A cycling enthusiast from Preston is calling for a temporary lane reduction on one of the main roads into the city to be made permanent – and the space given over to bike-riders.
Luke Bosman, a former chair of Garstang Cycling Club, says that the closure of a lane on Brockholes Brow has made traffic flow more smoothly – and provides a “great opportunity” to create a new cycle-friendly route. He wants to see a segregated cycle lane introduced on the busy section of the A59 that runs between junction 31 of the M6 and New Hall Lane.
“Also, people who are trying to turn right to get onto the estate with Brockholes Primary School [can now] do that without clogging up the traffic. There is space to do what I’m suggesting. My [idea] is that you would widen what is now the middle by a few feet and have [that] for traffic going up and then a cycle lane [to the left of it] – and everyone’s a winner.
“I did cycle up there a few times before deciding that, actually, it wasn’t fun. If you’re just around the corner of the bend on Brockholes Brow [on a bike], drivers aren’t expecting to suddenly see a cyclist doing four miles-per-hour. It’s actually a reasonable defence in law that if you believe your life is imperilled, you may use a pavement with care – and that is the only road in Lancashire where I will ever use the pavement, because it’s just too dangerous.
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