No cycling signs in Holborn (including bus lane)

Sorry mate I didn't see the sign.

Sorry mate I didn't see the cyclist.

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My response to the former is the same as the latter: try paying some attention.

Sorry mate I didn't see the sign.

Sorry mate I didn't see the cyclist.

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My response to the former is the same as the latter: try fucking paying attention.

this.

Are you joking? I bet you've ridden past a shittonne of signs you couldn't recite the details from.

maybe i'm mega stupid but a red line through the bike in the sign would probs make it clearer.

To be fair, I'm aware of it because I took the theory test when learning to drive.

Still, no excuse for ignorant.

The Holborn viaduct has been discussed a million times; anyway ..

IF I am stupid enough to ride through there my stupid excuse would be 'in my country (india) anything in red circle means only allowed for that' which is true and I am technically an immigrant :P

It's a basic tenet of using roads in the UK that a red circle with something inside it means that thing is not allowed.

I maintain that if anyone doesn't know that they should stay off the road until they have learnt the basics of UK road signage because frankly they could be a danger to others.

That route has been closed to cyclists for years, people need to know what signs mean!

I've always considered these signs a little ambiguous:

This would be a tad clearer:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_070644.pdf

When teaching bikeability kids in years 5 and 6 understand that red signs are prohibitions and that blue signs are positive instructions.

I've always considered these signs a little ambiguous:

This would be a tad clearer:

I'd be pretty pissed off if a driver did not understand this

And yet, intuitively, it is still ambiguous.

maybe i'm mega stupid but a red line through the bike in the sign would probs make it clearer.

Yep, but in Britain in 1997 a small boy mistook one of the signs for the Ghostbusters and had a nervous breakdown when realising it wasn't the case at all. They've been this inferior version ever since.

And yet, intuitively, it is still ambiguous.

Yep.

So just to check, it's bus lane with a pretty daft restriction on it that most people either don't know about or choose to ignore - except those that want to act like smartarses on the internet?

#sickburn

So just to check, it's bus lane with a pretty daft restriction on it that most people either don't know about or choose to ignore - except those that know the highway code?

ftfy

I don't know the highway code. I have a driving license. Top shelf law-making over here...

Fuck me. If you think people who know the highway code are smartarses you're on an evolutionary level with Jeremy Clarkson.

I bet you all think this means 'WARNING EXPLODING CARS'

And this means 'STUNT DRIVERS AHEAD'.

No wonder I have such a stressful commute, I've just found out you guys drive on the LEFT!

I mean, why bother learning the rules of the road?

Who can be arsed with that?

Fuck me.

And this means 'STUNT DRIVERS AHEAD'.

must spread rep...