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Posted on Friday, March 21 @ 23:00:00 GMT by max.wallis
Time to come out on Cycling
David Cameron has behaved as so many cyclists do, infringing the law in minor ways in the interests of personal safety and efficiency.
see Report on http://www.cyclingnorthwales.co.uk/pages/davd_camer.htm
CTC's Kevin Mayne rightly defended his actions, but should surely go further.
The episode emphasises that policy to make cyclists subject to the same laws as vehicles has failed. It has failed to win cyclists' general consent, and failed because the promises to provide safe networks for cyclists have produced little.
Welsh Assembly officials proposed 10 years ago that cyclist should use separate cycleways and not their trunk roads. We challenged them to cost that proposal – and it vanished (from TAN 18). Those non-cyclists who insist cyclists must obey the traffic laws, while they promise separate safe cycleways, deserve a similar response – get real!
There is policy to permit contra-flow cycling on one-way streets unless there are specific (safety) reasons against. That policy is largely ignored by officials, so David Cameron and many others just use the one-way streets when they find it safe.
Allowing cyclists an automatic left filter at traffic lights was one of the strongly-supported proposals in Steven Norris's 1998 National Cycling Strategy. Yet the civil service and government made sure it got lost.
So let’s see David Cameron come out and say cyclists need different law from vehicles, designed to view cyclists between pedestrians and vehicles in a hierarchy for using our streets and shared urban spaces.
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