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    Editorialista di Cork: “Ogni volta che salgo su una bicicletta, pedalo come se stessi per avere un incidente”


    Editorialista di Cork: “Ogni volta che salgo su una bicicletta, pedalo come se stessi per avere un incidente”

    https://www.echolive.ie/corkviews/arid-41778257.html

    di Amazing-Yak-5415

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    18 commenti

    1. Locko2020 on

      This hits home. In the bad weather it actually makes drivers more reckless. Not even slowing down overtaking around blind bends and solid white lines.

    2. CommunicationLower51 on

      Everyone on the road is a wanker. Cyclists treat pedestrians the way drivers treat them. Call it overkill if you want but some sort of licensing or exams for adults cycling could go a long way, rather than making it a requirment create an incentive for passing the qualifiication system.

    3. TheBaggyDapper on

      Aha. I suspected they had bad intentions all along. 

    4. Hardtoclose on

      Live every day as if it’s your last and one day you will be right.

    5. Pleasant_Porcelain on

      In Dublin bicyclalists don’t follow the rules of the road. Fly past lights, no regard for one way roads. It’s mental and I come from Italy

    6. Key_Duck_6293 on

      Same. It sucks but still beats being struck in traffic & spending 5k a year for the privilege

    7. Atlantic_Rock on

      In Cork the bike lanes nearly make it worse, because of how they’re laid out. If you’re on them already fine but if not it can dicey getting onto them. Let’s say by the Dunnes along the quays, fine, but there are traffic lights and bus stops you have to weave in and out of.

      Then they just sorta end, and you have to somehow cross into traffic, which isn’t easy in a car let alone a bike the way cork people drive, especially when they dont expect seeing as they think theres a bike lane.

      Then on Washington St. the bike lane is one way and frequently flooded. It all smacks of box checking and doesn’t make anyone much safer.

    8. Fozzybearisyourdaddy on

      Every time eat a nice meal, I must be prepared to take a shit.

    9. phaedrus72 on

      I think it’s the only way to ride.  I’ve always assumed the car driver didn’t see me even if he’s looking straight at me.   A motorcyclist told me that years ago. 

    11. Saint_EDGEBOI on

      Unpopular opinion maybe, but whether I’m cycling, driving or on my motorbike I’m in this mindset. It’s called defensive driving/riding. It’s a good way to be.

    13. Expensive-Total-312 on

      two of my friends have been seriously injured in the last year in cycling accidents, you’d get fed up listening to talk about climate change yet the gov is doing nothing for people actively doing their part by providing infrastructure.

    14. Empty-Stretch-5615 on

      Avid cyclists myself and this heading is so accurate. I imagine every worst possible outcome for the first 2kms before I calm down.

    15. darragh999 on

      This is why it’s so important to create safe cycling infrastructure and push politicians for it. We need to get to a stage like in the netherlands where you’d feel safe even riding without a helmet

    16. Individual-Mud262 on

      This is the only reasonable way to behaviour. When you are the one in the vulnerable position, there is no way in hell I am trusting everyone else in massive SUVs to follow the rules because they don’t and the guards don’t seem too concerned with policing.

    17. Laundry_Hamper on

      Have cycled for something like 15 years, used to train doing 10-15,000 km per year. Was never involved in a traffic accident – until last year, when I was involved in two. Driver’s fault in both cases, both not paying attention. One urban, one rural.

    18. mobby123 on

      I’ve seen three accidents since the new year involving bikes/scooters. Every single time involved a junction and a car turning left onto a cyclist or scooter that had the right of way. Two of them involved a very old lady behind the wheel.

      I cycle to work every day, it’s just not worth taking the chance. You never know who is driving the car beside you and if they’re going to bother checking their surroundings properly before they turn.

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