http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Evening editorial en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:12:45 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12560#post-148639 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:26:00 +0000 Instography 148639@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Martin Porter makes good points about coroners <a href="http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/coroners-and-cyclists-do-they-mix.html">here</a></p> <p>I'm getting a bit sick of this "mutual respect" tosh. There's nothing equal or mutual about it. There's a world of difference between my respect for a bus' capacity to grind me to a paste against a parked car (yes I'm thinking of you, bus on George Street) and any respect they might show me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12560#post-148637 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:16:26 +0000 chdot 148637@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Two wheels v four</p> <p>THE coroner at the inquest into the death of Russian cyclist Venera Minakhmetova, killed at Bow roundabout last year, decided that the cause of her death was that she had jumped red lights. Plainly the coroner was right to point out that this is reckless behaviour, though cyclists claim that, notwithstanding significant changes to Bow roundabout where the accident took place, this is still a junction with confusing signals, of which cyclists remain wary. Indeed, this is not the only tragedy partly attributable to risk-taking behaviour: another inquest heard today that a cyclist was killed riding while intoxicated at Whitechapel.</p> <p>Obviously, all road-users must respect the rules of the road as a matter of courtesy as well as safety. But the consequences of errors for cyclists are more lethal than for motorists. Their sheer vulnerability was manifest yesterday in an accident at Shepherd's Bush, in which a cyclist was pinned under a skip truck. We need more dedicated cycle lanes - which the Mayor has already promised. But we also need a culture of road use in which both motorists and cyclists treat each other with respect.</p> <p>"</p> <p>Standard not News. </p>