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Your last statement is correct as far as I know. A segregated cycle lane is a normal lane of carriageway and drivers turning over it into or out of a junction must give way to those in the lane
Edit: I don't think the proposal is to make this the Highway Code but rather to make it specifically in there so there's less misunderstanding I would have thought
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Apologies for the dredge, but though that this was the best place for this question.
Chris Boardman was on the Today programme this morning talking about this proposal from British Cycling.
Can anyone confirm how the highway code on turning left currently applies to the cycle superhighways? I regularly see uncertainty from drivers and cyclists as to who has right of way where a car is turning left across the path of a cyclist continuing straight on.
Sometimes both will stop, other times (as I saw this morning), vehicles will assume that they have right of way, and that cyclists should stop while they turn over their path.
My gut feeling is that, like with any other lane of traffic, the obligation is on the turning vehicle to wait until it's path is clear before turning, but is this correct by the Highway Code?