New regulations have created a new minimum distance B.C. drivers must maintain when passing cyclists, the province announced Thursday.
Under changes to B.C.’s Motor Vehicle Act, drivers must maintain a distance of one metre when passing cyclists. On highways with a speed limit above 50 kilometres per hour, that distance increases to 1.5 metres.
“These new regulations will keep people safer on our roads and encourage even more use of active transportation,” Rob Fleming, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, said in a statement.
The only acceptable distance between 7-ton steel boxes at 60kmph and squishy 180lb creatures is One shrubbery minimum.
It’s how they do it in civilised countries; we just need to emulate what they’re doing, if we can collectively get over the Little Brother complex all new countries have.