Cyclist "critical" with head injuries after bus crash on Fulford Road (From York Press)

• "it is a shame that some commentators have used this incident to support their own agendas, as was the decision to have this open for comment. However it does shine through all remarks that everyone is deeply affected by the fact that someone was badly hurt and that everyone offers their sincere good wishes to this lady for her recovery. I also believe that it is showing that the majority are concerned with the way that things are NOT shaping up as one would hope with regard to road safety, we are all after all road users. It is not fair to make a remark without being fully aware of the circumstances. Some bus drivers are not always as you would hope for, some car drivers are not always as you may hope for - but overall they are more regulated due to a variety of constraints than the cyclist or the pedestrian. Perhaps there is a more radical way to resolve what is a bad situation. We are stuck with the fact that the UK is small and overcrowded and that when the basic planning for towns and roads took place it was on a much smaller scale that present day demands. We cannot place the petrol engine in quarantine and I'm not attempting to say that we can manage without four wheels or that cycles are the future but clearly the current introductions are not effective. Overall I take some satisfaction that four wheels are governed by tests and insurances so it shouldn't really be the case that two wheels or two feet may always blame the former. For something to work the basic requirement is for awareness. As there are so many 'bits' in the equation it somehow needs to go back to basics. OK so roads are roads and footpaths are footpaths....just maybe the safe way for the cycle is for a new way to be devised for their road usage which will allow for them to take priority within a time zone on the road which are constant time zones, perhaps half hourly, throughout the day. Something which could be written in to the highway code (a new code to encompass all manner of road usage... pedestrians - the lot) for ALL to understand and adhere to...and if they didn't an appropriate fine should be issued as a reminder that we all must be aware. This is no place for rants when someone has been so badly hurt in a road accident, and an accident in an area where perhaps the undergoing improvement isn't really the improvement which is needed."
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