Bike paths increase the risk of accidents at intersections, said Leif Linderholm in 1984: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Rw-risiko.png&filetimestamp=20040824194221 (Linderholm, Leif: Signalreglerade korsningars funktion och olycksrisk för oskyddade trafikanter – Delrapport 1: Cyklister. Institutionen för trafikteknik, LTH: Bulletin 55, Lund 1984)
Ouch! So the question is ‘was the driver asleep at the wheel’?
Like the Ripon rail crash, no infrastructure can make a difference unless motors are mechanically seperated from the bikes by an insurmountable concrete wall or something. A change in level maybe? Armco? (Which seems to be what Coventry CC think is good enough!)
“Eau Claire police are trying to determine why a 90-year-old man drove his car onto the bike path on West Clairemont Avenue, striking and fatally injuring a cyclist on the trail.”
Um… Because he was 90 years old? And probably unfit to drive any more?
5 miles of my daily commute is on a bike path that runs parallel to a congested highway. I always enjoy passing the cars when they get backed up and feel like I should wave as I go by ; )
My worst accident was on the Lakefront Bike Path in Chicago. Hit a dog and broke several bones (mine) a few years ago. Before you ask – the dog seemed to be fine.
Relevant strip for me too, they just finished a rail-to-trail conversion that goes along my commute to work. Now 3/4 of my commute is on a dedicated entirely separated bike trail. Woo!
Last week I was in the Netherlands with my velomobile for a good reason: http://www.velomobileseminar.com/ . Yes, you will find the best bike paths in the world in the Netherlands. And no, I didn’t enjoy them, you have to be alert all the time. I had one Near-miss with a car and the other velomobile once jumped out of the path in a very hard curve. Sometimes the bike path went behind hedges or directly behind parked cars (luckily no door opened…). I was really happy when I was back in Germany where the bike paths are bad enough to be ignored. It’s just much much much more secure for a fast bike or a velomobile to stick to the normal roads. Don’t separate the traffic depending on the kind of “motor”, but on the speed. Move all “bike paths” into “Slow traffic paths” with a maximum speed of let’s say 20km/h (12 miles/h) and let the faster traffic (yes, that’s also me in my velomobile) stick to the roads.
There’s a pretty old study in Germany which came to the result the riding on the bike path increases your risk of an accident. It doesn’t seem to interest anyone of the infrastructure planners…
Love it!
Shouldn’t Death ride an iron horse instead of being pulled by one ?
A skeletal horse – the bony express.
Scythe blades on the hubcaps would be a nice touch.
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Isn’t that what he’s doing? Albeit, less riding “on,” than “in,” but surely Monsieur Mort will adapt to the times, yes?
sure … but Death on a bike ?
How cool would that be ?
Supercool, that’s what
‘cuz bikes are cool
LIKE LIKE LIKE haha
Bike paths are still no guarantee of safety.
http://www.twincities.com/wisconsin/ci_20979643/eau-claire-bicyclist-riding-bike-trail-struck-killed
Bike paths increase the risk of accidents at intersections, said Leif Linderholm in 1984: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Rw-risiko.png&filetimestamp=20040824194221 (Linderholm, Leif: Signalreglerade korsningars funktion och olycksrisk för oskyddade trafikanter – Delrapport 1: Cyklister. Institutionen för trafikteknik, LTH: Bulletin 55, Lund 1984)
Ouch! So the question is ‘was the driver asleep at the wheel’?
Like the Ripon rail crash, no infrastructure can make a difference unless motors are mechanically seperated from the bikes by an insurmountable concrete wall or something. A change in level maybe? Armco? (Which seems to be what Coventry CC think is good enough!)
“Eau Claire police are trying to determine why a 90-year-old man drove his car onto the bike path on West Clairemont Avenue, striking and fatally injuring a cyclist on the trail.”
Um… Because he was 90 years old? And probably unfit to drive any more?
Don’t forget the cyclist in San Diego that was hit on the bike path by an upside-down SUV.
That doesn’t look like the M25 (The road to hell by Chris Rea)!
Many think that is death’s home turf?
Best YM strip ever.
Death, where did you leave Binky?
I like this one too
s/w won’t allow me to just say ‘Like’ !
Why can’t we have a ‘like’ counter?
Like!
You just can get over this, eh? He he he
Susan has him.
So this is how Bill Door gets to work!
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Maybe he’s on his way to give Bill & Ted a ride.
Excellent!
Or the car that followed the bicycle rider onto the golf cart path to run him down.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120831/ARTICLES/120839906
Skeletor… if you’re looking for He-Man, you’re definitely in the wrong strip!
Is this the mysterious SUV driver?
5 miles of my daily commute is on a bike path that runs parallel to a congested highway. I always enjoy passing the cars when they get backed up and feel like I should wave as I go by ; )
Nice to see Bengt Ekerot make a guest appearance in this strip.
My worst accident was on the Lakefront Bike Path in Chicago. Hit a dog and broke several bones (mine) a few years ago. Before you ask – the dog seemed to be fine.
I’m guessing the right hand of death is clasping a cell phone? Maybe a Starbucks Latte?
That is how I felt on my commute to school today.
Relevant strip for me too, they just finished a rail-to-trail conversion that goes along my commute to work. Now 3/4 of my commute is on a dedicated entirely separated bike trail. Woo!
http://departmentfortransport.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/quote1.jpg
Call me thick-as-a-whale-omelette, but how is the photo and caption relevant?
Its a well known fact that Death rides a Huffy.
Yehuda has it right. Bike paths range from death traps to safe and pleasant cycling highways.
Because I could not stop for Death,
he kindly stopped for me;
The bike path stood in his way;
two wheels (not four) was the key.
Nice! And you can sing it to “The Yellow Rose of Texas”!
Last week I was in the Netherlands with my velomobile for a good reason: http://www.velomobileseminar.com/ . Yes, you will find the best bike paths in the world in the Netherlands. And no, I didn’t enjoy them, you have to be alert all the time. I had one Near-miss with a car and the other velomobile once jumped out of the path in a very hard curve. Sometimes the bike path went behind hedges or directly behind parked cars (luckily no door opened…). I was really happy when I was back in Germany where the bike paths are bad enough to be ignored. It’s just much much much more secure for a fast bike or a velomobile to stick to the normal roads. Don’t separate the traffic depending on the kind of “motor”, but on the speed. Move all “bike paths” into “Slow traffic paths” with a maximum speed of let’s say 20km/h (12 miles/h) and let the faster traffic (yes, that’s also me in my velomobile) stick to the roads.
There’s a pretty old study in Germany which came to the result the riding on the bike path increases your risk of an accident. It doesn’t seem to interest anyone of the infrastructure planners…