[Closed] Does Anyone Commute Using A Bicycle? Uni Research Needing Your Help 🙂

Good Luck with that, because in the words of Bronn "theres no cure for being a ****" and thats the natural state for many humans.

Would you be better making a survey monkey to get a bit of structure in the answers?

This is all a bit vague.
For me, "problems/issues" would include everything from inconsiderate drivers to a gate that's dropped on it's hinges making it hard to open one handed.
What are the concepts you've got in mind?

20 miles a day in n out of that london

Segregated cycle routes would make life muchuch nicer

People have been commuting by bike for a century, most of the generic non location specific issues have been sorted.

Biggest issue for me is when I can't be bothered with work?

I commute in a city.

Most issues are around drivers not paying attention and cutting up cyclists, overtaking too close. etc.

Cure - infrastructure investment which prioritizes protection and speedy movement of pedestrians/cyclists. So segregated cycle lanes are the biggy.

Other lesser issues - intentional aggression from drivers and rarely verbal abuse

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It's about the street design. Separate cyclists from the danger with a dense grid of connected, convenient cycle tracks and cycling will be safer and more popular. Gimmicky lorry sensors, airbag helmets, trixi mirrors etc simply won't cut it.

Actually, it's about training ALL road users, it's about getting them ALL to be patient, courteous and respect each other, and adequate Policing and sentencing for ALL motoring offences.

Buses are the biggest pain for me, overtake silently then all of a sudden blocking my way.

Braking downhill approaching the junction I'm aiming to turn to. Do I not brake and signal or brake and not signal and end up implying with my body language that I'm aiming on turing.

Training? Bike ability training has been delivered to something like 1.5 million kids. Over half of them want to cycle to school (according to a survey I saw recently) and yet only 1 or 2 percent of kids actually do. The reason is because they don't want to be (or their parents don't want them to be) riding on the roads with vehicles that weigh 25 to 1000 times what they do and move at 5 to 10 times their speed.

When Seville got a huge increase in cycling recently it was down to infrastructure, not training. The same for NL. We've been 'training' for 60+ years (hands up any drivers who haven't had training?) and look where it's got us. People make mistakes despite training. If I in my car and nowhere near the woman riding to drop the kids off at school then I'm very unlikely to pose a danger to her if I make a mistake. Put her in 'primary' in front of me and a mistake by either party is punished with death or injury, even at low speeds.

I reckon that anywhere there is a rail line, there should be a cyclepath/pedestrian route running parallel to it.

With regular shelters for fixing punctures/donning waterproofs/waiting out the rain/sleeping in when the missus has had enough.

Also re-open all those closed rail lines from the eighties.

And bring back trams.

And stop giving all the rail discounts to people who rarely use the train - help out the daily commuter. Stop rail companies claiming buying a weekly ticket saves x% when they know full well that it won't be used at weekends.

And more free bikes please. And tyres. And less rain. And wind. Especially less wind.

mickolas for Prime Minister!

OP - you need to do something more structured I think. But a few random thoughts from me:
1. Great social acceptance of cycling - it's the only time I ever receive verbal abuse from strangers
2. Higher driving standards and more care taken to drive within the law
3. Enforcement of driving standards, speed limits and red light jumping/amber gambling - primarily by drivers but some cyclists too
4. Non-compulsory but significantly wider participation in Bikeability
5. Education of drivers about how cyclists are taught to ride. So when I'm riding out of the door zone so I don't get knocked off in front of you, back off, rather than leaning on your horn, pulling off a punishment pass and then turning at the next right turn as the moron did this morning. In his/her mind I;m sure their behaviour was justified as I was 'in the way' when in fact I I was riding according to Bikeability and Cyclecraft best practice...
6. For my money, separate infrastructure achieves non of the behaviour changes required, it just puts cyclists 'out of the way' as some kind of second class citizens who have no right to be on the main highway. Funnily enough cycling on a main road is fine when drivers drive carefully...

Must own car
Must use car
Must overtake cyclist

Snipers on rooftops for all highest code offenders

We wouldn't need cages at the zoo if we could just train all the animals to behave nicely. 😉

I don't really have any issues with drivers. It's the quality of the roads themselves that bugs me.

I'd like to see more investment in terms of resurfacing and dedicated cycle tracks, to improve the experience.

Id quite like an off-road route to work too. That'd be nice.

Left of centre, but government support for employers to provide cycling infrastructure - bike parking, showers, etc.

Actually i was going to write segregate but i agree with brooess

cycling on a main road is fine when drivers drive carefully...

When I suggested a staff changing room at work, my grounds manager said, with a completely straight face, we could put up a curtain in the (completely transparent, outdoor) bike shelter.

And 😀 MoreCashThanDash

I commute by bicycle,
One job is a couple of miles away across the city centre.
Another is about 8 miles out of the city.

To be honest, the drivers don't bother me. Sometimes they act a bit impatiently or beep the horn for seemingly spurious reasons, but they do the same to other car drivers too.
You do feel more vulnerable on the bike, but that's the nature of it.

I drive a car too and the thing I really notice is the difference in visibility of cyclists when it is dim, dark and/or raining. As a pedestrian, cyclist, a motorcyclist and a car driver I like to think I'm pretty aware of other road users but sometimes cyclists don't make it easy to see them. I live near a university and there are a lot of people with no lights or extremely dim ones.

The same way they get lorry drivers and cyclists to swap places, you could get cyclists in a car (maybe with poor visibility - big A pillars or whatever) on a night when it is lashing down with rain and try and see how hard it is to see an unlit cyclist.
The car should also have the radio on, some kids shouting in the back, someone talking on the phone and you should be late for something.

What is the problem with roads? I've never had a road drive into me.

I think the government should support employers by making it law TOJV. One less option on the boss's next Range Rover Sport would buy a shower.

The 5 mile commute I take is 75% segregated from suburbs to city centre. Its only the non segregated there is ever a problem with others, parking on cycle lanes, passing too close against on-coming traffic. The segregated is mostly pedestrian shared but never that busy with walkers.

Some of the surfaces could do with re surfacing but they're not that bad. Traffic lights are a pain, it should be acceptable for cyclists to turn left along a cycle lane if there are no pedestrians. I would like to ride empty footpaths, perhaps only at certain times of the day or below certain speed limit? Mopeds seem to think green boxes are for them too, although doesn't really affect anyone.