Circular on the road is not as risky
Circular cycling in Valencia today is no more risky than doing other means of transport. Circulation road, away from what people believe, merely involves risk that he may face a motorist who gets exposure, because your body body, we add the speed you can achieve. In fact, unlike what usually happens on the road, where the rider often goes unnoticed (hence the reason you want to move in parallel or in groups) are rare end collisions from behind. In town, the driver is much more attentive to what happens in front of him, as are many obstacles you may encounter. Accidents usually come including parked car doors that open, joining the route through which the rider vehicles, intersections, overtaking distances and close without saving the bike path for vehicles that want to abandon the route through which the rider. Thus, the urban cyclist, to travel safely it just simply move to the center of the lane and made visible, take ownership of their space. In this way, forces you to be ahead in the next lane and not in the same lane where it circulates no accident by opening doors and better brand space, keeping it off the flow in the turns that make other drivers take another road. Even, it would be interesting to be allowed (which has declined to the council in order) to be parallel in pairs within a lane, in order to reinforce what has been said.
I go down the sidewalk, there is no single solution valid far collectively What good is a cyclist on the sidewalk? "To create discomfort and even accidents to pedestrians? Why continue to give carte blanche to the car in the city? A cyclist on the sidewalk is the anti-urban cyclist image of solidarity and responsibility that has been so far.
The paradox of the false security of the bike lane
The movement on the bike path is in principle more relaxed, less stressful, but paradoxically more risky. Because of its narrowness is more likely to crash by opening doors for him to be circular as always separated from parked cars. Is prone to accidents involving pedestrians often invade without notice, but above all makes the cyclist down the guard, they unconsciously feel more secure. The fact is that most accidents I know, including the last two deaths have occurred in Valencia, have been in the bike lane intersection with the road and especially in those intersections where also there is an amber light which leads to turning vehicles right onto another street. Due to the deaths resulting from these steps, the priority is to transform these lights are red lights while green for pedestrians and cyclists and mark crosses with the bike path a few yards before, road markings and signs in vertical.
is necessary a change in mobility policies
But what they really need to do is pacify the traffic, not only for cyclists but for all citizens, pedestrians, including children and seniors, and drivers in general. So far, the city is at the service of traffic and not vice versa as would be logical. Should be given a radical change of mobility policies What is more important the flow of traffic or the lives of citizens?
city average speed does not exceed 20km / h, however, there are peak speed between traffic lights and traffic lights often exceed 50 km / h and often are around 100km / h, however, only those peaks do not contribute to shorter travel times, but they contribute significantly to the risk of accidents. So we have to make the streets safe, slow, Street 30, ciclocalles, pedestrian streets ...
The image of cycling, a mirror of how we see those who govern
Valencia ordinance, and some measures of the DGT in As for the rider just to give a bad image of cycling. It is the image of man or woman battleships, armored to protect against the danger posed by vehicles motor, which can not be controlled. You have to wear a helmet, reflective and perhaps reinforcing, if not so grotesque it could be the image which, as we propose, is more unsightly than you can find on the public highway. And of course, the bike does not sell well among the citizens, not only because they do not go dressed cool robot, but given that this image of cycling is dangerous. Far from these images of places where there are hardly any deaths among the group cycling, despite not wearing helmets or vests, and always, as in the Mediterranean and Italian Ferrara, find coexisting human speed in pedestrian areas or through traffic, parents or mothers carrying their two children on the bike, grandmothers, grandfathers and children, masters of their own autonomy, giving them a simple contraption with two wheels and pedals.
Llópez Antonio Moreno
collective Spokesman Valencia en Bici
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The danger of cycling PROVINCES
05/30/2010 Circular cycling in Valencia today is no more risky than doing other means of transport. Circulation road, away from what people believe, merely involves risk that he may face a motorist who gets exposure, because your body body, we add the speed you can achieve. In fact, unlike what usually happens on the road, where the rider often goes unnoticed (hence the reason you want to move in parallel or in groups) are rare end collisions from behind. In town, the driver is much more attentive to what happens in front of him, as are many obstacles you may encounter. Accidents usually come including parked car doors that open, joining the route through which the rider vehicles, intersections, overtaking distances and close without saving the bike path for vehicles that want to abandon the route through which the rider. Thus, the urban cyclist, to travel safely it just simply move to the center of the lane and made visible, take ownership of their space. In this way, forces you to be ahead in the next lane and not in the same lane where it circulates no accident by opening doors and better brand space, keeping it off the flow in the turns that make other drivers take another road. Even, it would be interesting to be allowed (which has declined to the council in order) to be parallel in pairs within a lane, in order to reinforce what has been said.
I go down the sidewalk, there is no single solution valid far collectively What good is a cyclist on the sidewalk? "To create discomfort and even accidents to pedestrians? Why continue to give carte blanche to the car in the city? A cyclist on the sidewalk is the anti-urban cyclist image of solidarity and responsibility that has been so far.
The paradox of the false security of the bike lane
The movement on the bike path is in principle more relaxed, less stressful, but paradoxically more risky. Because of its narrowness is more likely to crash by opening doors for him to be circular as always separated from parked cars. Is prone to accidents involving pedestrians often invade without notice, but above all makes the cyclist down the guard, they unconsciously feel more secure. The fact is that most accidents I know, including the last two deaths have occurred in Valencia, have been in the bike lane intersection with the road and especially in those intersections where also there is an amber light which leads to turning vehicles right onto another street. Due to the deaths resulting from these steps, the priority is to transform these lights are red lights while green for pedestrians and cyclists and mark crosses with the bike path a few yards before, road markings and signs in vertical.
is necessary a change in mobility policies
But what they really need to do is pacify the traffic, not only for cyclists but for all citizens, pedestrians, including children and seniors, and drivers in general. So far, the city is at the service of traffic and not vice versa as would be logical. Should be given a radical change of mobility policies What is more important the flow of traffic or the lives of citizens?
city average speed does not exceed 20km / h, however, there are peak speed between traffic lights and traffic lights often exceed 50 km / h and often are around 100km / h, however, only those peaks do not contribute to shorter travel times, but they contribute significantly to the risk of accidents. So we have to make the streets safe, slow, Street 30, ciclocalles, pedestrian streets ...
The image of cycling, a mirror of how we see those who govern
Valencia ordinance, and some measures of the DGT in As for the rider just to give a bad image of cycling. It is the image of man or woman battleships, armored to protect against the danger posed by vehicles motor, which can not be controlled. You have to wear a helmet, reflective and perhaps reinforcing, if not so grotesque it could be the image which, as we propose, is more unsightly than you can find on the public highway. And of course, the bike does not sell well among the citizens, not only because they do not go dressed cool robot, but given that this image of cycling is dangerous. Far from these images of places where there are hardly any deaths among the group cycling, despite not wearing helmets or vests, and always, as in the Mediterranean and Italian Ferrara, find coexisting human speed in pedestrian areas or through traffic, parents or mothers carrying their two children on the bike, grandmothers, grandfathers and children, masters of their own autonomy, giving them a simple contraption with two wheels and pedals.
Llópez Antonio Moreno
collective Spokesman Valencia en Bici
Related
this:
The danger of cycling PROVINCES
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