Cycle lanes with broken lines...

Are cars allowed to park on these?

 

Yes. They are completely without purpose or value.

 

Just like all other cycle-lanes.

 

...except for contra-flow cycle lanes, which are great.

 

Dyke Road and Dyke Road Avenue in Brighton/Hove are a prime example, I take great pleasure in claiming the primary position when the cagers dump their cages in the 'cycle lane'. Sorry for the localised rant!

 

they still have value and meaning, granted it's reduced compared to solid lines

 

Naah, generally if there are any parked cars in the cycle lane they're worse than useless. Somehow the motorists expect us to stay in a cycle lane even if that would mean constantly moving in and out inbetween parked cars. All that lane changing, in traffic, it isn't just tiresome it can be dangerous.

 

Not to mention it encourages cagers to shout at you for not riding in a straight line!!

 

Indeed. Theres a cycle lane just like this down the road from here. Parked cars all over it, made worse by having a whole load of kids using it to get to school, riding very timidly in the cycle lane and either pavement hopping or giving way to cars in the main lane of traffic rather than just stay in the road. And as so many 'cyclists' are acting thus, many motorists get angry at those cyclists who quite correctly do not.

 

If it has a broken line it is an 'advisory cycle lane' - that is not what it sounds like, it simply indicates that there is no legal enforcement for it (as stated above, pretty pointless/useless). Those with solid lines are 'compulsory cycle lanes' i.e. it has a traffic regulation order in place for parking restrictions so that any vehicle contravening that order (parking in it) is an enforcible offence.

 

Aptly named for Brighton !!

 

I find that some cycle lanes (dashed or solid) and other traffic calming features are just a magnet to parked cars. Its a nice segreated space out of the traffic flow so they park there

 

Devil's Dyke

Indeed, as they lead towards the Devil's Dyke

 

OOH! Apologies in advance for being picky...

They aren't 'compulsory' in any way. They are mandatory cycle lanes, mandated for use only by pedal cycles, with no motorised traffic allowed. Sorry but IMO the use of the word compulsory in relation to cycle farcilities makes my hackles rise as it smacks of the 'get in the cycle lane!' cry of too many a motorised moron. There is no compulsion about them, we don't have to use *any* farcility.

Ta. Normal service will now be resumed

 

Mandatory is almost as bad, people hear the term and believe its mandatory for cyclists to be in the lanes.