me without knocking me off when there isn't. I've also had them pull out from stationary at a stop when I've been overtaking without indicating. I presume this is due to bad visibility and not because they actually want to knock me off.

So I like the idea of better signage to try and help bus drivers and cyclists get along, although since I'll be in the control city it's not going to help me for a while.

2 suggestions

[applez.livejournal.com]

1. What you can do in the immediate is cycle in the centre of the path ... as if you were a car. Claim the space. It is aggressive, will piss off some, but is a viable tactic...and is actually safer than one might otherwise think.

2. See about getting the city council to paint in lanes with realistic turning areas, and marked areas of shared danger.