Cycle Super-Highways

[psmiffy]

Gaz you little media bunny...you're in the ctc newsletter

More exposure for the Gaz video - becoming the authority on the blue paint - but it struck me that it was a bit lazy of the CTC - you would think that with their campaign hat on that they would have a bit more to say - and possibly influence the final form of these lanes

 

[Origamist]

Sorry to be so lazy, but is there a link for that?

https://www.cyclechat.net/

 

[gaz]

haha i try my best! all this exposure is good for the cause!

 

[gaz]

Gaz - what do you look like?

You don't have a red light on the back of your helmet do you? Saw a cyclist today with a flashing red light and a camera pointing forwards on the same helmet.

Oval just before 8am.

Youngish, wearing sunglasses most of the time, silver helmet with camera attached to the top, red constant light on the front of the camera. Bike is red with white bar tape and white walled tyres, airzound under my left hood on the bars.
I turn off that road at stockwell to go towards vauxhall, so wouldn't have been me at the oval.
Say hello if you see me.


My video has got 2,000 views today

 

[Bollo]

.....My video has got 2,000 views today

Maggers is going to get jealous!

 

[gaz]

Maggers is going to get jealous!

Make that a little over 3,000 now.

 

[Origamist]

You & Yours Chapter 6 Cycle Superhighways:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s8jx8#p007vymn

 

[gaz]

You & Yours Chapter 6 Cycle Superhighways:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s8jx8#p007vymn

Wroth a listen, it seems that more and more people are trying it out from the media and luckily their opinion seems to be similar to the rest of us.

With regards to the width of the lanes, plenty of space for one cyclist, but not enough space to overtake someone if your filtering in traffic.

 

[EC2boy]

Is it me, or are they widening the bus lanes along the Stockwell - Oval stretch? It looks like the lanes are about a foot wider than they were last week.

Also, I was in too much of a rush this morning but the dunce contractors are putting temporary road work signs actually in the middle of the existing bike lane. Cue, lots of new cyclists stopping in the middle of the lane and motorbikes/other bikes bumping into the back of them. Completely insane that the contractors don't even know how to work around a piece of new cycle infrastructure.

 

[Origamist]

Cycle Superhighways – Waste of Paint or Copenhagenization?

Podcast:

http://thebikeshow.net/cycle-superhighways-waste-of-paint-or-copenhagenization/

 

[gaz]

hahaha a small reference to my videos in there.. good enough for me. Cheers for the post!

 

[Norm]

The Guardian's view of the super highways. Made me laugh as the first few metres are unavailable because there's a car parked there.

 

[Origamist]

Is it me, or are they widening the bus lanes along the Stockwell - Oval stretch? It looks like the lanes are about a foot wider than they were last week.

Yes, I presume they're doing this in order to make the bus lane wide enough to get a 1.5m strip of blue on the left. The recommended min width is 4.5m, however, I suspect TFL will go down as low as 4m.

Also, I was in too much of a rush this morning but the dunce contractors are putting temporary road work signs actually in the middle of the existing bike lane. Cue, lots of new cyclists stopping in the middle of the lane and motorbikes/other bikes bumping into the back of them. Completely insane that the contractors don't even know how to work around a piece of new cycle infrastructure.

Little thought seems to have gone into the implementation phase of the CSs as the current conditions are problematic for cyclists.

 

[Wheeledweenie]

Anyone chipped in to say the proposed west London route's pants? Coz it is.

I cycled it last year with a friend who'd been asked to check it out by the mayor's office. It's completely ridiculous. It's from Kensington to Ealing/Perivale along the A40 cycle track. Parts of it are so narrow you can barely get one bike along it, all of it's shared with pedestrians and it doesn't go through anywhere useful. If you want one end or the other then maybe, but even then it makes no sense. Large parts of it are the local residents' only access to their local bus stop so it's crammed with pedestrians and, frankly, if it was my local pavement I'd be royally p*ssed off about it.

 

[gaz]

I haven't had the chance to go along route 3. But I will be filming the whole route once it is finished.