Eliminating 12 Blind spots

Imagine road sharing between Airplane and Trains, Now Imagine road sharing between Trains and Cars. But we somehow we have accepted that Cycles and Cars can share Roads. It’s the infrastructure and without proper planning it can be fatal.

The Laurier Avenue in Ottawa, got the highest number of collisions between bicycles and cars.

The problem is by design the traffic of the bicycle flows in the same direction as the cars

In my opinion, If the bicycles and car follows in different direction, it can eliminate all the blind spots that exists on every intersection.

 

Some of the additional benefits are, for example for a car turning right on Metcalfe, coming from the direction of the City Hall.

1. The drivers and biker can determine each other speed and take corrective action if required. This is because they are in direct eyesight.
2. The driver can look past the first cycle and determine if there are more cyclists
3. There is no second guessing on part of the driver, and it’s much more predictable
4. Going in opposite direction also reduce the time it would take everyone to cross the intersection
5. There is no blind spot for the driver.
6. It takes zero infrastructure change to implement this change.