By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/03/2026Back in 2018, the Singletrack blog published a widely read article explaining the lethal trigonometry of a UK intersection where drivers kept hitting cyclists: singletrackworld.com/2018/01/coll... 1/ 2247
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/03/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/e... 2/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 171
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/03/2026There are lots of intersections that are dangerous for cyclists, but what made Ipsley Cross so lethal was a kind of eldritch geometry that let cyclist and driver see each other a *long* time before the collision, while providing the illusion that they were *not* going to collide, until they did. 3pluralistic.netPluralist: 19 Feb 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 162
