Video: Aftermath of Bow Road cycle accident and comparison footage

Raised curb for the super highway would stop cars drifting into most parts of the cycle highway. Although this could not be done at junctions. I think a raised curb would make motor vehicle drivers more aware of cyclists rather than a bit of blue paint on the roads. The cost of a raised curb for cycle paths will be why it won't happen though at the moment.

Cyclist also have to be aware of what they are doing as well.
In this video the cyclist decides to ride between the bus and a car. Those with experience would not make that manoeuvre and WAIT!

Seems to me in the video the cyclist footage show him in a bit of a hurry and not reading the road very well.

There are two sides to the coin.

Thanks MRMO.

Takeaway from that article is that road deaths started declining rapidly as soon as the roads began being redesigned for an inverse power structure (putting those with least power in the most favoured position).

It just looks so dangerous, why would anyone commute in those conditions ?

Wait, what? 200 cyclist road fatalities in NL in a single year? Source please?

UK had 218 fatalities in 2013, on a much lower modal share: http://www.rospa.com/roadsafety/adviceandinformation/cycling/facts-figur...

Any comparison on fatalities per million or billion KMs travelled?

I nearly had a meeting with a car and the Tarmac at the same junction a few months ago. Luckily I stayed up right and only brushed the car which pulled across my path and did not indicated. Some protection needs to be given to cyclist along this route.

UK roads are unsafe for bikers. Not to say lethal. Car drivers are unaware or malevolent, road designers incompetent. A blogger mentioned TfL only looks into hazardous junctures if KSI data support the evidence. Meanwhile a slap of blue paint will do. Another blogger mentions numbers in the UK and NL are comparable. They are not. In 2012, 200 cyclists died in the NL for a population of 15 million; population is less relevant, bike trips undertaken/ km ridden are. And age distribution: of the 200, 120 were 70+.

http://www.veiligheid.nl/cijfers/fietsongevallen-algemeen

Safety will only improve if car drivers and civil servants in great numbers are lured into cycling. First step: put bobbies on bikes. Second step, stop the farcical paint job, build proper cycling infrastructure and show that cycling+public transport is faster, more convenient and safer than driving a car.

Its an impossible choice on a lane like that; travel at the speed of the slowest car then be left behind by overtaking vehicles and crawl through the city (remember you will be disciplined if you are late again) or be forced to undertake static vehicles leaving you vulnerable to left hooks and haymakers. You can't divide traffic from the bike lane as it crosses a junction. When the lights are green to go forward a turning car will probably not see you until it is too late. This will happen at all kinds of blind little side turns. I am left fuming by small cars just ahead of me slowing and leaving a gap for crossing cars out of courtesy. It is no courtesy to get me punted if I emerge from their blind spot. I am very wary of any car decelerating in front of me or static cars I can't see over the top of*. I literally have to avoid this situation a couple of times a day, and one day might not be as aware or lucky. I don't know if there even is a solution that can be built into the junctions, but my sympathies to the rider, get well soon.

*One day I will collide with a jaywalking dwarf.