Cycle Lanes - use thereof etc

[blinkythefish]

As ever on these topics, a quick referral to the "facility of the month" will illustrate everything that it terrible about cycle paths:

http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/Sep...

[Vipers]

blinkythefish said:

As ever on these topics, a quick referral to the "facility of the month" will illustrate everything that it terrible about cycle paths:

http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/Sep...

Are they nuts, matter of time before a cycle lout zips past as old biddy steps off the bus.

[CambsBill]

Vipers said:

Kell said:

Here's the video in question.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/row-over-dri...

Is this the same cycle path that the cycling coffee shop owner got all heated about a while back?

Abide to the rules like me, whoops forgot am I allowed to hand hold a cam whilst driving.

Not to mention that at the end of the clip he pulls forward to stop in the cycle box at the lights

[MiseryStreak]

I don't use cycle lanes because:

I'm not legally or morally obliged to.

I ride too fast to be held up by pedestrians, other cyclists, kerbs, give-way sections, trees, lampposts and all the other st you encounter on them.

I like to annoy motorists, it is the number one reason I ride my bike.

[Kell]

blinkythefish said:

As ever on these topics, a quick referral to the "facility of the month" will illustrate everything that it terrible about cycle paths:

http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/Sep...

I've not seen that site before.

Just lost about half an hour of my time looking back through all the posts and shaking my head.

[yellowjack]

Kell said:

blinkythefish said:

As ever on these topics, a quick referral to the "facility of the month" will illustrate everything that it terrible about cycle paths:

http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/Sep...

I've not seen that site before.

Just lost about half an hour of my time looking back through all the posts and shaking my head.

I've got a submission on that site. Sadly, I was unable to supply a better quality copy of the image so it didn't get included in the book. I was asked to provide an updated photo too, as the facility in question has changed massively since I submitted the picture. There was another local one... http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/May...

...which was burned off the road after it was highlighted on that website. I suspect it was planned to feed into an off-road route between the road and the adjacent MOD ranges, which for some reason never got built. You can't access the gravel track behind those trees on the left from the tarmac section, because there's a large ditch in the way. Daft really. Two choices - either make the off road space accessible via a simple little bridge and some vegetation cutting, or flush public money away to bin it altogether and burn off the paint that some contractor no doubt charged the relevant authority a tidy sum to paint on in the first place.

You really "couldn't make it up"...

[Evilex]

I don't use cycle lanes because -

There aren't any near where I live.
None of them go where I'm going.
The urban ones aren't designed for making any real progress.
Too many changing priorities- "cyclists dismount"
Many are strewn with glass/sharp objects that the passage of motor vehicles tends to sweep to the kerb.
If they're heavily used, the range of average speeds of users varies dramatically. Literally by hundreds of percent.
Shared ones with a white line to segregate pedestrians and cyclists are extremely dangerous. To both parties.

[saaby93]

blinkythefish said:

As ever on these topics, a quick referral to the "facility of the month" will illustrate everything that it terrible about cycle paths:

http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/Sep...

ha ha



It's even got a jump ramp - where are the local BMXers?