Safe Passing Distance signs in North Wales

[Rusty Nails]

Gwynnedd County Council has started putting safe passing signs on roads popular with cyclists in North Wales. I hope it will help.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53338043

 

[ianrauk]

I wouldn't build your hopes up.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Good. This is a positive move.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Gwynnedd County Council has started putting safe passing signs on roads popular with cyclists in North Wales. I hope it will help.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53338043

Can't see that making the slightest difference.

 

[G3CWI]

They only make a difference if you hold one out while cycling. On the plus side they are a far better design than the ones our Town Council spent hundreds on.

 

[mjr]

Does anyone know if they are a legal sign and, if so, what diagram number they are?

I wonder if they're doing a fairly broad subversion of the pedestrian information sign Diagram 857B.

 

[theclaud]

Gwynnedd County Council has started putting safe passing signs on roads popular with cyclists in North Wales. I hope it will help.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53338043

I've seen this on Facebook. Unfortunately with the speeds that most drivers get away with on roads like that, 1.5m is a close pass.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I've seen this on Facebook. Unfortunately with the speeds that most drivers get away with on roads like that, 1.5m is a close pass.

Agreed. A bit like the A470 Merthyr to Brecon where speeds are often around 60mph.

 

[Slick]

Everything is welcome and that can only be a good thing. Wether it helps or not is very difficult to measure but I would certainly like to see something similar up here. I see the TV adverts for operation close pass are back on the telly, at least someone is aware of the issue.

 

[Drago]

Littering the landscape with signs telling drivers that which they ought to already know is a bit daft. Nice sentiment though.

 

[mjr]

Littering the landscape with signs telling drivers that which they ought to already know is a bit daft. Nice sentiment though.

The rot set in with >>>> at corners, didn't it?

Or maybe CTC's "STEEP HILL" signs?

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

The money would be better spent on providing a decent road surface to ride on.

But that doesn't provide a good PR story and the chance for some council jobsworth to get his photo on the BEEB.

 

[Mrs M]

Cycling to work some days each week, mostly on cycle paths and roads closed off to cars
Noticed all of my close passes have been very near to home.
Last 2 weeks, 2 passes from the same (professional) taxi driver
One from a boy racer and one from a young lassie, just shook my head

 

[Rusty Nails]

The money would be better spent on providing a decent road surface to ride on.

But that doesn't provide a good PR story and the chance for some council jobsworth to get his photo on the BEEB.

Would have re-surfaced about 20 metres of road, possibly. That'll make a huge difference.

 

[Slick]

The rot set in with >>>> at corners, didn't it?

Or maybe CTC's "STEEP HILL" signs?

I think those directional signs have saved a few tourists from some very sharp corners on our highland roads.