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Should be a nationwide default, if the cycle lane isn't finished and able to be used, there should be massive 10 foot tall letters to be painted every 20 feet on the road saying 'bikes are on the road because there is no viable alternative, calm down you absolute bells'.
Every single time I go south side (no matter which bike) I get 'taught a lesson' by some prick in a white bmw/audi/mercedes for not using the flooded/frozen over/has a white bmw parked 100% inside it/full of cones/turned over glass bank/not actually built yet cycle lane. Keep feeling segregated lanes are going to help, but then actual experience is they seem to drive more a wedge between 'us and them'.
On a positive note, converted a few folk from 3 wheel cargo's into 2 wheel cargo's. All had similar tippy over problems and unable to fit into some of the cycle infrastructure we have in Glasgow.
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Hey, apologies for my vacant look when I saw you on Vicky road the other day.
Topically, I was distracted by a pranny in a bmw that was shouting at me for not having been on the cycle lane at that bit where the cycle lane is virtually unusable.
Mrs M_V has started riding to work to avoid public transport and while I’m still furloughed I’m riding with her.
Interestingly it was me, on the cargo bike that held the driver’s attention much more than her on her ‘normal’ bike. Kind of opposite of reports on here of cargo bikes getting more room.
I think if I was choosing a route into town I’d avoid Vicky rd at least until the cycle lanes are finished as there definitely seems to be an expectation for you to use them, regardless of how difficult/impossible that might be but she hasn’t got the confidence to ride on roads that don’t have cycle lanes (Ie Kilmarnock road) especially since there was that fatality at the junction in the Bungo last year.