Cycle Superhighway Extension - East.

My experience of riding on the road where there's an off road cycle lane alongside it, even one shared with pedestrians, is one of regular harassment and being deliberately put in danger.

When I lived in Nottingham, I used to ride this way daily:

http://goo.gl/maps/xJDGq

I would always have to mix it with the pedestrians and crap covered surface on the shared use paths either side, as taking the road, despite there being a whole lane to overtake and fairly mild levels of traffic, would result in constantly being cut up, beeped at, and abuse hurled at me.

Non cycling friends would rarely have any sympathy when I'd complain of it. Well you should be on the cycle lane shouldn't you?

Fuck segregation.

Fuck badly designed segregation, poorly implemented.