Cycle lane hall of shame

[siadwell]

This http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=London+E17+6PT,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.575229,-0.029655&spn=0,359.977856&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.575136,-0.029599&panoid=hqHkQBvmogY1oXvrDn5vjA&cbp=12,150.74,,0,-0.14

is near me. What's interesting is that if you move one arrow back down the road you can see how it was before. So now instead of a narrow, not great cycle lane we now have several very wide pedestrian islands which create pinchspots where all but the narrowest of cars have no option but to move over into the cycle lane (as the black car in the pic demonstrates).
Nice one Waltham Forest council.

The idea would be that the cycle lane gives priority to cyclists at the pinch point. As if.

I've seen it done better, where there was a mandatory cycle lane with red tarmac and everything, but only through the pinch points. Mind you, that had me scratching my head at the time, so I doubt a non-cycling driver would have a clue how to react to it.

 

[fruitbat]

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...=IHf5I4vDehXToKkZ4AaObw&cbp=12,86.42,,0,24.72

The same car is parked there every day. Really irritates me as there is plenty of room on the driveways

And this one slightly gets my goat: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...jPmx61oJIF0bv0vLwkUC1w&cbp=12,168.31,,0,24.22

I was going to say I don't like cars parked in cycle lanes but it's legal. Just as well I looked at streetview first. For your first example the car is both parked on the pavement and in a mandatory cycle lane. It might be worth trying to get something done about that, although I suspect the local council and the police will pass the buck, to each other.

The second example you'll just have to get over. The alternative to parking over the pavement is for the cars to be parked completely over the cycle lane and into the main carriageway, which would be legal. I don't like it, but its something they can do, just like drivers might wish us to use cycle lanes but we don't have to.

 

[fruitbat]

I don't see the problem with that one. It lets cyclists enter a two way street which is no enter for motor vehicles. I have a similar one near me. Although I still haven't worked out the cycle lanes getting to and from it I just end up pulling into the right hand lane and then into the little cycle bays.

There's some like that near me. The problem is that the cycle lane is far too narrow - no chance of fitting a bike trailer through that. Fortunately for me the ones I normally encounter only have a small length of kerb installed so cycling in the car section (wrong way!) is not a problem in practice, albeit technically illegal. Had the cycle lane been 1.5m as recommended it wouldn't be a problem at all.

 

[hackbike 666]

WTF!!!!! What a spectacular waste of money all those signs are.

Still you have to laugh!!!!!!

Especially as those signs would be ignored anyway.

 

[Bollo]

LOL Hey, At least its nice and clean.

Aye, the council are good at washing away the blood.

 

[StuartG]

I was going to say I don't like cars parked in cycle lanes but it's legal. Just as well I looked at streetview first. For your first example the car is both parked on the pavement and in a mandatory cycle lane.

I have never understood this about solid lined cycle lanes. The London Waterloo Bridge southbound solid laned cyclelane is always blocked by parked cars precisely at 7pm end to end making it very dangerous for a late rush hour commute.

There is a sign to say the bus lane is 7am to 7pm but no sign AFAIR about the cycle lane. This is complicated by a single yellow that suggests it is OK after 7pm. So is that parking legal or illegal?

I guess the real solution would be to make the protective bus lane 24/7. Many lesser bus routes are 24/7 so I can't see why this one is not.

 

[SavageHoutkop]

very short stretches of dualway cyclelane on btis of pavement on both sides of a roundabout. Each cyclelane is less wide than the width of the bike, and barely as long as a bike. No I've never seen anyone even attempt to use them.

I did try as a new cyclist.

 

[marinyork]

I have never understood this about solid lined cycle lanes. The London Waterloo Bridge southbound solid laned cyclelane is always blocked by parked cars precisely at 7pm end to end making it very dangerous for a late rush hour commute.

There is a sign to say the bus lane is 7am to 7pm but no sign AFAIR about the cycle lane. This is complicated by a single yellow that suggests it is OK after 7pm. So is that parking legal or illegal?

It's illegal. You won't get anywhere from parking enforcement though as they don't care about that sort of thing .

 

[SavageHoutkop]

In response to the OP, I present my entry in the same vein.
My most pointless is currently this one though (although the streetview doesn't give it justice).

 

[summerdays]

I give you one of Bristol's finest... starts off too narrow...

and then it gets narrower.... and if you look you can see how it ends.

The road is too narrow for the cycle lane really and uphill.

 

[hackbike 666]

I have never understood this about solid lined cycle lanes. The London Waterloo Bridge southbound solid laned cyclelane is always blocked by parked cars precisely at 7pm end to end making it very dangerous for a late rush hour commute.

There is a sign to say the bus lane is 7am to 7pm but no sign AFAIR about the cycle lane. This is complicated by a single yellow that suggests it is OK after 7pm. So is that parking legal or illegal?

I guess the real solution would be to make the protective bus lane 24/7. Many lesser bus routes are 24/7 so I can't see why this one is not.

That is one firking awfully thought out bridge.Probably because it was built a million uears ago.OTOH.

Why is it different for that Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge?...where Blackfriars Bridge has more space.

 

[StuartG]

That is one firking awfully thought out bridge.Probably because it was built a million uears ago.OTOH..

Opened 1945. Only 4 years older than me, though I like to think I'm in better shape - at least not having my guts ripped out ATM!

 

[manalog]

I give you one of Bristol's finest... starts off too narrow...

and then it gets narrower.... and if you look you can see how it ends.

The road is too narrow for the cycle lane really and uphill.

Are you sure this is a Cycle Lane, looks like someone has got the hump and painted lines near the kerb! Oh and they forgot the Bike symbols...

 

[summerdays]

Here is the start just back down the road... I do use the off road cycle lane up till that point as I'm very slow up hills. And at the start there is enough room to paint the bike sign... I expect they couldn't fit it in at the other end of the lane.

Luckily I don't have to do that route very often.

 

[palinurus]

This one near me is pretty dumb. It's really short, and it expects you to give way if you want to overtake cars in the parking bay.