Designed In Risk – The Ranty Highwayman

One of the staples of the modern media click bait outrage manufactured culture war is the one where a video is shown ostensibly of a “cyclist” doing something “wrong”; often pivoting to a “who was in the wrong” debate

It must have some positive effect for the organs that spout this claptrap – and by positive, I mean revenue, otherwise why do it? Maybe it really is a culture war, maybe just clicks for ad payments – who really knows or indeed cares; it is a cultural product of ignorance, indifference and mendacity often displayed by the UK media on many subjects.
What is pretty much never discussed is the environment; the design of the highway space, or how the local authority has decided to treat people (regardless of their chosen mode) either through design or more likely, the gradual creep of bad ideas. This week, I am going to have a delve into a couple of click-bait videos and look at them from a Sustainable Safety point of view.
The first video features at the start of a report by ITV into the introduction of London’s Safer Lorry Scheme by the Mayor of London which includes the direct vision standard. The actual video is probably a few years old, but thanks to someone having a Strong Opinion on cyclist behaviour, it was tweeted out and you can have a watch of it here and below;

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