| Comment | Spot on - daily cycle commuter between Glasgow and Paisley here, rule number one is to be seen, even if it means feeling “in the way” - and as a people pleaser this has been a difficult lesson for me to learn! If there’s not enough space for them to overtake without me having to go into the dooring zone of parked cars, I’m staying in primary position/middle of the lane. I need them to see me. Even if they do overtake, I’ll be catching up to them at the next set of lights the vast majority of the time.
I don’t enjoy being in the road with cars, though I do enjoy cycling to work far more than I did driving to work. When anyone gets impatient or annoyed I sort of wish they could redirect that annoyance towards the core of the problem - that we don’t have remotely enough connected, separate-from-cars, cycle lanes, and our infrastructure seems to only encourage poor driving and a lack of care.
I’ve seen some countries design continuous pavements for cycles and pedestrians, so that when a car takes the junction they have to slow down and go up a ramp - they’re entering a space for pedestrians instead our system where we have to walk on the road - a space for cars. |
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