Not really to do with safety, but quite a change actually in the management of the suburban railways of the UK.

SW Trains

A similar company wants to build a high speed rail link along our eastern seaboard here, but the airlines don't want that happening as they'd lose a great deal of dollars to a better, cheaper and more environmentally cleaner system. :-(

Cheers.

So in other words, a cheap copy that couldn't handle the load that was exerted on it and now a couple of innocents are being waterboarded for the incompetent failure of their bosses instead.

Cheers.

That sounds about the size of it.

It's the same the whole world over,
It's the poor what gets the blame,
It's the rich what gets the pleasure,
Ain't it all a blooming shame?

Billy Bennett - 1930

Far too many people around here also waste far too much good time watching youtube IMHO these days.

Cheers.

I spend no time at all watching it, but I know how to search it for an apposite reference when I feel the urge.

On my way back from Central Avenue yesterday :-) Shame I didn't have my phone with me :-(

Fortunately it wasn't an hour earlier as there's a primary school just around the corner.

Fortunately it wasn't an hour earlier as there's a primary school just around the corner.

there's only ONE SAFE limit and that's 0 , was very lucky it was only the driver hurt but i wouldn't be in to much of a hurry to administer " pain relief " to the driver if they were over the allowed limit .

Edit : nothing to do if they had been drinking just coz they are scum !!

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Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)

Too fast round the bend or badly secured?

Oops

Too fast round the bend or badly secured?

Oops

Too fast, he was already losing it exiting the previous bend. ;-)

Cheers.

...sometimes in ways that one would not expect!

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Flying object & Motorcyclist

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Flying object & Motorcyclist

One very lucky rider.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Good question

Been a cyclist 50 years
Been a driver 45 years.

IMHO, the cyclist is wrong. You don't race traffic & slow down when a large vehicle gets too close.

His legs were pumping at a constant speed, he did not slow down as you assert.

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Good question

Been a cyclist 50 years
Been a driver 45 years.

IMHO, the cyclist is wrong. You don't race traffic & slow down when a large vehicle gets too close.

The DOT is wrong to put the lane that close.

Here in CA they just make pedal bikes vehicles, which means they can get into car lanes. That's what the bike clubs want. But they also got the shaft as dedicated bike lanes are lanes and the requirement to make the right turn from the lane closest to the curb and the bike lane is a lane.
They did get one concession, that in overtaking the motor vehicle must leave a three foot gap. They didn't address if a bike overtaking a motor vehicle has to leave the same gap. [In the same batch of laws they made lane splitting by motorbikes okay]

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The bottom line bikes and cars are dangerous combination. I love cycling but 1 aggressive person with a motor vehicle can kill a cyclist. Iv'e had motorists come into the bike lane I was pedaling in and physically assault me. I agree with Gary, that bike lane was poorly designed but that does not excuse the truck driver for not exhibiting caution when overtaking any thing be it a pedestrian, cyclist, or motor vehicle.

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that does not excuse the truck driver for not exhibiting caution when overtaking any thing be it a pedestrian, cyclist, or motor vehicle.

Not exhibiting caution?
If that truck were any further to the right it would have been in the lane of the oncoming traffic. Going past the cyclist it was almost on the dividing line & just missing the bollards (or whatever they were) in the middle of the road in various places.

If it's such a big issue, then that cycle lane should be removed & the bikes need to find an alternative route.
Truck drivers, car drivers, motorcycle riders all pay registration for their vehicles, along with ridiculous amounts of insurance. As well as taxes on the fuel they use. They all go towards the construction & maintenance of the roads. Not to mention the drivers and riders are licensed, so hopefully they've at least at some stage were aware of the road rules & passed a test proving that fact, and that is something which they have to pay for.
If pushbike riders want the same rights as other road users, they should have the same responsibilities & requirements- they should pay vehicle registration & they should be licensed. And that will help towards the costs of the work required to make the roads suitable for them to use along with other traffic.

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Grant
Darwin NT

The video clearly shows the lorry driver centrally within the two white lines of his lane.

Look at the second part of the video, where you can see under the trailer (around the 57 second mark)- it was closer to the oncoming traffic dividing lines than it was to the bike path line.
And look at the 9 second mark just as the truck cab goes past the cyclist- you can see the front wheel of the bike at the bottom of the image, as the cyclist is riding almost on top of the white line- well away from the centre of the bike lane.
If the cyclist was in the centre of the bike lane instead of almost on the white line and then moved as far to their left as the truck moved to the right, it wouldn't been anywhere nearly as close as it was.

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Grant
Darwin NT

This woman is lucky to be alive...

INCHES FROM DEATH Heart-stopping moment woman is almost KILLED by a train at a railway crossing captured on dramatic CCTV
Video shows the woman frantically trying to avoid high-speed train hurtling towards he

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3279842/woman-almost-killed-train-railway-station-cctv-video/

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