Safe cycling
St Benedict College Safi Primary recently held a 'Bike to School' activity to promote cycling as a clean, fun and healthy way to get to school and to encourage commuters to try cycling as an alternative to using their car.
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George Debono
Jul 24th 2010, 19:12
Alison Zammit Endrich
Alison -
Yes, bus lanes are for taxis and bicycles. The Malta traffic Code (mostly copied word for word from the UK code! ) enigmatically says: (61)--- (Bus lanes) may be used by cyclists only if the signs include a cycle symbol.
(see http://www.doi.gov.mt/en/archive/HighwaycodeEng/part3E.asp).
I happened to cycle to valetta on thursday & checked it out- The bus lane just after Porte des Bombes shows the words "Bus" and "Cycle" in large letters (as usual, the paint is faded & barely visible).
Of course it' would be madness to use bus lanes in Malta - our buses are lethal. When I go to Valletta I use the pavement all the way from Msida to just beyond Floriana. There's no other safe way.
Where you hurt is not quite a bus lane (but it is a useful refuge from traffic for bicycles for a 50 - 70 M stretch) and you were perfectly in your rights to use it. The shabby grating is anyway dangerous even to pedestrians. As I said, the first time I dodged into it to get out of the way of traffic - the grating nearly got me.
GET WELL SOON !
G