Originally Posted by
hagen2456
I was 8 respectively 9 years old when they happened. The only thing I recall, apart from the horror at the sight, is that they changed lane, and were hit. Of course, lots of people were never hit making that kind of left turns, but the number who were was sufficientlly high for the authorities to change the rules for left turns.
What you are telling us, Hagen, is that because some incompetent Dutch cyclists made incompetent lane changes and got smashed, the Dutch authorities then prohibited even the competent cyclists from changing lanes to make left turns. That's the kind of arbitrary anti-cyclist discrimination we have been fighting here, although much of it is most likely done for the convenience of motorists, shielded by the motorist-superiority/cyclist-inferiority superstition.