Safe Cycling Ireland

Making Irish roads Safer For Everyone


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rsa1.5

Below is an excellent piece by the Road Safety Authority is well worth watching. At 27 seconds, in the section on overtaking, the suggestion is to allow 1.5 metres during this manoeuvre. This is of great importance to cyclists and is a message that needs to be backed up by an amendment to our Irish Rules of the Road and passed in to law to give it credance.

Below you will find a link to the Road Safety Authority’s advice on safety around heavy Goods Vehicles. 6 cyclists were killed in London late last year after crashes with HGVs within a two week period.

http://vimeo.com/9551375

I you care to click on the link below, it will take you to a nice video with good advice on safe cycling. This is by transportation consultant Damien O’ Tuama.

http://vimeo.com/10773185

Some more RSA cycling advice (click on link below)

http://vimeo.com/58383372

Example below of a dangerous overtaking manoeuvre (There’s any amount of others on You Tube)

 

This below is what the Queensland Government are trialing at the moment

 

Blogs.

Stayin’ Alive at 1.5 Campaign

Campaign focused on having a defined lateral overtaking space of 1.5 metres, in relation to cyclists, written in to Irish Law. Bicycle specific Minimum Passing Distance Laws (MPDL) are now in place in 28 US states, 2 Canadian Provences, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and is currently being rolled out throughout Australian states and territories. This offers invaluable, lifesaving protection to cyclists.

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