I am going to write to my local councilor

[mr_cellophane]

and ask why this was built, how much of my money it cost and wouldn't that money have been better spent filling in the potholes at the start of my vid ?


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiCDARJXIIc

 

[hackbike 666]

That's nice.

 

[Oddjob62]

Classic case of cycle lane built by someone who has never had to cycle that route (and probably doesn't even cycle)

 

[Steve Austin]

Thats quite sensible. A car is unlikely to bump up the kerb to use the cycle lane there!

Have you reported the holes on Fill that hole? They do get holes filled very fast

 

[Cking]

The roundabout looked like the surface of the moon!

Rgds Cking

 

[yello]

I think, not that I can know, that it's there because it's a mini-roundabout and it's to offer the cyclist some protection from cars coming from the right. And possibly meaning the cyclist doesn't have to stop to give way. I don't know that though.

 

[garrilla]

I wrote to my local councillor about the oddest Cycle Lane they have built so far

It has no access point, runs 20 yards before it stops for a bus shelter, runs again 20 yards to a junction, runs another 40 yards ends without an exity point.

It takes less that 20 clicks with StreetView

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...S7G5Cid4xVvz2aQ&cbp=12,245.1114094149805,,0,5



They won some award for it apperently!

 

[Oddjob62]

Thats quite sensible. A car is unlikely to bump up the kerb to use the cycle lane there!

The extra kerb on the right of the lane would have sufficed, leaving out the up and down bit. Would probably have been 1/4 the cost as well.

 

[Oddjob62]

snip

haha... that's fantastic.

 

[eldudino]

It looks like it's to cater for the trend of kids riding jump-bikes (around flat Essex) with saddles set so low that they're pointless. I'm sorry to say but I don't think you were going fast enough, you need to hit it at 35mph+ to 'table-top' it Moto-X style!

 

[stoatsngroats]

It looks like it's to cater for the trend of kids riding jump-bikes (around flat Essex) with saddles set so low that they're pointless. I'm sorry to say but I don't think you were going fast enough, you need to hit it at 35mph+ to 'table-top' it Moto-X style!

exactly the opposite of my thought....it's a speed hump!