Making a few cyclists watch this may help highlight how bad visibility is in a truck;
Also educating truck driver on how to drive a bit more patiently would help. Oh, maybe more enforcement of the rules of the road for both car and truck drivers may be a bit of a deterrent.
Any vehicles - if you cannot see the eyes of the driver he [b]has not [/b]seen you. If you can see their eyes [b]they might[/b] have seen you
"it's lot harder to run someone over once they've looked you in the eyes.
Can't remember who said it, but true.
It's not just the drivers who need to be taught patience. It' the examiners too. The ONLY thing I was marked down for on my hgv test, was taking too long to pass a cyclist.....
"he only needs a couple of feet"
There is a pretty notorious junction in London where deaths have occurred.
Travelling west on Upper Thames Street at the junction with Queen Street Place (going onto Southwark Bridge) there is a cycle lane and an ASL. HGVs turning left here have resulted in very nasty incidents. The cycle lane and the ASL encourage people to 'overtake on the left' as it's a cycle lane.
Anyway, I reckon that in all but a few cases, cycle lanes should be mandatory ones with a solid white line, not a broken line. This means that NO cars, taxis, buses, vans, HGVs, scooters, Motorbikes, etc can use them. Better still a phsical seperation so the can't encroach on the lane at all
If all cyclists bothered to ride two abreast, this kind of thing would never happen.
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Perhaps sopmebody could explain why drivers of certain vehicles, overtake cyclists and ten turn left, where as they dont with old grannies driving Peugots at 10 mph.
Because some people can't bloody drive.
It sounds like the Crossrail contractors need to have an audible warning system fitted, that sounds when a cyclist is on the inside of the lorry. Which is good...its a second system that backs up the driver if he misses something.
Not a troll, just a genuine question: do these "warning systems" and sensors get activated every time the truck overtakes a static object like a lamp-post or comes to a stop at a set of lights and there's a pedestrian walking near it on the pavement? Cos that would render the system nearly worthless...
Mirrors etc are all well and good, you can have 10 mirrors but if the driver is looking in mirror 10 while a cyclist passes through mirror one, it's still no good. This is the problem with having all this extra safety gear, it's going to make the cyclist think "oh it's OK to ride up the inside of a turning lorry"
And as that video above:
Making a few cyclists watch this may help highlight how bad visibility is in a truck;shows then it clearly isn't OK!
They'd be better off fitting cameras on the top of city centre traffic lights, looking down at junctions and ASLs. Be useful to absolve any "good" truck drivers too (and they could probably collect unbelievable amounts of revenue fining ASL-encroaching vehicles if they wanted to)
and bigbrotherwatch could wet themselves again, of course 😆
It sounds like the Crossrail contractors need to have an audible warning system fitted, that sounds when a cyclist is on the inside of the lorry. Which is good...its a second system that backs up the driver if he misses something.
Although I'd be concerned that drivers will come to rely on it. In a car with reversing sensors, it's very easy to start relying on them and to fall out of the habit of looking properly. I fear the same may happen here.
.....and now Crossrail are getting truck drivers onto two wheels to do cycle awareness training. That can only be a good thing but it really needs to be applied to drivers of all trucks and buses and in my experience to quite a few car drivers too.
[url= http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2012/02/24/muck-away-drivers-sent-on-cycle-safety-courses/ ]Truck drivers do cycle awareness training[/url]
#Not a troll, just a genuine question: do these "warning systems" and sensors get activated every time the truck overtakes a static object like a lamp-post or comes to a stop at a set of lights and there's a pedestrian walking near it on the pavement? Cos that would render the system nearly worthless...
The audible warning outside of the truck normally is activated when the driver puts the lefthand indicator on..
Fantastic. I really want to see some of the fat bar stewards at work do this. 😀