Should cyclists pay to use roads? 32,000 sign petition calling for bike users to require insurance
I will just say, in the interests of safer rural roads, this sounds like a good idea to me and then step out of the light. The article tells us……
More than 32,000 people have signed an online petition calling for British cyclists to be obliged to hold insurance to use public UK roads
Owen McDermott, who created the petition, says in an accompanying statement: “The public roads used by motor vehicles are becoming unsafe to use due to one particular community that feel they are eligible to cycle on public UK roads.
“Insurance, if a cyclist throws him/herself into the back of a stationary motor vehicle… Who’s to blame? Not the cyclist… The driver of the motor vehicle would have to pay their own excess to repair the damages.
He also calls for cyclists to have to earn a cycling qualification before being allowed on the roads, saying: “Just like having to sit your theory and your practical test to obtain a driving license [sic], cyclists should have to do the same. What training have they had to use the road safely?