Badly designed cycle lanes.

[AuraTodd]

The government says it wants to encourage cycling etc, how can they when crackpot councils design lanes like this. Have added links for you to view, please feel free to add your own

 

[HLaB]

Have you seen 'Facility of the Month' there are some really good bad ones there

 

[palinurus]

 

[campbellab]

Caught this clip the other day!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjaP24MdVgQ

 

[asterix]

..but roads are for cycling on!

 

[MontyVeda]

maybe they're not really cycle lanes, but some form of government funded urban art project using the medium of the cycle lane.

This to me demonstrates the labourious routines of life in the modern city... whether it's tv, advert, tv, advert, or work, sleep, work, sleep, even wax on, wax off.

this one is a double edged sword... the signage clearly stating loud and proud that one is entering THE FENS CYCLE TOURISM PROJECT a moment before it ends... coupled with one of the strangest frame designs painted on the tarmac. Then again it is the Fens and far too flat for bikes!

 

[downfader]

a) no one checks up on the workers to make sure they've followed the directives
b) no one checks up on the councils to make sure they follow protocol, directives and guidence set down by the DFT
c) The DFT and successive governments have just paid lip service. Its almost as if they think "if we say it enough, they're BOUND to beleive us!"

 

[S_t_e_v_e]

We should find the poeple responsible for giving the go ahead on these laughable wastes of money and post their details with the photos.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Not sure if this'll work, and I don't know how obvious it is anyway, but on friday night i approached these traffic lights in the lorry. I was going straight on in the right hand lane and there was a cyclist ahead of me in the cycle lane on the left. When the lights changed the cyclist went straight on, as the layout of the bike lane encouraged him to do. However, you'll have already spotted what concerned me, which is that there's a left turn lane next to the bike lane. I'd never go straight on from the left edge of a left turn lane, but it's worrying that the bike lane here puts those who know no better in such a dangerous position.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Well, that didn't work. How do I do Google Streetview screen grabs?

 

[I like Skol]

Yay, no pictures to hand but we have one near work in Hazel grove that is about 8ft long and completely pointless. Are the councils paid per foot of cycle lane installed? It's the only explanation I can come up with.

 

[subaqua]

http://freddio.ueuo.com/cyclelanes/guest_pix/rennie1.jpg


to be fair the lane is closed due to the work taking place alongside. its not chapter 8 compliant though.

 

[BenM]

Hippocratic England

‘The art is long; life is short; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult.’

Hmmm oddly enough that saying, attributed to the Hippocratic Doctors of ancient Greece, seems oddly appropriate to the design and implementation of the cycle farcilities in the UK

The other thing the Hippocratic Doctors did was to use careful observation, logical deduction, experimentation and record-keeping in their diagnoses and treatment - sadly the only thing our trafic planners seem to use is experimentation with the other essentials sadly lacking!

B.

 

[HLaB]

Well, that didn't work. How do I do Google Streetview screen grabs?

When you are in google you'll see a little 'chain Link' icon on the upper right of the screen. Click on that it gives you the link you need to copy and paste.

 

[BrumJim]

... coupled with one of the strangest frame designs painted on the tarmac.

Seen pictures of worse. Somewhere