Friday, 27 March 2009
Cycling in Reading -- is the bush too big?
Living in Newtown I spend a lot of time cycling down the Kennet side into the town centre. This is generally a nice cycle, but it gets a bit hairy round the back of the Queens Road car park. This is because there is a row of shrubs and trees at a sharp bend in the path. These stop you seeing round the corner making collisions more likely. I asked the company who own the car park to cut the shrubs which they have done. I would be interested to hear if people think they need to go any lower?
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Cutting down vegetation to avoid collision because you are speeding? Not always the best argument (though sadly it is one I often encounter with motorists). Why not try going slower? Too many cyclists speed - to the detriment of vulnerable pedestrians.
I do go slowly round the corner! But when the bush was big the corner was blind and there was the possibility of a collision. Now the bush is lower the corner is safer.
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