5 biggest safety issues facing BNA members

[The 2nd Womble]

Please list them for the first few days in point form as I can't find the polling option. I know some of you will want to debate them straight away, but lets try to keep enough focus to get this off to a healthy start.
I want us all to isolate the 5 biggest issues and then work on solutions.

[sogood]

1) Pot holes and road debris.
2) Opening car doors.
3) Unruly moving motor vehicles.
4) Pedestrians.
5) Fellow cyclists.

[Oxford]

1. ignorant road users, including pedestrians and drivers (drivers includes motorists and cyclists).
2. poor road design.
3. too easy to get a license.
4. too easy to keep a license.
5. not enough enforcement of all the road rules. lets not have blitzes, lets just have all laws enforced evenly all the time.

[biftek]

1) Pot holes and road debris.
2) Fellow cyclists.
3) Pedestrians.
4) biking infrastructure
5)

[Ozkaban]

1. Almost no dedicated cycling infrastructure. Lots of (ok, some) shared road facilities, shared pedestrian facilities, but almost no *bike* facilities.
2. Aggressive/inattentive drivers such as the jerk bus driver this morning who wanted his lane plus half of the cycle lane I was in just for kicks.
3. Poorly designed and maintained infrastructure. Different from above, here I mean cycle lanes that disappear, pot holes, etc.
4. Inattentive/aggressive cyclists
5. Inattentive pedestrians.

[Sam_boss260]

1) Poor infrastructure / bike lane designs
2) Opening car doors.
3) Agressive / uneducated moving motor vehicles.
4) Pot holes and road debris
5)

[CommuRider]

1. Drivers
2. Pedestrians
3. Dogs
4. Other cyclists
5. Poor cycling infrastructure

[othy]

1. Daily Telegraph
2. Alan Jones
3. Barry O'Farrell
4. Duncan Gay
5. People who value the opinions of the above

[mikesbytes]

1. Daily Telegraph
2. Alan Jones
3. Barry O'Farrell
4. Duncan Gay
5. People who value the opinions of the above

I'll go with that but replace 5
1. Daily Telegraph
2. Alan Jones
3. Barry O'Farrell
4. Duncan Gay
5. Taxi's

[Kenzo]

Driver Attitudes
Cyclist Attitudes
Driver Education
Cyclist Education
Apparent lack of support from the enforcers of the law.

[r2160]

1. Lack of driver and cyclist education and patience
2. Lack of driver and cyclist education and patience
3. Lack of driver and cyclist education and patience
4. Lack of driver and cyclist education and patience
5. Lack of driver and cyclist education and patience

We dont need dedicated cycling infrastructure with better driver and cyclist education and patience

cheers
Glenn

[grimbo]

1) Drivers who don't indicate turns - cause of my most scary moments
2) Pot holes
3) opening car doors
4) lack of infrastructure, in particular usable (quiet/cycling specific) alternate routes to avoid major roads
5) couriers - worse than taxi drivers IMO

[herzog]

Texting drivers
Texting drivers
Texting drivers
Texting drivers
Texting drivers

[Nobody]

The car-centric culture of Australia.

[Clubagreenie]

1. Texting drivers
2. Mums around school zones in SUV's
3. belligerent riders on the psp
4. loose gravel
5. pot holes

[sumgy]

Other riders who are not used to riding in a bunch.
Other riders who half wheel me.
Bad coffee.
Getting caught short in winter while wearing bibs (those public toilets are cold)
Getting to my bunch ride and finding another rider in exactly the same Rapha kit as me.

OK not so much safety.
More dangerous.

[InTheWoods]

1. Lack of driver and cyclist education and patience
2. Lack of driver and cyclist education and patience
3. Lack of driver and cyclist education and patience
4. Lack of driver and cyclist education and patience
5. Lack of driver and cyclist education and patience

We dont need dedicated cycling infrastructure with better driver and cyclist education and patience

cheers
Glenn

+1

Although, dedicated infrastructure brings out "new" cyclists who would otherwise not start up. As they get more confident, they shift more onto roads. And the more cyclists on roads, the safer we all are.

[uncle arthur]

1. Almost no dedicated cycling infrastructure. Lots of (ok, some) shared road facilities, shared pedestrian facilities, but almost no *bike* facilities.
2. Aggressive/inattentive drivers such as the jerk bus driver this morning who wanted his lane plus half of the cycle lane I was in just for kicks.
3. Poorly designed and maintained infrastructure. Different from above, here I mean cycle lanes that disappear, pot holes, etc.
4. Inattentive/aggressive cyclists
5. Inattentive pedestrians.

+1

[KonaCommuter]

Bike lanes that vanish just as you need them the most (Brisbane) That could be classed as poor infrastructure.

[Mulger bill]

1. Mobile phone use by all and sundry.
2. Taxi drivers.
3. Bike lanes full of crap.
4. Bike lanes used for parking.
5. Arrogant drivers with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.

[blossy84]

1. Almost no dedicated cycling infrastructure. Lots of (ok, some) shared road facilities, shared pedestrian facilities, but almost no *bike* facilities.
2. Aggressive/inattentive drivers such as the jerk bus driver this morning who wanted his lane plus half of the cycle lane I was in just for kicks.
3. Poorly designed and maintained infrastructure. Different from above, here I mean cycle lanes that disappear, pot holes, etc.
4. Inattentive/aggressive cyclists
5. Inattentive pedestrians.

+1

+2

[AUbicycles]

1. Road obstacles and debris
2. Road Planning and available infrastructure (safety)
3. Driver Awareness
4. Cyclist Safe riding (other cyclists)
5. Public image of cycling

[The 2nd Womble]

Road and path debris is certainly a big one here. I am a little surprised but it is a good'n. The Brisbane City Council is beginning to look more closely at it. So they've said.

[Nobody]

Road and path debris is certainly a big one here. I am a little surprised but it is a good'n.

Probably rated highly due to people using 23s and high pressure, therefore making their bikes sensitive to debris or poor road surfaces.

[Xplora]

1. Aggressive/careless drivers
2. poor road surfaces (permanent - bad bitumen, uneven concrete, puddle forming depressions)
3. Poor road surfaces (temporary - glass, sticks)
4. Requirement to wear a helmet
5. Poor infrastructure and planning