Quo vadis, cyclists? UPDATED
UPDATED / FIXED Survey into road user behaviour at traffic lights
In order to better understand cyclist behaviour and issues at traffic lights (and to provide some context for the next time a motorist complains ‘Cyclists never stop at a red light’) an Auckland researcher is investigating cyclist, pedestrian and motorist behaviour at traffic lights.
As well as monitoring actual user behaviour at a range of Auckland intersections, the researcher has also developed a short survey for cyclists.
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated in helping complete this survey (to participate, just click on this link - and tell your friends!).
The survey should only take a couple of minutes. We’ll publish the overall research results once the investigation is completed, expected to be around the end of the year. Thanks!
For those who have already taken this survey – can we politely ask you to do it again, after the researcher had to pull it for technical reasons with the survey form. Thank you!
Fullers (CAA Sponsor)
Themocracy
Have completed the survey but feel it could have been better done. I don’t think the researcher put a lot of thought into the questions, options, or how they were selected. The survey concept is good, the quality assurance and execution lets it down, and I’m not sure how much can be drawn from the final collation
Agreed Steve. I got frustrated and gave up. I put one answer in and it cleared the one before… Please re-post when it’s working properly.
CAN ran a ‘Respect, Stop at Red’ campaign last year at http://can.org.nz/stopatred/
We learned a lot about the psychology of stop signs and traffic signals. Can the researcher contact me to discuss? patrick@can.org.nz
The survey does not work properly. Suggest you withdraw it, fix it and then launch it again. Valid responses are not possible for many of the questions, e.g. ticking “Usually” or “Not relevant” on more than one column within a set of questions.
Also, it makes a big difference whether it’s a left turn or a right turn. And for a T intersection it makes a difference if you’re going straight ahead along the top of the T or across the side road.
Hi gents – will talk to the researcher, and hope to get this fixed.
so let me get this straight. Out of..
Commuter cyclist
Training/racing cyclist
Recreational/slow cyclist
Other (please specify)
So a non-recreational slow riding person on a bike is OTHER?
In any society with a truly healthy cycling culture, this would be the overwhelmingly dominant identification.
An interesting survey, but these categorisation options, are a sad, realistic, but definitely non-aspirational commentary on the state of cycling in aotearoa.
For anyone interested in trafflic light ethics, i do recommend http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/if-kant-were-a-new-york-cyclist.html by the NY Times former and much loved ethicist
Agreed, transport cyclist would have been a good addition but I don’t think the categories as given are all that bad.
I thanked the survey author in the last box for taking the time to restart the survey and allow for more valid responses – much better this way.
We should be thankful that someone thinks this an area worthy of research (thanks researcher!).
Anybody at CAA inclined to support a “let cyclists use the pedestrian phase” campaign (with appropriate pedestrian safety caveats)
There’s already a civil disobedience campaign in full swing
Hi NCD – actually, that is a topic CAA has been interested in for a while. I will do a post on this in a while. We are highly inclined, just not omnipresent!