{"id":17336,"date":"2015-04-23T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17336"},"modified":"2015-04-23T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:43:07","slug":"cyclist-killed-on-nottingham-ring-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17336","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist Killed on Nottingham Ring Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

This BBC story is quite vague<\/a>, but Nottingham\u2019s ring road was closed for several hours after a cyclist was in collision with a motorcycle on 21 April. The cyclist died. It was chaos on the roads (yet again). In this update<\/a>, where the cyclist is named, the BBC has a caption which says:<\/p>\n

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The ring road has some of the heaviest rush hour traffic in Nottingham.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It also has cycle paths either side, to keep cyclists and traffic away from each other for precisely this reason.\"Middleton<\/p>\n

There are no details about what actually happened in this case. However, it is worth noting that a lot of cyclists choose to ignore the cycle paths (except at red lights), many opting instead to purposely cause hold ups just to show that they \u201chave a right to use the roads\u201d (and they DO do that – I used to ride with a group of them). The number doing this has increased dramatically this year, and many of the guilty parties appear to be older people, predominantly male, who have just acquired their bikes.<\/p>\n

As is typical, in the old monkey-see-monkey-do manner, they will have witnessed those \u201ccool\u201d Spandex Boys with their testosterone issues doing it and – without realising their own lack of skills – have decided they\u2019ll have some of that as well.<\/p>\n

The simple fact is that if you stay on a cycle path that was built especially for you to keep you out<\/strong> of traffic, and use crossings properly like other soft-bodied specimens (i.e. pedestrians), your chances of being involved in a collision with a motor vehicle on a major road during rush hour are virtually nil. Of course, pigs might fly, and if you therefore choose to ignore the cycle paths and attempt to ride amongst<\/strong> the traffic during said rush hour, your chances of getting hit rise astronomically.<\/p>\n

I really do hope that there\u2019s some sort of afterlife, because I cannot otherwise see how \u201cbeing right\u201d about cycling on busy roads instead of the adjacent cycle paths is of any use to you at all if you\u2019re lying on a cold slab in a morgue.<\/p>\n

These comments are general, by the way, and are in no way intended to address whatever happened in that original tragic incident on the ring road. Judging by the location of the white bicycle that\u2019s been placed there, the cyclist was using the crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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