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    A SERIOUS SIDE ISSUE

    Apr 16, 2020 5 minutes

    IT’S QUITE a funny sight to help solve a deadly serious issue: burly truckies riding around inner Melbourne on bicycles, some of them a bit wobbly behind the handlebars as they use one arm to give hand signals.

    In the safety video produced for the massive Melbourne Metro rail tunnel project, the truck drivers are learning to see the road from the perspective of bike riders.

    On the flipside in another Metro video, members of the public clamber into a big bonneted truck to realise just how many blind spots there are from behind the steering wheel.

    These are good ideas involving so-called ‘vulnerable road users’ – pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and the increasing number of electric scooter riders who don’t have any protection if they go under the side of trucks.

    But there is a relatively simple and low cost engineering solution to help prevent

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