Van vs Bike
 

[Closed] Van vs Bike

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I have a number of large vans delivering around Kent everyday, so what can I do to them to improve safety for cyclists? Driver training is already taken care of.

They are 7t vans and look like this...
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Posted : 07/02/2013 2:08 pm
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get your drivers to cycle around some of their routes for a different perspective?


 
Posted : 07/02/2013 2:11 pm
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Sticker above back left bumper saying 'Cyclists please do not undertake when vehicle turning left' or something similar? Always scares me when people do that.


 
Posted : 07/02/2013 2:11 pm
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Stick a mobile phone jammer in them so the driver can't text while the engine is running. (Illegal, unfortunately due to interfering with everyone's signal)


 
Posted : 07/02/2013 2:16 pm
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Educate them that all road users have a comparable "right" to be there, that if cyclists can reach out and touch the van when overtaking then they're too close, and that 'road tax' was abolished in the 1930s?

I think that should do it.


 
Posted : 07/02/2013 2:23 pm
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If there's any time when one of them is not needed, arrange with either schools or cycle safety groups for people to get a chance to sit in it and see what the visibility is really like - park it up and put bikes in the blind spots...


 
Posted : 07/02/2013 3:11 pm
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Make all of them ride a bike in circles around the van whilst one of them drives it slowly eating a pasty, drinking tea and having a row with the wife on the mobile....


 
Posted : 07/02/2013 3:14 pm
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inform the drivers that if they recieve one single complaint from either a cyclist or any other road user they are out of the job....

don't give them such a silly schedule of drops... might take the pressure off them and let them relax a little more.


 
Posted : 07/02/2013 3:17 pm