Trafalgar Square

paulwood
paulwood Posts: 231
edited June 2007 in Commuting chat
A couple of days next week, I think the 25th and 26th, the police are going to put a couple of lorries in Trafalgar Square so pedestrians and cyclists can wander round them and sit in the cab and look in the mirrors, to give people more of an idea where the blind spots are.

Seems a good idea but perhaps getting lorry drivers to sit in their own cabs and realise how much they can't see would help as well.

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  • cupofteacp
    cupofteacp Posts: 578
    or maybe get lorry drivers to ride a bike trhough london in the rush hour

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  • dondare
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    http://www.cyclingplus.co.uk/forum/topi ... _ID=133386

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  • domtyler
    domtyler Posts: 2,648
    edited March 2011
    ****DO NOT GO!!!****

    This is a trick, they are going to to wait until all the cyclists turn up and then crush them by repeatedly turning left across their path in the lorry.

    You have been warned.

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  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    Possibly there'll be police there telling us that only red-light-jumpers will be spared.

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  • dubnobass
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    I'm vaguely curious to know where they're going to be parked. It's hard enough work getting off Whitehall, round Trafalgar Square and up Charing Cross Road as it is, without a pair of big fat lorries being permanently parked there as well!

    Maybe I will go across Waterloo Bridge and through Aldwych on those days..

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  • twowheeledwriter
    twowheeledwriter Posts: 129
    I'll have no truck with this sort of thing
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  • zimzum42
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    You can rest assured they'll not be parked at the side of the road, they'll be on the square....



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  • b@kes
    b@kes Posts: 9
    what a load of crap
    this is just treating the symptoms of the disease rather than finding the cure
  • paulwood
    paulwood Posts: 231
    "what a load of crap
    this is just treating the symptoms of the disease rather than finding the cure"

    seems to me that any cyclist who understands better about the dangers of being on the inside of a lorry has more of a chance of avoiding the disease.

    there is only ever going to be one victim in this....
  • Oddballcp
    Oddballcp Posts: 197
    If you really want to know what a lorry driver sees when he's driving, then spend 14 hours driving in France, have two hours sleep and some breakfast waiting to get on the ferry/train, start driving again on the left side of the road without ajusting whatever mirrors you have, and enter London after three hours of motorway and start fighting the traffic there.
    I can see the lorries and that's what keeps me alive.

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  • Roadrider
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    They can't always see you.

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  • rgisme
    rgisme Posts: 1,598
    My commute doesn't take me past TS. It wouldn't be much of a detour but I don't think I'll be bothering - I just assume they can't see sweet FA. What would perhaps be more useful to some cyclists than finding where and how big the blindspots are would be understanding the amount of room an HGV needs around it to turn, the line the wheels follow, and not to get into any of that space when there's any possibility of a turn coming up.
  • The Endorser
    The Endorser Posts: 191
    Sounds like a stupid waste of time - any lorry driver that hits an innocent cyclist should be compelled to cycle through Oxford Street on Christmas Eve, when every lorry/car/bus drived is pizzed drunk and in a hurry to knock off and get home, and see how he likes it.

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  • halfords wizzkid
    halfords wizzkid Posts: 1,387
    moral of the story is 'Don't go up the left hand side fo lorries' nuff said really!!

    There are signs on the back of lorries saying 'Danger cyclists' or something like that.

    People who get crushed can't seem to read or think logically! I do feel sorry for the people who have died but it's true.



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  • BentMikey
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    You forget that it's not always the cyclist's fault. I wouldn't be surprised if a number of the accidents were caused by impatient lorry drivers doing a left hook, that leaves the cyclist with no chance whatsoever.
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  • domtyler
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    Ultimately we should not have such dangerous vehicles with massive blind spots and huge turning curves in our cities at all, especially during peak hours. They certainly should not be allowed to drive on our streets without curtains around the wheels.

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