Cycle lanes

if you got them Im happy for you.
The principle of halting traffic turning off main roads to give way to cycle paths crossing is Dutch, and is a complete reversal of our priority system.
have you got pics, links? just because I like to wind people up about this sort of thing in boring meetings.

From what I've seen, the Dutch appear to drive more sensibly that the destination-hungry British. Yeah, here's some photos...

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You've got like 18 inches of that scratchy tramac stuff before the cycle lane starts, for the motorist to spot that the cycle lane exists and to stop as the cyclist heads past the front of the car. And it leaves the motorist stopping dead with most of their car hanging out in the road, waiting for someone to rear-end them and shunt the stopped car over the cyclist anyway.

I spoke to some drivers, they all agreed that if you just dumped these on British roads, without making the public aware of their existence, people just won't "see" them as they turn a corner into a side-road. None of them had heard of this type of lane, nor had they remembered seeing one (despite having driven across them without spotting them). And other motorists who aren't turning won't be expecting the turning car to just come to a dead halt like that.

These just look like accidents waiting to happen as far as I can see.

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