Cambridge University fellow urges students to follow Highway Code and end 'tradition' of ignoring one-way system cycling
A University of Cambridge fellow has spoken out about students ignoring traffic rules in the city, saying the"tradition" of flouting the one-way system is an"accident waiting to happen".he had taken the matter up with the university's acting vice chancellor, Anthony Freeling, but was told it is not the university's job to"lecture students" about traffic rules.
"But now there are people on electric bikes and scooters and you get huge buses and delivery vans swinging into Bridge Street by Patisserie Valerie. That's why I think that on that corner it's an accident waiting to happen. "One simple suggestion is that the colleges, as part of their duty of care — which they're now much more conscious of — would very gently point out to students, especially new students, that they're expected to obey the Highway Code," the fellow continued.
A university spokesperson said:"The University of Cambridge urges all members of its community to follow The Highway Code, and to cycle, ride and drive safely."Interestingly, the University of Cambridge fellow's comments come just days after road.cc first became aware of an academic paper from the University of Leeds which looked at 22 years of data from 508 one-way streets and found that"contraflow cycling does not increase cyclist crash or casualty rates".
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