New safety features at Mt. Diablo helping keep cyclists, motorists from colliding
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Len Ramirez reports on how Mt. Diablo is being made safe for both cyclists and drivers.
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Great idea. I never enjoyed driving up to Diablo to go camping. It has been a very dangerous situation.
Ride and enjoy being physically fit. 💪🏽💕
It would be great if bike lanes can be made. Many of our roads are too dangerous, narrow for bicycles and vehicles. Especially mountain roads.
dont assume cars see you
don't drive a car
They need to install K-rails on the center divide around the curves. that's the only way to keep stupid drivers from passing.
Weird you don’t hear about these bicycle accidents on Mt. Tamalpais as much? Where there’s just as many cyclists and cars..
I’ve been biking up Mt. Diablo for over 25 years. Sadly, I have to admit the majority of the accidents involving cyclists was the fault of the cyclist. It occurs around blind corners with the cyclist traveling down the mountain at a speed well over the 15-20 mph limit. Due to that speed around the corner, the cyclist veers too far to the middle of the road or even crosses the median, when the cyclist should stay as far to the right as possible.
Trust me, I love riding down Diablo on my bike and on the straightaways, I’m hitting speeds of close to 40 mph. But when it comes to the downhill blind curves, I brake well in advance and keep the speed under 15 mph.
I’m 100% for these new safety measures, but the cycling community needs to step up the awareness on riding down the mountain safely.
Whoa.
This should be enacted throughout the globe.
Throughout the globe, car-driving isn't normalized, only in the US. There are almost twice as many bicycles around the world as cars. Bicycles were here before cars, and they'll be here after cars go away again.
Have any of these cyclists advocates ridden a motorcycle in their life? You do not stay to the right, so far out that you are out of sight and out of mind.
I'm a long time cyclist and I just take the lane, give it away when necessary to have motorists pass, it's a dance and it doesn't have to be this complicated, just take the lane.
When we do take the lane the idiots just move farther into the downhill lane on blind corners. It happens all the time.
@@rickedmondson7575 I'm sorry but what do you mean by "farther into"? Do you mean they try to pass you moving into the oncoming lane?
I've driven within the park and lots of these bikers don't even bother to move over they will just hold up cars behind them.
Its not required that we move over. We are traffic too.
Most of us ride as far to the right as practicable as the vehicle code requires. And we use the bike turnouts.
How long until drivers start treating these turnouts as shoulders for them to park in?
It seldom happens.
why would you continue to drive into the path of the car instead of just steering away from the car or just stop?
why would you continue to drive into the path of the cyclist instead of just stopping
The downhillers are going way too fast to avoid a collision.
Why would you try to pass on a double yellow on a blind curve? 🤦
@@theWZZAdumb. Obviously not a cyclist to make that comment
@@alvinjrraa if you mean I don't ride too fast to avoid a collision, you are correct.
Stay out of traffic and there won't be any bike/car collisions.
how does the stop cars from crashing into literally everything
that is a narrow mountain road, impossible to do.
@@theWZZA Exactly why they should not ride in the lanes of traffic!
@@spacini you're basically saying the road should only be for cars, which is wrong.
@@theWZZA This road, due to bikers inability to stay out the way of cars, should be reserved for cars only. Do you have a problem with bikes being prohibited from our freeways, too?
As a lifelong mountain resident (60 years), prohibit bikes on roads. There are so many alternative dirt trails. To be safe, a car needs to drive 2 mph, which I do not think is realistic.
These roads were not built for bikes, just autos.
Let's all be safe.
A bicyclist in the auto lane on I think bonny doon Rd caused a car to swerve into an oncoming auto head on collision with other auto driver. One driver fatality. Please, stop this on road bicycle madness on these narrow mountain roads.
A little pleasure for bicyclists that could be alternatively on trails is causing traffic problems and accidents.
I often drive highlands before slide too and have seen bicycle riders in middle of road, dangerously racing down, not thinking autos, trucks, and large wide diesel trucks (water, propane delivery) travel that road.
Multiple times I have seen bicyclists on hwy 17 between Lexington reservoir and LG.
Please please let's all be safe.
Autos on auto roads.
Bikes on trails.
Thank you
Close the road to cars.
@@lawrencesobczak9729 🙄 right. How will you get all your "Amazon deliveries", construction workers trucks, propane deliveries, septic pumping trucks, tree workers trucks and equipment, transport for the elderly and disabled, etc to the residences. This is the point. These are residential roads, not bike paths. Some locations in the USA have transformed old railroad lines into miles of paved wide bike and walking lanes so there is a separation of autos from bikes. Let's all work together to be safe. ☮️
@@queendlb5946 No one is living and receiving deliveries on Mt Diablo. It's a state park for recreation! Why are you in such a hurry to get to the top that you can't wait for a safe place to pass?
A lot of entitled cyclist.
Rather than being situationally aware.
They think they own the road.
I have ridden up Mount Diablo, just be situationally aware.
Don't hog the road.
Sliw down and be safe when descending rather rhan bombing down hill.
I'm a cyclist and I agree. You have to imagine what it's like being the driver as well.
@@pointbreak2811 no we don't. Many of us don't drive. Motorists simply need to stop killing cyclists.
We have every right to the road as motorists. Stop driving on these roads if you don't like it. Many of the roads were here and cycled before cars existed, and will be bicycled after motorists go by way of the dinosaurs.