09-18-2019, 12:52 AM
(09-17-2019, 10:30 PM)clasher Wrote: Here's a pro-tip to avoid getting right-hooked: don't zoom by a line of cars on the right when they're stopped at a light. Even if you see a turn signal coming down that hill on Park where this particular incident happens leaves little time to react.
I don't know what you would do with road design to prevent this sort of thing. Even if a driver did a shoulder check it's quite possible in this location a fast cyclist could be going 35-45km/h and that's enough time for someone in car to shoulder-check, not see a cyclist, and start their turn. A rider going that speed would need fast reflexes and great brakes to stop in time. Someone going fast down a line of cars like that isn't going to have a lot of time to see a turn signal and could quite easily miss seeing one...
Y'all are clamouring for drivers to be better trained and to make more effort to look... sometimes that goes for cyclists too, and this rider could have saved themselves a bit of pain by not riding like this. Sorry that stresses you out but as a someone that rides a bike I can't ignore poor cycling choices leading to poor outcomes.
Actually we're clamoring for safer roads.
To answer your question, the design is a tighter corner so drivers must go slowly, and to set the crossing back so that drivers have better sightlines to the incoming cyclists.
And I mean, that's just the dutch design, I guess we could innovate instead.
That being said, the cyclist in the video was not going anywhere near that speed, neither is any cyclist coming up beside traffic like that. But I guess it's easier to make a point if you ignore that.