boydj said:The lane could be wider. The street is wide enough not to need a cycle lane anyway, but by Glasgow standards is not too bad a lane. The savvy cyclists should know to pull out a bit wider before the junction, and the not so savvy are likely to be cycling in the gutter anyway. Left hooks and right crosses are down to bad driving and it's experience, not cycle lanes that mitigate these.
If you want a really bad example, try cycling North across the Clyde on Commerce St. From a reasonable lane on the left, the cycle lane goes onto the pavement where it meets an East / West bi-directional pavement lane just where the peds accumulate to cross the road - here
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...0067&spn=0.001283,0.00338&t=k&z=18&iwloc=addr
In fact the whole of the Broomielaw cycle lane is a joke.
I don't know the area, but maybe we really need to do something about this. Maybe we need to get out filming cycle lanes that we think are dangerous or plain stupid showing why and send the details to the people that are painting them. I'm really getting fed up with these misguided attempts at helping us (ticking boxes)