Bicycle stopping distance and road design
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby il padrone » Wed Jan 16, 2013 1:58 pm
Bunnyhopping gets a bit more difficult as well, when they build them like this:
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby Strawburger » Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:53 pm
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby il padrone » Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:11 pm
Not always the case that large land acquisition is required. Here's what the Dutch do to redesign their normal intersections (no additional land required).Strawburger wrote:Retrofitting would be difficult. Removing the "car is king" culture would change that but it comes at a cost. In Sydney, you would be looking at $4m in property acquisition per roundabout. Not something any council or state authority would be willing to spend.
Of course it does involve removing the "car is king" mentality as you say. It actually doesn't reduce the driving lane space either, just defines things better at the junction.
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby m@ » Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:23 pm
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby il padrone » Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:34 pm
Not if you get out of that "bike lane"* and claim the traffic lane required (as is your legal option).m@ wrote:Bikes are required to yield to all traffic, including from behind, at every exit,
* Possibly not a legal bike lane as they need to have posted roadside signs - so the paint is just a guideline.
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby Strawburger » Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:37 pm
Matt, that's a cracker if only the bike lane had priority!
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby Alien27 » Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:17 pm
people behind you shouldn't be a safety issue for you if you slow in a slow and predictable manor.
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby sogood » Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:23 pm
That's a lot of green space and a large roundabout, something we can only dream about in inner Sydney. And given that kind of space, OP wouldn't have had problems even with an existing inner Sydney roundabout design.m@ wrote:...and here's an Australian approach (from the Kingston bypass south of Hobart):
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby wellington_street » Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:47 pm
That is horrifically dangerous for cyclists! DIRE (intentional misspelling) should be hung out to dry for that. The traditional shunt-cyclists-onto-the-path-and-cross-each-arm is far safer!m@ wrote:...and here's an Australian approach (from the Kingston bypass south of Hobart):
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:58 pm
Look up the definition of "impracticable" in the dictionary and there's a pic of that monstrosity.m@ wrote:...and here's an Australian approach (from the Kingston bypass south of Hobart):
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby il padrone » Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:02 pm
However it has no real legal power to force this on cyclists. Ultimately cyclists are road vehicles and the road authorities must accommodate them in road designs.wellington_street wrote:That is horrifically dangerous for cyclists! DIRE (intentional misspelling) should be hung out to dry for that. The traditional shunt-cyclists-onto-the-path-and-cross-each-arm is far safer!
Just a huge shame that they do it so poorly !
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby human909 » Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:12 pm
Whether it is legal or not legal I'd do that regardless. However as you probably agree that isn't the point. You and I are confident and assertive cyclists who know how be safe on the roads. Unfortunately so many cyclists don't and infrastructure that makes it more unsafe is unforgivable.il padrone wrote:Not if you get out of that "bike lane"* and claim the traffic lane required (as is your legal option).
* Possibly not a legal bike lane as they need to have posted roadside signs - so the paint is just a guideline.
Definitely. However that configuration of bike lanes is the "correct" configuration and in alignment with the actual road rules.wellington_street wrote:That is horrifically dangerous for cyclists! DIRE (intentional misspelling) should be hung out to dry for that. The traditional shunt-cyclists-onto-the-path-and-cross-each-arm is far safer!
My recent favourite piece of appalling bike lane design is this sort of thing. Here the bike lane finishes before each side street with give way lines. This essentially makes it absolutely legal for a car to left hook you! A bicycle must give way to vehicles when leaving that section of the bike lane, so essentially if you get left hooked you may be held liable!
In fact the more I consider it the more appalling it becomes. This might be time for a complaint!
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby wellington_street » Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:56 am
I don't see the traditional shunt-cyclists-onto-the-path-and-cross-each-arm arrangement as forcing cyclists to do anything - I see it as giving unconfident and slower cyclists to option to cross each arm safely and giving assertive, faster cyclists the prompt to take the lane and proceed through the roundabout as a vehicle.il padrone wrote:However it has no real legal power to force this on cyclists. Ultimately cyclists are road vehicles and the road authorities must accommodate them in road designs.wellington_street wrote:That is horrifically dangerous for cyclists! DIRE (intentional misspelling) should be hung out to dry for that. The traditional shunt-cyclists-onto-the-path-and-cross-each-arm is far safer!
Just a huge shame that they do it so poorly !
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby wellington_street » Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:03 pm
The reason that one ends where it ends is the tram stop - looking down the rest of the street the lane seems to be continuous across the other side streets. Given the constraints of the location there's not a lot you can do?human909 wrote:My recent favourite piece of appalling bike lane design is this sort of thing. Here the bike lane finishes before each side street with give way lines. This essentially makes it absolutely legal for a car to left hook you! A bicycle must give way to vehicles when leaving that section of the bike lane, so essentially if you get left hooked you may be held liable!
In fact the more I consider it the more appalling it becomes. This might be time for a complaint!
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Re: Bicycle stopping distance and road design
Postby il padrone » Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:04 pm
As you used the word "shunt" I assumed you meant that all cyclists would be pushed/expected to ride this route.wellington_street wrote:I don't see the traditional shunt-cyclists-onto-the-path-and-cross-each-arm arrangement as forcing cyclists to do anything - I see it as giving unconfident and slower cyclists to option to cross each arm safely and giving assertive, faster cyclists the prompt to take the lane and proceed through the roundabout as a vehicle.
Regardless, many cyclists will continue to ride on the road. As I said, it is a great shame that such roundabouts in Australia are not designed to better allow this to occur with greater safety. The European design I showed does expect cyclists to use the off-road path, but gives priority to the cyclists when crossing the road arms ie. makes it easier for cyclists to ride.
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