Badly designed cycle lanes.

[deptfordmarmoset]

Here's one for perfectly legal pavement cycling from down my way

 

[mgarl10024]

This red box shown here always make me smile.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en...oid=YQEEda7vcE_D7PNISmEOlw&cbp=12,242.97,,0,5

As a bike, I'm supposed to be in the 'bike' lane, however my bike lane abruptly stops because there is a metal box in the path!
You can easily reach speeds >15mph down that hill, and when dark you need to remember to avoid that box!

MG

 

[Yorkie Martin]

Seen pictures of worse. Somewhere

Sat at work in designated "Cycling City York" (the local council has considerable public funds to pay for this!), and if I go home an alternative route I have a cycle lane exactly like this which ends suddenly, about 300 yards before the next junction!!

The road doesn't get narrower, so "logic" can't suggest why it stops there, except that there used to be (going back 20+ years) a council boundary at around that point. Maybe that explains cycle paths like this?

 

[summerdays]

That one is impressive... I like the fact you move out into the road before you give way to the traffic!!!

 

[HLaB]

That one is impressive... I like the fact you move out into the road before you give way to the traffic!!!

Or do you do what the arrow says and turn left into the kerb and does that deflect you back into traffic

 

[ohnovino]

This one is on my commute, or at least it was until the council covered it up with a thin skim of tarmac to hide their shame. I've pinched the picture from Warrington Cycle Campaign's excellent Cycle Facility of the Month site, where they have this to say about it:

It can be quite tricky to ride with the precision needed stay within cycle lanes when they are extremely narrow. This one on Pighue Lane in Liverpool is only the width of a drain cover (about a quarter of the recommended width), but the engineers of Liverpool City Council have provided a 45° camber to ensure that any less skilled cyclists who wobble slightly to the right will slide back down into the gutter.

 

[gaz]

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[marinyork]

Not sure about badly designed but I quite like these in Rotherham .

 

[DrSquirrel]

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!"

I've tried.

The councils don't tend to care so much and put you in contact with the contractors, who apparently have all the decisions regarding design and traffic management (the level will vary of course), and said contractors tend to say that the DfT guidelines are in fact that... guides.

 

[400bhp]

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33s

Cycling through there is like the morning after a very spicy curry.

 

[ufkacbln]

Many years ago Gosport won a magazine (Cycling Today) write in for the shortest cycle path

It was exactly 17 inches long and consisted of two sets of dotted lines. You couldn't actually fit a wheel into it!

 

[HLaB]

This one is on my commute, or at least it was until the council covered it up with a thin skim of tarmac to hide their shame. I've pinched the picture from Warrington Cycle Campaign's excellent Cycle Facility of the Month site, where they have this to say about it:

I like how they've added the arrow, did they honestly think anybody would use it the wrong way not that many would use the right way either

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Not sure about badly designed but I quite like these in Rotherham .

Whaaaaaaat...??

Never seen those...I know it's Rotherham but quite frankly I'd not even expect such lunacy from Mexbrough!


Anyway, since a lot of the pictures etc are reposts but still worth revisiting, here's the lovely riverside cycle path in Sheffield again

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[summerdays]

Whaaaaaaat...??

Never seen those...I know it's Rotherham but quite frankly I'd not even expect such lunacy from Mexbrough!


Anyway, since a lot of the pictures etc are reposts but still worth revisiting, here's the lovely riverside cycle path in Sheffield again

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBxefdukk04[/media]

We have one like that but at least it ends in a footpath - bit muddy but a quick 10 m and then you are through to a road ... but why didn't they complete it.

And here is my silly cycle obstacle lane...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...oid=nW28h3CEW-Vo7dXsruCo_Q&cbp=12,333.74,,0,9
I assume you are meant to turn into it from the road and then turn again back along the road ... me I always cycle on the main carriageway - luckily its in a quiet hippyish area of town and the residents seem laid back and I never get any hassle for not using the lanes at either end of the tunnel.

 

[marinyork]

We have one like that but at least it ends in a footpath - bit muddy but a quick 10 m and then you are through to a road ... but why didn't they complete it.

The silly thing with the sheffield one is its a brand spanking new facility. Here it is (in a shot with newer imagery) and as if by magic here it isn't (next position!), ooh and it's not on optical pictures either! It'd be a useful facility if it crossed the river (out of shot) but it doesn't, although there was talk of this.