wrangler_rover wrote:One could say that there's no such thing as a dangerous cycle lane, the cycles on it make it dangerous.
Seems to me from the video that if both cyclists had been going slower and paying more attention, they would have been able to stop or avoid each other
Very good point, and one which applies to all environments. For example, if the pavement is cracked or uneven and a pedestrian trips, really it just shows they weren't looking where they were going! (Although I wouldn't want to be the one to say it to their face!)
Similarly if a cyclist hits a pothole and crashes - well, don't ride into them (doh!) and it would be OK!
I suppose what we should say is that the environment can either facilitate safety or hinder it, in the knowledge that the majority of people do sometimes miss potholes, ride into a blind situation faster than they ought, etc.
In this case, I think putting advertising on a bus shelter at the bottom of a hill which blocks sight further down the path, increases the chance that people will fail to slow as much as they would if they could see oncoming traffic (although isn't this is basically the same as saying that it creates dangerous situations that would otherwise not exist, and hence, is dangerous?)
Food for thought. I'm considering writing to FETA to ask them to reconsider the opaqueness of the shelter.
