Eh??
I wasn’t taking the mick, I was being deadly serious.
Based on his posts in this thread and others I genuinely believe he needs help.
Unless of course he is just trolling in which case the gloves are off.
Jesus Christ!
That was in no way an attack, it was a recommendation based on his posting history.
I genuinely think the guy needs help if he is being serious and not just trolling.
Keyboard warriors are all the same.
I wasn’t out on my bike. I was with my kid who just came out of hospital. I really didn’t need to to be told to STFU by a keyboard warrior.
I certainly didn’t need that last night.
You’ve obviously never been on Twitter (x).
Nope, I don’t do twitter.
Very, very disappointing to see. Perhaps not surprising though.
Hope the kid recovers quick.
About feelings…
Thanks.
Not sure what your point was with the link to Emotional Accountability and why you posted it in reply to me. Care to elaborate?
That you didn’t need a STFU, life was already challenging.
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Here is a pinch point on a road. I had the impression they were to slow traffic down and prevent overtaking on a section of road where doing so could cause accidents:
Yesterday I was cycling from right to left on the top half, up a fairly steep hill and moved out slightly from the edge of the road into a more primary position to deter any one behind me from overtaking at this point.
Yet, a driver decided to try and had to lean my bike over to avoid my handlebars and knocking me off my bike. Luckily I could put a foot down.
The driver did the opposite of slowing down and not-overtaking, by accelerating towards me, and trying to squeeze past me.
He must have shaved at least two seconds off his Sunday afternoon journey with his wife and kids in the car.
And he blared his horn afterwards in retribution for me getting in his way. (I thought a horn was for giving a warning, before any incident).
It’s a shame the Police didn’t see it as he could have been looking at a hefty fine.
Useless and dangerous stuff.
I biked to work daily for my previous job. Last street before arriving to work was a steep climb in a narrow street. Never had any trouble, cars just overtook me.
At some point, someone had the idea to build these structures that “calm traffic” by blocking 1 lane. The only outcome was drivers swerving dangerously. The street where I felt safe riding the bike became a nightmare and I changed my daily route.
The street was wide enough for a car and a bike side by side, even leaving more than 1 m. Somehow, making the street narrower and not allowing cars to overtake bikes calms traffic. What’s the logic behind the “traffic calming” structures? Never got it. Is the “traffic calming” supported by data or just wishful thinking from bored urban designers?
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It depends - in my case the brow (top) of a hill was about 100m on up the road so if a motorist was overtaking another vehicle at this point, it wouldn’t see traffic coming the other way until too late.
If all motorists drove correctly, they’d see that oncoming traffic was obscured from their view and resist overtaking until they were over the hill.
Quite often they are put in after one or more incidents.
I don’t know why they were put in on the road in your photo. The result intended is slowing traffic but I don’t know why that was needed in this case.
Traffic calming (bollards, islands and reduced speed signs) is often put in residential streets used as rat-runs which drivers use to avoid traffic lights and commuter traffic queues.
The fact that these drivers feel they can’t queue with everyone else and need to take a short-cut through residential areas suggests that they are not going to drive considerately through these areas.
I see. The tree is to discourage people from overtaking too close to a blind turn. It makes sense in some way, but it’s much cheaper and safer for everyone to withdraw the driving license of the people that caused that accident.
This is sad. Traffic calming structures are not aimed at the safety of pedestrians or cyclists actually using the streets. It’s just NIMBYs who don’t want people driving through “their” streets.
It would have been good to have a ramp onto the side where bicycles could go over that structure instead of around it.
It’s not a blind turn. It’s on the approach to the brow of a hill. The road is straight.
The tree is small - the trunk is small in diameter and the foliage is well above any line of sight.
The tree is immaterial - it’s the traffic island which is designed to stop people overtaking.
I don’t think that’s true.
Getting people to drive much slower is much safer for people, especially children, in the street.
The chance of death for a pedestrian when hit by a car:
At 30mph (approx. 50km/h): 50%
At 20mph ((approx. 30km/h): 10%
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Ahhh, misunderstood. Anyway, it’s a section with reduced visibility ahead, so an incentive to not overtake is there.
I guess it all depends on the implementation. Some traffic calming structures do serve a purpose. Others, just make the streets less safe.
I wondered what the legal situation would have been if I had actually been knocked off my bike as there is no legal minimum passing distance.
This is what Pro-Velo says (translated):
Several decisions by Swiss courts and legal literature also assume an overtaking distance of at least 1.00 meters. However, this only applies at lower speeds. Above 50 km/h, it should definitely be greater, because being overtaken close to others leads to fright, risky proximity and dangerous lateral wind pressure.
Drivers who cannot maintain this lateral distance must wait for a situation in which there is enough space to overtake. The safety line must not be crossed to overtake bicycles either.
Although, like others, when cycling for recreation, I try to cycle on car-free roads and tracks, or at times of the day when roads are relatively traffic free - sometimes it’s unavoidable - this time I was crossing from one relatively traffic free area to another.
The rain’s been a bummer. I’ve not been commuting by bike for weeks. Maybe an odd day here or there, and I’ve been caught out more than once with a sunny morning then a power-shower trip home in the evening. Bike’s staying at home till the weather perks up a bit more consistently. 
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On Sunday afternoon, I got home just minutes before a massive thunderstorm.
There’s been some rain over the last few weeks. It’s not a light drizzle by any means!
A neighboring village put these in several years ago on a road that AFAIK never had any accidents. They chose the worst places! The first is located where cars turn off the main junction into the neighborhood. It is so soon after the turn that if there’s traffic coming the other way, the bus can’t make the turn and blocks the main road. The second is at the secondary junction, where a garage for a block of flat opens to the road, and the road splits into two smaller roads.
My impression is that people speed more, because they want to quickly get around the obstacle before the oncoming traffic arrives!