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NEPN child trailer near miss

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  1. Dave
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    I was almost witness to a real horror of a smash up on NEPN involving a wall and a child trailer.

    It was at five ways heading towards Leith. Due to other path users, a cyclist towing said child trailer down the hill had to move over towards their left, perhaps not noticing that there is this weird low wall which has recently been put up hard against the tarmac.

    I was following behind preparing to overtake, and my heart just leapt into my mouth, but it was over (no impact) before I had the presence of mind to do anything other than grab my brake lever.

    Typically, I hadn't bothered with my headcam for a relaxed bimble down the path! It would make you sweat if you didn't know the outcome.

    I hesitate to ask, but why has this bizarro wall been built right up to the tarmac? It looks like it might be to retain the slope behind, but couldn't the contractors have given this a moment's thought and allowed the recommended space (I can't remember, but something like 20cm if not at handlebar height and 50cm at handlebar height seems to ring a bell?)

    But maybe, I suppose... this is Edinburgh.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. SRD
    Moderator

    is that not the old platform edge?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. Min
    Member

    Because Fiveways is being "landscaped" and you always have to landscape things in a way to cause maximum conflict between users. Unless you are building a new motorway or bridge in which case you just bulldoze everything in your path.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I was once sent flying by a curbstone of a narrow segregated cyclepath in London that suddenly changed profiles from a 45 degree drop to the road to a 90 perpendicular.

    While I think that doing some landscaping around Fiveways is a nice idea, it's depressing but not altogether unexpected that the design hasn't gone through cyclist user acceptance testing before being cast in bricks and mortar.

    is that not the old platform edge? not here, no. And the old platform edges are generally at least a foot or so back from the edge of the path.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. SRD
    Moderator

    speaking of curbstones:

    http://road.cc/content/news/139275-brighton-death-trap-bike-lane-fixed-double-quick-time

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. kaputnik
    Moderator

    This is why "proper" countries (i.e. on the continent) use specially profiled curbing to segregate cycle lanes, not stuff designed to defend against the ingress of motor vehicles. Instead we get motorway engineers trying to build cycle lanes.

    Posted 10 years ago #

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