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"Victim blaming as policy": Cyclists blast "i mistake could be fatal" cycling condom campaign; Should drivers pay route taxation?; 'Cycling and driving tribalism isn't helping u.s.'; Snake Pass: Return to (unsafe) normality + more on the live blog

It's Mon and Ryan Mallon is hither, nursing an Amstel-induced hangover (those massive spectacles are to arraign), for the first live blog of the week

SUMMARY

Shocking Tour of Turkey crash acquired by human being walking on road with back to race

A shocking ane here from today'south stage of the Tour of Turkey, where a man walking along the road – seemingly oblivious that a peloton of some of the globe's best riders was approaching behind him – caused a massive crash.

Arkéa-Samsic sprinter Nacer Bouhanni was 1 of the riders brought down in the crash, and was later forced to abandon the race after feeling ill.

Fair play to the spectator in the hi-viz, who put himself in harm'south mode to try to forbid an incident, only to exist struck past a rider himself in the process. Hopefully anybody is okay.

Later a tense finale, BikeExchange-Jayco's Kaden Groves won the stage from a bunch finish alee of Jasper Philipsen and Sam Bennett, who looks to finally have a scrap of zip in his legs after a slow first to the season.

It was bad news, however, for Arkéa-Samsic, every bit not but did they lose Bouhanni, but the team'south GC leader Nairo Quintana also crashed in the closing stages and shipped well-nigh 2 minutes, effectively ending his hopes for the overall title.

Should drivers pay road tax?

Ah, road tax. That old mythical favourite seemingly rolled out on an nearly daily basis by those seeking to delegitimise the place of cyclists on the roads, based on a tax which hasn't existed in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland since 1937.

But what if nosotros flipped the question, satiating some drivers' nostalgic desires to come across road revenue enhancement return as well as filling an always widening hole in the Treasury?

Should motorists then pay a reintroduced class of road taxation alongside the existing Vehicle Excise Duty?

Road.cc reader Cycloid thinks so. In a tongue-in-cheek forum post over the weekend, they wrote:

With the move away from hydrocarbon to electric powered vehicles fewer drivers are paying VED and the Chancellor is reaping a smaller revenue from the motoring population. The first criticism of motorists towards cyclists is the Free Rider Charge: 'They don't pay for using the roads'. We now have the same situation with motorists – an increasing proportion of drivers are not contributing adequately towards the roads which they use.

The solution could exist uncomplicated – bring back Road Tax.

All drivers will pay VED on a sliding down to zero, forth with Road Revenue enhancement. Conspicuously, reading the route.cc blog, there is a lot of nostalgia amongst motorists for this much-loved tax, and it would be welcomed with open arms as a fair solution to the problem.

The Road Tax component could be earmarked for road improvements, as the contempo hike in NICs is earmarked for NHS catchup. Remember not to talk near "Road Maintenance" in this context; our roads are not fit for purpose and getting worse. Maintenance implies keeping the condition quo.

When drivers receive a Road Revenue enhancement nib they will be reminded that information technology does not give them any special rights to apply the roads and that they must respect the vulnerable road user hierarchy.

Job done - Simples!

What do you think? Would bringing back route tax represent a off-white solution to the changing graphic symbol of our roads?

Here were some of the replies to Cycloid's, permit's say, interesting proposition:

I'm not a fan of "route tax" every bit it just feeds the stupid with ideas that they take more rights on the roads.

However, if nosotros're going to need a replacement for VED (which would be bully every bit I'thou fed upwards with all the fumes put out by entitled car drivers) and so it should exist charged proportionate to beam weight (possibly even to the 4th ability of axle weight) and perchance described every bit a road repair tax.

I accept similar feelings about 'road tax', it was stopped in 1937 for very good reasons. If we pursue this idea nosotros could stop up with things like 'school tax', from which childless adults are exempt, and so on...

Although axle weight would be a expert principle, information technology does allow some to bleat how their claimed need for a big vehicle is unfairly penalised. And don't forget that VED evasion has got worse since tax discs were abolished.

Reversing Rishi Sunak's latest stunt and raising the duty on fossil fuel would be an up-front, honest way of dealing with some of the problems. That way we taxation the usage (consumption), rather than vehicle ownership. It may even allow us to seriously hash out important issues such as route danger, pollution - NOx, CO, particulates, noise etc - and the other serious issues created by current traffic levels. However, it doesn't address the issue of EVs which, as most now acknowledge, be to save the car industry, not the planet.

How nearly a split up annual tax for anyone with a current driving license that has at least 6 points? At that place would be a higher tax band for the bastards with 12 points or more than, since information technology seems that many (all?) of them plead "exceptional hardship" and become treated most similar victims by magistrates when they should be pariahs and get ASBOs like yobs. It could be paid by Straight Debit like Council Taxation, which should mean less admin cost involved in collecting it.

I'd first by making all on-road parking charged, and (so that that doesn't unfairly penalise those who tin can't beget it) adding an element in to the council revenue enhancement calculation for off-road parking provision.

Definitely needs to be a traffic jam tax…

Stay safe, be short: Bedfordshire Police'south new bike safety slogan?

'Ah, so you were wearing a helmet, y'all had a hi-viz jacket on, front and back lights, and your bike was well-maintained… You are six foot two though. Only be shorter next time, okay?'

Reckon you could exist a UCI commissaire?

For those shaking their heads at the TV yesterday and claiming they would have called Michał Kwiatkowski as the winner of Amstel Aureate directly abroad, here'due south a fun test to see if y'all would brand the class as a UCI finish-line judge:

In that location's a definite Van Aert-Pidcock state of affairs going on between 78 and 54…

Cycling Colemanballs, part 245

Adam Blythe, with the finest piece of cycling commentary nosotros're probable to hear in 2022…

… which he immediately followed up with: "Oh, that sounds wrong". Never change, Adam.

Paris-Roubaix: Let the countdown embark…

With those pesky French presidential elections delaying our cobblestone gratification for a whole week (though we did have to await over two years for last Oct'southward edition, and over a century for the women's race, only to add some perspective), the countdown to the Hell of the Northward can now well and truly begin:

Only five more than sleeps!

Photo-finish drama and oversized beers at Amstel Gold

Amstel Gold Race rarely fails to disappoint these days, does it? Ever since the organisers started tinkering with the route almost a decade ago – in a bid to end the procession-like ride to the concluding ascent of the Cauberg which the characterised the race – the Netherlands' just major archetype has picayune by little go a fascinating, open thing, where Flemish region' finest overlap with the puncheurs of the Ardennes.

And it's led to some pretty spectacular racing. While the 2019 race witnessed the emergence of Mathieu van der Poel as a global superstar with what remains his most impressive physical feat on the road, the terminal two editions take been characterised by finish-line drama.

After last year's debacle which saw Tom Pidcock controversially beaten (insert your ain inverted commas if you wish) by Wout van Aert after a dubious appraisal of the photo stop, yesterday's race witnessed the kind of twist-laden plot normally reserved for Chiliad. Dark Shyamalan films.

> "I feel so bad for him!": Amstel Gold Race photograph finish drama AGAIN every bit Benoît Cosnefroy celebrates...only to be told result on live Tv set

Poor Benoît Cosnefroy – told that he's won the biggest race of his career, only for the photo finish judge to finally make his mind up and award the victory to Michał Kwiatkowski. As the drama unfolded on our screens, it was also taking place in real fourth dimension on Cosnefroy's teammate Oliver Naesen'southward Twitter page:

To be fair to the AG2R Citroën rider, he took that bitter blow surprisingly well, later telling the media: "If I'chiliad going to weep about a podium at Amstel, I should end cycling."

He continued: "For certain I'd accept preferred to win. Only when you step on the podium information technology's still a big moment in a career. There were 175 riders on the starting time line and but three on the podium. Mathieu Van der Poel was here as ane of the large favourites but not on the podium. I don't know what I have to cry about."

Fair play.

It seems as if Cosnefroy's runners-up spot was written in the stars (or at least in the race's hashtag), according to this remarkably prescient tweet posted with well over 100 kilometres to go:

Autonomously from Kwiato, Cosnefroy and the impressive and tactically flawless winner of the women's race Marta Cavalli, the other real stars of Amstel Golden were the ridiculous oversized beers awarded on the podium by, predictably, the race's eponymous sponsors:

Every fourth dimension I come across those massive glasses I moving picture Jez from Peep Prove ordering 2 yards of ale at Mark's stag do…

Speaking of beer, while Cosnefroy and Kwiatkowski downed their half pints as if there were a photograph finish camera in sight, third-place Tiesj Benoot didn't look besides impressed with what was on offer.

Or peradventure he's attempting to emulate Simon Gerrans, who in a very un-Aussie-like way refused to finish his beer while standing on the lower steps of the podium at the 2014 Amstel Gilded, only to win Liège–Bastogne–Liège a week afterwards…

"Fourth dimension and a place, mate..."

From Alpe d'Huez to Aintree

Anybody else place a derisive cycling-related bet on Santini?

It's merely a pity Alaphilippe (the horse that is) wasn't racing on Saturday…

"Victim blaming as policy": Cyclists blast Bedfordshire Constabulary'southward "one mistake could be fatal" cycling safety campaign

After terminal week's questionable and low-res cycling safety tweet from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, it's now Bedfordshire Police's turn to come up upward with a dubious have on the National Police force Chiefs' Council's 'ii Wheels' campaign.

The NPCC'south 2 Wheels entrada focuses on ensuring the safety of cyclists and motorcyclists on our roads, by raising motorists' awareness about the dangers of close passes and carless driving, also as educating riders on their own safety.

However, local law forces have been slammed for 'victim-blaming' during the entrada, by focusing solely on the means in which cyclists can keep themselves safe, such as wearing a helmet and how-do-you-do-viz clothing.

Promoting the 2 Wheels initiative, Bedfordshire Police tweeted: "Even if you're an experienced cyclist, in that location are things everyone needs to recollect when setting off on their journey. There were 33 cyclists killed or seriously injured on Bedfordshire roads last year. One error could be fatal."

Unsurprisingly, the link between cycling fatalities and 'mistakes' fabricated by cyclists was heavily criticised online:

Serpent Pass: Return to (unsafe) normality

Ah, just as the seasons change, friendships come and go, taxes are paid and Manchester United lose, one of life's inevitabilities is that cars would one day return to Ophidian Pass, restoring the A57 to its former status every bit a scene of white-knuckle, motoring mayhem:

All is unsafe with the world over again…

'Nobody who has used a bike could have designed this'

'Cycling and driving tribalism isn't helping us', says Oxford cycling entrada group

Cycling and motoring 'tribalism', where groups of bike riders and drivers coalesce online to defend their 'camp' and demonise the 'other', is only hindering progress when it comes to road condom, says Oxford cycling entrada group Cyclox.

Cyclox has been one of the driving forces behind the entrada to increase road safety in the city by calling for the installation of protected cycle lanes and a reduction in speed limits and traffic. Five women have been killed cycling in and around Oxford since 2017, including two – Ellen Moilanen and Ling Felce – who were killed afterwards being struck by lorries while riding their bikes in the past two months.

One of Cyclox's trustees, Jake Backus, has published a piece in the Oxford Mail service over the weekend, arguing that the apparent tribal disharmonize between motorists and cyclists is a barrier to securing immediate changes on our roads.

> MP urges the regime to help make Oxford'south roads safer for cyclists

Like the tribes that formed in the wake of dramatic political events such as Brexit, sparking prolonged waves of often anonymous online vitriol, Backus writes that "people who prefer to cycle and people who prefer to bulldoze have formed their tribes."

Those tribes, he says, are based on stereotyping the 'other': "Cyclists are annoying and don't obey the rules, and drivers are dangerous, take up a lot of infinite and cause pollution. Consequently, "cyclists" go through red lights (although non all cyclists become through ruddy lights), and cycle without lights and a helmet. "Vehicle drivers" speed, use their mobile phones (although, once more, not all drivers speed or utilize their phones).

"Merely the reality is that many people both cycle and bulldoze, and ultimately, some people are just desperately behaved (let's phone call them idiots).

"You get idiot cyclists and idiot drivers (although idiot drivers tend to exist more dangerous to others, while idiot cyclists are most oft a danger to themselves).

"So, the fence goes around in circles with little compassion or empathy for each other. Ultimately, nosotros share the same space, and we need to be considerate of one another.

"At the basic level, do we believe in "survival of the fittest" or "survival of the friendliest through cooperation"?"

> Campaigners call for "immediate changes" afterwards cyclist was killed in Oxfordshire

He continues: "Where is the contend about what is best for society, best for the health and condom of our children and old people, and what is socially equitable and inclusive?

"Ultimately, if we want things to become improve, nosotros will need to make changes, since by definition, something needs to change to go better (unless of course you lot think that others should practice all the changing).

"How flexible to alter are we? How adjustable are nosotros to alternative futures?

"Whilst information technology may generate date and conflict online, tribalism isn't helping united states to brand whatever progress.

"Maybe one day cyclists and drivers tin have their own segregated space, and if more people cycle, then vehicle drivers will as well benefit with less congestion. A win-win. Meanwhile, the eighth adult female has been killed in Oxford in recent years whilst cycling.

"Let's make the health and prophylactic of everyone the key priority, share the road considerately, and discuss things in a moderate and empathetic way so that nosotros can agree how best to move forrad – literally."

What practise you think? Is online tribalism i of the chief barriers to securing safer roads for everyone?

Ryan joined route.cc every bit a news writer in December 2021. He has written about cycling and some brawl-centric sports for various websites, newspapers, magazines and radio. Earlier returning to writing about cycling total-fourth dimension, he completed a PhD in History and published a book and numerous bookish articles on organized religion and politics in Victorian Uk and Ireland (though he remained committed to boring his university colleagues and students with endless cycling trivia). He can exist found riding his bike very slowly through the Dromara Hills of Co. Down.

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Source: https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-11-april-2022-291829

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