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I've seen a couple of articles on that story, all of them awful.

For example:
"The area reserved for pedal-powered transport measures 6.5ft (2m) wide, leaving just 4.5ft (1.4m) for cars, lorries and buses to squeeze through."
The area reserved for bikes? have you looked at the photo you have used to illustrate the article? It's not a solid line, idiot, all vehicles are allowed to cross it.

Then you get someone from the AA (because they know about the roads) giving a really incredibly ignorant quote. Depressing.

Exactly. It's advisory only. Never let sense get in the way of a story that sells, eh? The annoying thing is that such stories sometimes become widely-accepted urban myths.