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“Why I skip purple lights”: Journalist makes the case for cyclists driving by way of reds (as long as they offer pedestrians precedence)https://t.co/9vfrjViSVN pic.twitter.com/BWfSN4wvx0
— highway.cc (@roadcc) August 17, 2023
Only a few feedback on this one… let’s get cracking and hopefully we’re all accomplished in time for tea…
Sriracha: “In fact it’s safer for the bicycle owner to make the left flip earlier than the adjoining HGV does the identical. However I do not assume having cyclists bounce purple lights is the reply. Long term I might wish to see separate lights for cyclists (just like the little ones you see in France) that might go inexperienced forward of the primary lights, anyplace the place there’s a cycle field/ASL (which have to be the norm, not the exception).”
Rendel Harris: “Whereas I might be completely happy for cyclists to be allowed by way of purple lights in sure conditions – left activate purple for instance – I feel it will be an horrendous mistake to permit them to run reds on pedestrian crossings. Simply final night time I used to be watching our bikes exterior East Dulwich station while Herself picked up some buying, in 5 minutes I noticed no less than a dozen cyclists run by way of the purple on the pelican crossing while pedestrians have been on it; no less than half of them have been driving in extra of 20 mph (it is on the backside of a hill) and needed to swerve round folks crossing.
“If that is the best way folks behave when it’s very unlawful, I can not see any enchancment occurring if it was made authorized. Any laws to permit any leeway for cyclists at lights should keep in mind the hierarchy of highway customers and have pedestrian security as its #1 precedence.”
neilmck: “In France there might be somewhat signal with arrows on the site visitors gentle telling you which of them instructions you possibly can go on purple. Whether or not or not there are these indicators relies upon whether or not or not there’s a bicycle owner working within the native city corridor (this can be decided by wanting on the width of the cycle lanes).
“I commute 50km by bicycle on a regular basis in Paris and I typically undergo purple lights within the outer Parisian area the place there’s very gentle site visitors and no pedestrians, nevertheless I’d by no means achieve this (besides at a signalled junction) in central Paris (there’s simply an excessive amount of taking place to be protected).”
Kerry Palmer: “It has been authorized in some States within the US since 1982… and many of the proof discovered it is safer.”
Honest few Fb feedback, I might recommend with out truly studying the article in query, lacking out utterly the thought Sophie advised it change into regulation… and as an alternative simply piling into one nice huge anti-cycling bingo spherical. Offers ’em one thing to do at lunch, I assume…
Morgoth985: “Appears to me that lots of the objections to the going by way of purple lights concept are alongside the strains of ‘do not break the regulation, it should simply encourage drivers to do the identical’. But when it was a change to the HC then it would not be breaking the regulation.
“Granted, it will be giving some highway customers a proper that others do not have, which could annoy the ‘have nots’, however too unhealthy, that is truly the thought, and would not be the one occasion. [edit: I meant the extra right is the idea, not the annoyance, although who knows, maybe that would be worth it too!]”
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