Bart wrote:
> On May 13, 11:55 pm, Daniel Barlow wrote:
>> wensleyd...@pacersplace.org.uk (Neil Williams) writes:
>>> There are, in London, quite a lot of one-way streets that are two-way
>>> for cycles only. Seems a good idea.
>> Until you meet a vehicle coming the other way which is not expecting
>> you to be there.
>
> To a driver encountering a cyclist on a one-way street, it doesn't
> actually make that much difference which way the cyclist is going! A
> cyclist takes up the same space whichever way he's pointing!
The closing speed is increased, with the threat of more severe outcomes
to collisions which are themselves more likely in such circumstances.
> It might be an idea to keep on the driver's left, but on a single lane
> one-way road, cyclists can of course be on either side.
>
> Main problem is pedestrians looking the wrong way when crossing the
> road.
You surely mean "pedestrians looking the right way, and therefore not
spotting cyclists coming from the wrong direction". |