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n0b0dy0ftheg0at
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I can’t help but think, as I’ve written many a time before on various online places, that we really should be making use of modern technology to enforce motorised vehicle speed limits
Speeding is the least of the issues here, automating fines is great for revenue but it means people just get away with more like diving dangerously within the speed limits
Even the folk going to tesco need to get out of the gutter.
ride 1.5 to 2m from the kerb pulling in to 0.75m to let cars past when its safe to do so
Our surrey road (the one I live on) is designed to allow cyclists that choose to forgo the beautiful cycle path that runs parallel to the road to cycle safely in the gutter...
The centre of the road (somewhat <2m) is full of traffic calming which has been specifically designed to allow the cycle gutter to be unimpeded... (personally I find the speed bumps make for once jumps on my hard tail but I don't think that's what's in the majority of cyclists minds)
From there they can go left through the park or up the hill into town with no pavement or cycle path... or go up the one way. Most cyclists choose to push one way or another. A fair few who have been carrying their racquet in one hand whilst cycling are going no further than the park/leisure centre anyway ...
If they knew what a pelaton was they would struggle to ride in one whilst carrying their squash racquet or shopping bags anyway... hence why the advice by surrey police is not particularly helpful to the majority of cyclists who use the Surrey roads.
Come 07:00 on a weekend it's completely different with lots of club riders making their way out ... but that is a tiny percentage... the sort of people who might benefit from the tweet if they didn't know already.