23 April 2024, 09:52
Near Miss of the Day, beautiful cycle path edition
This morning, Norway-based Scot Stuart Baillie decided to give us a glimpse into a horrific, dystopian future where cycling infrastructure is safe, smooth, and quite frankly lovely – and where the greatest danger you’d encounter is some eejit on a bike overtaking on a blind bend and nearly hitting you:
[see link for video]
<https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-23-april-2024-307973#live-blog-item-57109>
23 April 2024, 09:52
Near Miss of the Day, beautiful cycle path edition
This morning, Norway-based Scot Stuart Baillie decided to give us a glimpse into a horrific, dystopian future where cycling infrastructure is safe, smooth, and quite frankly lovely – and where the greatest danger you’d encounter is some eejit on a bike overtaking on a blind bend and nearly hitting you:
[see link for video]
<https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-23-april-2024-307973#live-blog-item-57109>
On 25/04/2024 09:19 am, Spike wrote:
23 April 2024, 09:52
Near Miss of the Day, beautiful cycle path edition
This morning, Norway-based Scot Stuart Baillie decided to give us a glimpse >> into a horrific, dystopian future where cycling infrastructure is safe,
smooth, and quite frankly lovely – and where the greatest danger you’d >> encounter is some eejit on a bike overtaking on a blind bend and nearly
hitting you:
[see link for video]
<https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-23-april-2024-307973#live-blog-item-57109>
Have you got a link to the video?
That URL doesn't seem to go to anything to do with what you describe above!
JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
On 25/04/2024 09:19 am, Spike wrote:
23 April 2024, 09:52
Near Miss of the Day, beautiful cycle path edition
This morning, Norway-based Scot Stuart Baillie decided to give us a glimpse >>> into a horrific, dystopian future where cycling infrastructure is safe,
smooth, and quite frankly lovely – and where the greatest danger you’d >>> encounter is some eejit on a bike overtaking on a blind bend and nearly
hitting you:
[see link for video]
<https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-23-april-2024-307973#live-blog-item-57109>
Have you got a link to the video?
That URL doesn't seem to go to anything to do with what you describe above!
It’s a link to the blog, containing more than one article. Scroll down to the item timed and dated 3 April 2024, 09:52 and titled ‘Near Miss of the Day, beautiful cycle path edition’ and click on the twitter video.
This is road.cc we’re dealing with here…🙄
On 25/04/2024 03:08 pm, Spike wrote:
JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
On 25/04/2024 09:19 am, Spike wrote:It’s a link to the blog, containing more than one article. Scroll down to >> the item timed and dated 3 April 2024, 09:52 and titled ‘Near Miss of the >> Day, beautiful cycle path edition’ and click on the twitter video.
23 April 2024, 09:52
Near Miss of the Day, beautiful cycle path edition
This morning, Norway-based Scot Stuart Baillie decided to give us a glimpse
into a horrific, dystopian future where cycling infrastructure is safe, >>>> smooth, and quite frankly lovely – and where the greatest danger you’d >>>> encounter is some eejit on a bike overtaking on a blind bend and nearly >>>> hitting you:
[see link for video]
<https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-23-april-2024-307973#live-blog-item-57109>
Have you got a link to the video?
That URL doesn't seem to go to anything to do with what you describe above! >>
This is road.cc we’re dealing with here…🙄
Found it (by searching for "Baillie" on the page)!
23 April 2024, 09:52
Near Miss of the Day, beautiful cycle path edition
This morning, Norway-based Scot Stuart Baillie decided to give us a glimpse into a horrific, dystopian future where cycling infrastructure is safe, smooth, and quite frankly lovely – and where the greatest danger you’d encounter is some eejit on a bike overtaking on a blind bend and nearly hitting you:
[see link for video]
<https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-23-april-2024-307973#live-blog-item-57109>
Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
23 April 2024, 09:52
Near Miss of the Day, beautiful cycle path edition
This morning, Norway-based Scot Stuart Baillie decided to give us a glimpse >> into a horrific, dystopian future where cycling infrastructure is safe,
smooth, and quite frankly lovely – and where the greatest danger you’d >> encounter is some eejit on a bike overtaking on a blind bend and nearly
hitting you:
[see link for video]
<https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-23-april-2024-307973#live-blog-item-57109>
Not dissimilar to the Netherlands.
Cyclists ignore the rules, ride through crowds of pedestrians, ignore one way signs, …… Very few wear helmets. Many of the bikes have a single “back
pedal” brake.
Interestingly, observing bus drivers, the Dutch don’t seem to have any ‘close pass’ rule.
It isn’t unusual to see a parent with two young children, one in a seat mounted on the cross bar or the handle bars, and another on a rear carrier, tearing down the road, not one of the three with a helmet.
I assume the Dutch have no shortage of organ donors.
Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
23 April 2024, 09:52
Near Miss of the Day, beautiful cycle path edition
This morning, Norway-based Scot Stuart Baillie decided to give us a glimpse >> into a horrific, dystopian future where cycling infrastructure is safe,
smooth, and quite frankly lovely – and where the greatest danger you’d >> encounter is some eejit on a bike overtaking on a blind bend and nearly
hitting you:
[see link for video]
<https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-23-april-2024-307973#live-blog-item-57109>
Not dissimilar to the Netherlands.
Cyclists ignore the rules, ride through crowds of pedestrians, ignore one way signs, …… Very few wear helmets. Many of the bikes have a single “back
pedal” brake.
Interestingly, observing bus drivers, the Dutch don’t seem to have any ‘close pass’ rule.
It isn’t unusual to see a parent with two young children, one in a seat mounted on the cross bar or the handle bars, and another on a rear carrier, tearing down the road, not one of the three with a helmet.
I assume the Dutch have no shortage of organ donors.
Brian <noinv@lid.org> wrote:
Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
23 April 2024, 09:52
Near Miss of the Day, beautiful cycle path edition
This morning, Norway-based Scot Stuart Baillie decided to give us a glimpse >>> into a horrific, dystopian future where cycling infrastructure is safe,
smooth, and quite frankly lovely – and where the greatest danger you’d >>> encounter is some eejit on a bike overtaking on a blind bend and nearly
hitting you:
[see link for video]
<https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-23-april-2024-307973#live-blog-item-57109>
Not dissimilar to the Netherlands.
Cyclists ignore the rules, ride through crowds of pedestrians, ignore one >> way signs, …… Very few wear helmets. Many of the bikes have a single “back
pedal” brake.
Interestingly, observing bus drivers, the Dutch don’t seem to have any
‘close pass’ rule.
It isn’t unusual to see a parent with two young children, one in a seat
mounted on the cross bar or the handle bars, and another on a rear carrier, >> tearing down the road, not one of the three with a helmet.
I assume the Dutch have no shortage of organ donors.
In a country that has a population one-fourth the size of that of the UK
(in modern parlance, ‘four times smaller’), the number of cyclists killed there per annum has hovered around 200 for the last 20 years, in contrast
to the UK’s 100 and falling.
One would have to ask what the Dutch are doing wrong, with all that cycling infrastructure, ‘Dutch reaches’ and the like. Such things clearly aren’t
helping to reduce the number of cyclist deaths there. Yet the Dutch model
is paraded as an exemplar of how to accommodate cyclists, such is the distorted view of the cycling world. They could usefully learn from the UK.
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