BUS LANES INTO CYCLE SUPER HIGHWAYS

Interesting one.

This is my 5 pence worth, our towns and cities are getting ever more clogged with traffic, pollutions on the rise, and we're turning/turned into a nation of unhealthy fat gits.

We've got a few cycleways in Stratford, mainly down a former railway line and its great to get out, and safe for the kids. Although a bit young at present to cycle on the road, it would be nice one day to cycle safely on the road, rather than having to load the bikes in the motor, and driving to a cycle way, which seems to defeat the object. 

Currently I can't imagine cycling on the road, it's dangerous, too many loons on the road. One of the worst offenders are our local stagecoach buses, who blast through 30 zones and through our local school zigzag markings

Having a safer experience for cyclists may tempt more commuter traffic to leave the roads (although I'll confess to preferring my emission spewing motor in a true hypocritical way).

Who pays for it all though? Well that will have to be cash strapped local authorities, but as a road user, I doubt much of my car tax or fuel levy reaches my local authority 

My husband cycles and I worry for him every day but he's as fit as a fiddle. I think it's the way forward and it desperately needs to be made safer. 

Yes there are bad cyclists but there are many more bad drivers and that is far more dangerous! Did you realise you are supposed to overtake a bike as if it is a car, leaving that much space, not slip right past a foot away. Rarely do people do that. 

We need to make cycling work before we turn into America, all driving to the local corner shop in oversized cars with oversized seats to house our oversized backsides!

And there lies the problem, most cyclists undertake and most lorries have blind spots...Have yet to see a lorry crushed underneath a bicycle.......

As a general rule you wont see children on bikes in Central London, in the suburbs you will. But in Central London if a child is on a bike the chances are the parents will be prosecuted for neglect..as it is just to high risk.

I've no problem with the Cycle super highways currently being constructed in London being built, but we've already invested heavily in purpose built cycle lanes currently painted blue or green and still not all cyclists will use them preferring to use the road instead. You'll come across cyclists riding six abreast making it difficult for other motorists to pass, you'll have cyclists coming up the inside, outside and cross right in front of your moving vehicle, you'll have some, in fact quite a lot all dressed in dark clothing with little or no lights, others will have flashing halogen lights which literally end up blinding drivers. I know many drivers now have the attitude that if want to ride like an idiot, so be it, but you pay the consequences. Cyclists will soon need to buck their ideas up, as the closer we get to driverless vehicles the more accidents I can see happening.

I would also suggest that the Highway code for cyclists is updated, making it perfectly clear, legally binding and with no grey areas about the rules of the road for cyclists, at the moment there is not a lot in it which cyclists thinks applies to them. I also think it is about time the Government considered making cyclists have some form of insurance. At the moment the odds are stacked against the driver, but very rarely in London will a motorist who is involved in a fatal collision with a cyclist be prosecuted......... Which would suggest that the driver is not at fault...

Will tell you who should contribute to be on the roads and be responsible for clearing up their mess - bloody horses!!! (well their riders)

How many times have you been driving down a road, big pile of horse shiii err manure and splat its all up the wing of your nice clean car !!! 

Why are they not forced to clean up their mess like dog owners are?

Well in fairness to Hyde Park Stables when I'm working in their area I do see a couple of people following the horses on foot, shoveling up the stuff. Many of the cars in the area will be Bentley's, Mclaren's and Ferrari's and your odd van So not your normal working mans Ford Mondeo...

Originally Posted by Garde

“Will tell you who should contribute to be on the roads and be responsible for clearing up their mess - bloody horses!!! (well their riders)

How many times have you been driving down a road, big pile of horse shiii err manure and splat its all up the wing of your nice clean car !!! 

Why are they not forced to clean up their mess like dog owners are?”

Originally Posted by Garde

“Will tell you who should contribute to be on the roads and be responsible for clearing up their mess - bloody horses!!! (well their riders)

How many times have you been driving down a road, big pile of horse shiii err manure and splat its all up the wing of your nice clean car !!! 

Why are they not forced to clean up their mess like dog owners are?”

How do you expect them to do it? They can't carry a spade and bucket round....it's not that stinky like dog poo and doesn't carry hideous diseases. Dog poo left on the ground is the most repulsive thing, I HATE it!

Horses, like tractors and any agricultural machinery should be banned from the road! That's what god created fields for 

I'm all for cycle lanes,lucky for us we have a great cycle route close by and often used to use it..Although I do refuse to cycle on the road to get to it ,yes I cycle on the pavement and I do not care ,if and if I come across someone I will leave the path and pass then it's back on again.. You may say a lot of things ,but like the posts before I refuse to become a statistic..

When I pass a cyclist I do pass wide and slow ,nothing wrong with slowing down for them ..Also agree horse riders can't carry a bucket and spade ,oh I pass them the same as cyclists