This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Feeling a bit seasick/10

Riding in secondary position between Ham Gate and Kingston Gate in Richmond Park does that to me. It's not a problem in primary luckily.

why the cycle lanes are so bumpy compared to the road? Is it something to do with not being able to drive a big enough roller over when they tarmac it?

So much this.

That might well be their excuse were these contractors held accountable. Like all shoddy planning for cycling, nothing will be done.

Used the cycle lanes at E&C today, could anyone explain to me why the cycle lanes are so bumpy compared to the road? Is it something to do with not being able to drive a big enough roller over when they tarmac it? Feeling a bit seasick/10

I haven't used them except very briefly once so don't really know what they're like, but I hope they haven't hand-rolled the tarmac. It's always been a limitation of laying non-standard carriageway widths that the normal machines can't be driven over them (too wide, obviously), but I would have expected that they would at least have purchased a few narrower machines for such large projects. They do exist; I heard a few years ago that there was at least one in London that could be hired. That said, hand-rolling normally produces a very wavy surface that wouldn't really have passed muster in any event, so it may be due to a completely different issue.