safety barriers

[Mr Sensible]

I actually agree that they should not be using these wire rope death traps and if it seemed that way, my apologies!!!! I was just pointing out the fact that they are effective at what they were designed to do.

History is littered with inventions that were effective at what they were designed to do, but not really "user friendly". Biggest that comes to mind is asbestos.......

Your "Own Actions" were to CHOOSE to ride a bike instead of drive a car. WTF does this have to do with wether I've received a CTP Green Slip Insurance Product Disclosure Statement lately or ever for that matter?

Being forced onto one of these so called safety fences by some drunken cage driver is also part of your own actions. Ultimately you chose to be in that spot, at that time.

We all risk our health and or life EVERY SINGLE DAY. Just to walk across the street you can be run down by (as you say) a "drunken cage driver" who in reality it is more likely to be a distracted, tired, or just plain ignorant shlepp, who - at the end of the day - would prefer to have not hit you in the first place so they can get to where they were going.

Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Or choose your own platitude, they all boil down to harden up and deal with the situation you find yourself in because YOU are the only one who can/will/wants to make it better.