No More Lethal Lorries!










6 thoughts on “No More Lethal Lorries!

  1. Until all these dangerous lorries are off the road the drivers of badly designed lorries should be required stop at triffic lights at a point where they can still see the whole of the ASL. This could be Policed by having Cops jump in the drivers seat and fine the drivers that have pulled up to close to see if a cyclist enters the ASL. We are talking about life and death!

  2. It is incredible that the ASL is effectively designed to place cyclists directly in the HGV blind spot. The road layout encourages people to put themselves in the most dangerous position.

    People are dying because of this, each and every year, and ‘officialdom’ just does not seem to register it as a problem.

    1. Stabiliser, it’s not just the ASL but cycle lanes in general. What many experienced cyclists already know is that cycling on the far left of the road puts you out of sight and out of mind. It’s often really dangerous around small cars, never mind when the road is full of hulking great 30 tonne lorries.

      Someone has to implement proper shared-use roads that actively de-segregate traffic, reducing motorists’ speeds

      1. You are right, I’m currently writing a rather long post about this and how TFL, DFT and Borris could have made a real difference to cycling safety on a stretch of road but didn’t!

      2. Chris, I agree to an extent. I would say that it is *poorly designed* cycle lanes that are the problem. Official DfT guidelines state that the minimum width for a cycle lane should be 1.5 m, and yet even this fairly dubious width is rarely, if ever, adhered to, with dire consequences for novice cyclists.

        On busier roads, with heavy traffic flows, the correct strategy would be a 2-3m wide properly segregated path, according to the Dutch design model. I’m not sure ‘sharing’ would work particularly well on roads like Tottenham Court Road, where traffic volume is high, and there is little incentive for drivers to moderate their speed. I think novice cyclists would still be intimidated into the gutter, even with lower traffic speeds.

        Quieter side-streets and residential roads, of course, are more appropriate for a ‘sharing’ strategy, with lower speed limits, and road closures for motor vehicles, that would create a calmer traffic environment.

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