My favorite is when they put the bike lane in the middle of the street between the right and left vehicle traffic lanes. I feel so safe with murder machines on both sides of me!
In 88.9% of cases, the cyclist had been travelling in a safe/legal manner prior to the collision/near miss. Most happened at or near a junction (70.3%) and most were caused by sudden lane changes by the motorist, with sideswipe the most frequent cause (40.7%).
And this one carried out on behalf of the Department of Transport in London:
The City of Westminster Council found that drivers were to blame for 68 per cent of collisions between cyclists and motor vehicles in the borough in the past 12 months. It found that cyclists were at fault for only 20 per cent. In the remaining 12 per cent of cases, no cause could be found or both parties were to blame.
I've been hit by a car a lost several weeks to amnesia from a TBI, forgive me for being afraid of murder machines when I have nothing but a painted line to protect me from them.
Plenty of cars don't stop for stop signs and traffic lights too. At least around all the crossings near where I live. Now, it's possible that there are timing issues, but AFAICS the mentality is it's okay to keep going as long as the car in front of me is moving. Regardless of the state of the lights.
Yeah Canadians are at least polite. In Germany, they will just silently remove the bike lane and sent police ON BIKES herding cyclists from sidewalk into the traffic.