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To my surprise a study of what percentage of riders of bikes and e-bikes jump red lights has Glasgow ahead of London and Manchester. In Victoria Rd at Calder St 54% of riders ignored red lights. Even more impressively on The Broomielaw 93% of pedestrians crossed the road without waiting for the green man.
I am always amazed at Glagow pedestrians who have such confidence in drivers that they walk very slowly across traffic without even looking in the direction it is coming from.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/transport/article/rental-ebikes-red-light-jumping-8w5kmtrbm
In Victoria Rd at Calder St 54% of riders ignored red lights
TBF due to the one way nature of Calder St, we have to wait at 'our' bike lane traffic light for about 4x longer than usual, so most nip across.
Its not like you impede traffic or pedestrians.
On leith walk a new cycle lane was put in. At some of the traffic lights the bikes go with the cars, at some with the pedestrians, at some with our own separate light at some the traffic lights do not apply If cyclists are regularly jumping red lights to that extent it shows a poorly designed junction
Most pedestrian crossings it is not mandatory to wait for the lights to change IIRC
I treat many red lights as give ways myself. There seems to be a trend in Glasgow for crossroads to have a phase for all 4 directions rather than just allowing cars to turn right at gaps in traffic or with a filter phase. This naturally increases wait time at junctions. Add on a pedestrians phase and bike lane phase in the case of Victoria Road and it all adds up.
In areas with high numbers of traffic light junctions if you are going to stop at each light you'd be as well sitting in a car.
There's a paywall for that article, but if it's saying rental bikes - then it might just be that the riders did brake but it took too long to slow down. I was on a Glasgow hire bike last week and the brakes were shit 😀
I know Calder Street pretty well and there's a weirdly long wait at those lights, often with nothing crossing the other way.
There's a paywall for that article
Use this, just to see if it's something you might want to pay for...
If your life expectancy was that low you wouldn’t have time to wait at traffic lights either!
I was confused 30 yrs ago when I moved across the country and people seemed to stand diligently on the pavement even though nothing was coming.
On leith walk a new cycle lane was put in. At some of the traffic lights the bikes go with the cars, at some with the pedestrians, at some with our own separate light at some the traffic lights do not apply If cyclists are regularly jumping red lights to that extent it shows a poorly designed junction
Leith Walk and the rest of the CCEWL is the only place I jump red lights. The phasing of the lights on the cycle lane mean it's much slower to cycle down the cycle lane than the road, unless you jump the lights. It's like the council had gone to Copenhagen, seen the bike lanes, gone "ooo, that'd be nice" then sent the idea off to someone on Mars who had never heard of a bicycle to design it.
I go between cycle lane and road depending on the lights / traffic. As far as I can see jumping on and off the cycle lane to get the best of the lights is legal
If the govts really committed to tackling climate change, then they’ll need to radically overhaul the entire waiting times at pedestrian crossings.
As a part-time pedestrian, there’s so many instances in which road traffic is over-prioritised.
the traffic lights at tescos Maryhill take aaages to get the green man, even though 99% of the traffic is from far beyond maryhill.
’think globally, act locally’ was the mantra 30 years ago.
but if you’re going to cut down on vehicle use, you’ve got to start somewhere. A mission statement to demonstrate that the authorities are taking the issue seriously.
segregated cycle lanes, all the way to killearn with fewer traffic light would encourage people from their cars.