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In article <843f909b-b0eb-49a3-94a8- 76574693668f@h7g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, swldxer1@gmail.com says... > > Good to see that the planners in London have actually acted on a > cycling death trap and redesigned it. Up here in Hull we have had > dozens of lorries capsizing on every one of our 5 docks road > roundabouts, one recently killing a cyclist. The Highways Agency is > looking at the problem and hopefully we will see something similar. > > http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23883499-blackspot-roundabout-where-cyclist-died-gets-a-redesign.do

Great news. As ever with these things, the top priority should be to cause congestion for motorists, even if that temporarily results in an increase in accidents; eventually, the selfish cagers will get so fed up with it that they'll stop driving, and then KSIs will undoubtedly go down (for every motorist who stops driving, KSIs drop by an average of 5.3 over their lifetime).

I'm glad that TfL have clearly got the message that needlessly obstructing motorists is the way to cure all ills.

Guy -- http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/ The usenet price promise: all opinions offered in newsgroups are guaranteed to be worth the price paid.