After Kim Briggs’s death, cyclists must realise that they are traffic too | David Shariatmadari
While riding a bike it’s too easy to forget the harm you can do to yourself and others. Perhaps Charlie Alliston’s conviction will shake us into vigilance
I love cycling. I am not a bike nut, and those who are would laugh at the secondhand lump of steel that costs more to service than I paid for it. But, like millions of others, I love the feeling of zipping through the city under my own steam. Bikes allow you to be in touch with your surroundings in a way cars don’t. By encasing you in layers of protective metal and cutting you off from noises and smells, cars engender a weird kind of “driver detachment”.
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If you ride a bike, enforcement of the rules is only half-hearted, leading many of us to cut corners
Source: Guardian Transport
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