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This one is ridiculous but not funny ( as in 'Crap Cycle Lanes' book ridiculous).
I'd like to meet the council 'planner' retard that thought this was going to be of any benefit to anyone. You are expected to turn off left onto the pavement for about 22 yards and then 'introduce' yourself back onto the main road. There is even a little dashed double white line thingy to stop at . Sort of reminds me of the piece of board my Dad made for us when we were little kids with thick white painted road markings for us to play our toy cars on.Funny this, I get 'This image is no longer available' when I try to go further along the street to see how this facility ends. The problem here is the pinch point that arises from the right turn stub lane that exists here. That cyclists are directed onto the footway here also indicates that there have probably been quite a few collisions. Note also the narrow westbound lane. Carriageway space is allocated very badly. A poor piece of engineering.
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There's one in Stratford which appears out of nowhere on the pavement; behind a bus shelter. It goes for all of 20m, then stops.
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Funny this, I get 'This image is no longer available' when I try to go further along the street to see how this facility ends. The problem here is the pinch point that arises from the right turn stub lane that exists here. That cyclists are directed onto the footway here also indicates that there have probably been quite a few collisions. Note also the narrow westbound lane. Carriageway space is allocated very badly. A poor piece of engineering.
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It ain't only in London there is retard cycle lanes, Between Tesco in Bournemouth and ASDA, I was following one and It ended on a dual carriage way (busy one too).
We have quite a few around here that seem to exist for 20-30 yards and then just dissapear leaving you on a busy main road which seems to negate the point of one being there.
Whoever plans them doesn't seem to put much thought into it.
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In Ireland it is compulsory to use cycle lanes that have solid lines, these lines also mean that drivers should NEVER enter the cycle lane.
Guess how often that is obeyed.
Also on my commute there is a cycle lane along the side of the dual carriageway, it was put there quite a few years ago, they then places 1000's of apartments beside that dual carriage way, yet never changed the path which is solely a cycle track.
Or there is a cycle overpass also that is solely for bikes which I always get dirty stares for using as children choose to walk across it too
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The cycle lane on the North side of Blackfriars Bridge, the one that takes you 30 feet round a corner, is a fucking disaster at the moment. At the far end of it are roadworks that throw those who don't know about them back into traffic abruptly, and this morning a mad vagrant with a dog on a string. Unfortunately, it is one of those cycle lanes that do provide a degree of comfort as it normally keeps you out of the flow until the road widens again (the road is narrow because of the cycle lane, of course), so the fact that the roadworks have been allowed to drag on there is the more galling.
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The cycle lane on the North side of Blackfriars Bridge, the one that takes you 30 feet round a corner, is a fucking disaster at the moment. At the far end of it are roadworks that throw those who don't know about them back into traffic abruptly, and this morning a mad vagrant with a dog on a string. Unfortunately, it is one of those cycle lanes that do provide a degree of comfort as it normally keeps you out of the flow until the road widens again (the road is narrow because of the cycle lane, of course), so the fact that the roadworks have been allowed to drag on there is the more galling.
+1....but even when the roadworks aren't there, watch out for drivers turning left across you just as the cyclepath ends!
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There's one in Stratford which appears out of nowhere on the pavement; behind a bus shelter. It goes for all of 20m, then stops.
To be fair on that one, it looks like there is new paving before it starts and going back along the road there are shared use facility signs and the start at the bike land opposite the junction with Service Road 1. Crap of the council to to properly reinstate it when they resurfaced the pavement though.
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This one in Cavell St, E1 always amuses me. Sadly I'm not a unicyclist so I can't use it.
It'd be even more amusing if it didn't give the impression that Cavell St is a good place to ride - there's a huge site entrance for the new Royal London Hospital about a hundred yards down the road.
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This one in Woolwich makes me laugh
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=woolwich&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=9.739769,28.300781&ie=UTF8&ll=51.491518,0.061594&spn=0.002505,0.006909&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.491373,0.061676&panoid=VjjxyWd0b3Cq02lYgH6-PQ&cbp=12,316.2864890253439,,0,12.488971699360155They seem to have removed the bike sign but the markings are still on the pavement.
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i cant see it!? where?
Bottom of pic left side, there is a suspicious looking shadow that resembles a bike
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In Ireland it is compulsory to use cycle lanes that have solid lines, these lines also mean that drivers should NEVER enter the cycle lane.
Guess how often that is obeyed.
I can well believe it, I had a robust exchange of views with the driver of a van with Dublin plates in Manchester just last month.
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This one is ridiculous but not funny ( as in 'Crap Cycle Lanes' book ridiculous).
I'd like to meet the council 'planner' retard that thought this was going to be of any benefit to anyone. You are expected to turn off left onto the pavement for about 22 yards and then 'introduce' yourself back onto the main road. There is even a little dashed double white line thingy to stop at . Sort of reminds me of the piece of board my Dad made for us when we were little kids with thick white painted road markings for us to play our toy cars on.