Cycling Safety in Ireland

Cycling Safety in Ireland

This is a video on Cycling Safety in Ireland. This is becoming a hot topic in Ireland at the moment. Cycling is an absolutely great way of keeping fit so a lot of people are taking to it.

However now there is more and more demand for safe cycling spaces in the country. Currently more and more cycle lanes are being provided. However their mix up with traffic lanes is causing a lot of controversy.

Added to that as there is now more cyclists the authorities are becoming concerned about the increase in cyclist road death’s and serious injuries.

It seems that they are intent on hammering motorists for this, instead of providing proper high quality cycle lanes completely apart from traffic lanes for motorists.

Thus, a lot of motorists, who are now seeing a lot (not all!!!) of cyclists completely disregarding traffic laws, are now getting very concerned about cyclists doing this as the cyclists seem to be getting off scott free without being caught and sanctioned.

Lately a law was brought in that mandates motorists to stay at least one meter from cyclists in a 50 kph zone and 1.5 meters in a higher speed limit area. Some motorist’s think this law should also applied in equal measure to cyclists and stopped them from going too close to motorist’s also in the same manner. Cyclist’s regularly cycle up between car’s that are stopped and the roadside to within less than the 1 or 1.5 meters that motorist’s must be from a cyclist.

The government’s response when this was pointed out was that sure when motorist’s start to move they should then see the cyclist in their mirror’s doing this and not move!!! Fair enough it seems.

Just one problem there. As a driving instructor for over a decade and a half now I can tell you not too many motorist’s look in their mirror’s moving off!!!

The cyclist is then within the distance to the car that motorist’s should be keeping from the cyclist. Then, even if the car does not move, and the cyclist hits the car who is going to get the blame???

Hopefully not the motorist in such a case. Such a case is bound to occur at some stage. In the court then the Government will look pretty won’t they for making such a pointed, unfair law!!!

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