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Transport secretary considers ban on floating bus stops in UK cycle lanes (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Mex to c/unitedkingdom

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[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well I think the stupidity of the proposal is summarised here:

There is also some doubt about the safety case for a ban. In London, which has the highest number of floating bus stops in the UK, statistics for 2020-22 showed that of 623 pedestrians injured after being struck by a bike, 0.6% of them – four in all – were hit at floating bus stops. None of these incidents appeared to have happened at a designated crossing point. Over the same period, 11,400 pedestrians and 15,000 cyclists were injured after being hit by motor vehicles.

[–] Tweak 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I mean apparently this is being driven by charities for the blind, but you can even see in the main image for the article that there is a defined crossing over the cycle lane with different texture pavement tiles. The blind are far from being ignored here.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

It's just a typical conservative tactic - pretend to care about one group whilst actually hating on another. Ask them to do something actually useful for the group they pretend to care for and you'll find that "sadly" it's just too expensive.

[–] HumanPenguin 4 points 6 months ago

Do not live in London. So never come accross these stops.

But as I use a white stick. I really don't see an issue. Cyclists can be awful when looking out for visually impaired. But it seems the bus stop would likely force a slow down and expectation of passengers.