Pavement cyclists beware

Crikey! An actual sensible proposal. How novel. Shame it's only left turns rather than for instance straight on where a side road enters from the right, but it'd be a good start. Might get the message to the police that there are better uses of their time too.

This is basically taken straight from North American road planning where a number of states and provinces allow all vehicles to turn right on red. If there is sufficient space on the turn to the left then, in theory, a cyclist should never come into conflict with vehicle coming from the right and should be sufficiently visible to a vehicle turning right from the opposite direction. If the lights manage traffic coming from a side road from the right as a T junction then straight on would be flawed because a cyclist would be less visible until they had passed the forward most car at the lights. At which point the car coming from the right may have already set a course to swing wide (long HGV for instance), leaving no room for a cyclist to continue onwards. You could expect a cyclist to be sensible and cautious about such a junction but, as always, you have to legislate for the least capable.