trampyjoe:
One of the problems you’ve got is that Boris, in his infinite wisdom, stuck a cycle superhighway across the Bow roundabout. Another problem is that the majority of london cyclists are bloody idiots (no lights in the dark, red light jumpers, go up the inside of buses/hgvs etc etc) and think that the blue line of the cycle superhighway means they’ve got right of way. Clearly they haven’t.
Enforcement of some kind is definitely needed for cyclists and, speaking as a cyclist, would happily report others for being [zb].
fair play to you trampyjoe
Slackbladder:
Is there any chance, any at all, that any of these incidents were the fault of the drivers? Like the one last week when both the truck & cyclist were stopped at lights, on green they move off, cyclist gets away quicker, truck catches up and runs into the back of, and over, the cyclist killing him. Or the one in Nantwich today where the truck hit & killed a cyclist and didn’t stop.
As for what will happen, I think speedyguy is correct, I think it will go against the trucking community and some form of ban will come in sooner or later. Remember nobody likes trucks, or juggernauts, thundering around the place do they.
as i said in my post i do not know the full facts i heard it on the news and you know what the news is like,if the hgv driver is in the wrong then they should prosecute,there was a case once in london where a cement mixer truck overtook a female cyclist and then turned left in front of her dragging her under the wheels which then went over her head,instant death,now he should have been done for murder as he knew she was there,it was all caught on cctv but he got away with it by telling the court he did not see her,
putting the squeeze on etc,