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AngryEnraged to report yet another cyclist down, this time hit by a bus, between the Big Bay turnoff and Doodles restaurant along Table View beachfront. His condition does not look too critical at this stage, but he has been taken off in an ambulance. Folks this is crazy stuff. We need a serious concerted awareness campaign of some sort ... anyone with any good ideas?

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It really is about time that Pedalpower stopped pussy footing around and spent some of our money on getting signs up and focusing on a motorist AND cyclist education campaign. It also doesn't help much when the chairman makes comments at the scene of a fatal accident where there is NO YELLOW LANE "about riding in the yellow lane".

 

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We need a little bit of an attitude adjustment - all of us!  And then I would strongly recommend:-

 

An awareness campaign to start with bus-drivers and truck drivers where a cyclist actually chat to a group of these drivers and show them the risks that they take when they get to close to a cyclist and how they can screw up their lives and that of the cyclists and his/her family...

Then do the same with taxi drivers...

Then start to use both busses and taxis to advertise safe cycling on.

A small start, but something that can be managed and that will start to make a difference.  You know the saying, eat an elephant bit, by bit.

 

I am certainly willing to get involved, are you?
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We need a little bit of an attitude adjustment - all of us!  And then I would strongly recommend:-

 

An awareness campaign to start with bus-drivers and truck drivers where a cyclist actually chat to a group of these drivers and show them the risks that they take when they get to close to a cyclist and how they can screw up their lives and that of the cyclists and his/her family...

Then do the same with taxi drivers...

Then start to use both busses and taxis to advertise safe cycling on.

A small start' date=' but something that can be managed and that will start to make a difference.  You know the saying, eat an elephant bit, by bit.

 

I am certainly willing to get involved, are you?
[/quote'] Yes!!! But do it for South Africans full stop!! Tell us democracy comes with responsibility and not a belief that we can behave anyway we please!!
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Yes!!! But do it for South Africans full stop!! Tell us democracy comes with responsibility and not a belief that we can behave anyway we please!!

 

following on from the post in the "language thread", this is a word that is soon going to be deleted from the english dictionary.

 

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Its suprising that not more cyclists are hit by busses, most of my close calls come from our friends at Golden Arrow, IMO they are worse than the taxi drivers.

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This is terrible news, yet again. Hope he recovers.

 

With regards to Golden arrow and many transport companies they all have complaints lines. Phone them and keep phoning them. take the number of the bus and report these guys. I do!
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also had two really close calls this morning Angry

 

1 - soccer mom dropping kids of in her Volvo, with serious electrical issues Ermm

2 - assh@le in 4x4 "sorry I didn't see you". NO - you didn't LOOK Censored

 

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