I didn't know they'd invented the "white van bike"

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Noseying on google maps, it didn't take me long before this caught my eye...

Well, its on the cycle path. Its at the traffic lights which are there for cycles only.

I bet some i-pod wearing lycra-lout rode on the footpath to get around it too.....

So, once again "Why don't you get off the road and use the bloody cycle path?"

 

[ianrauk]

to be fair to him, he is changing the poster in the advertising hoarding so wouldn't have been there long... but still see your point

 

[Haitch]

Is that the start and finish of a bike lane?

 

[gaz]

Is that the start and finish of a bike lane?

It looks like you turn left into the cycle lane on the left, then there is a crossing which you use to get to the other side, the road is probably rather busy and 3+ lanes.

 

[Norm]

Is that the start and finish of a bike lane?

It's fairly standard, if the bike lane is to cross the road, to drag it up onto the pavement so that cyclists waiting on the lights don't have to sit on the main carriageway.

 

[Haitch]

Ah, I understand now. Thanks.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Is that the start and finish of a bike lane?

No, it's actually quite a good one. It's the finish of a bike lane that drops down a hill just to the left of the picture, from a traffic-calmed "no through road".

Link from a different angle at a different time http://bit.ly/57qMUO


Only trouble is the road at the other side of the lane is so badly maintained, it hammers wheels so I don't use it despite it being quiet and probably shaving 5 minutes off my journey than my alternative, less boneshaking route.

Where the van is parked, is a cycle-only traffic signal allowing bikes to cross the junction/dual carriageway.

I know the van needs to get to the poster, but the way its left is right up to the grey box where the lane ends and the pavement narrows, blocking the lane to the lights, and also making it difficult for pedestrians/pushchairs/wheelchairs. (see the link to see just how narrow it is where the bonnet would have been) If the van had parked right in the red cycle lane but to the left, there would be plenty of room for everyone to get past

 

[marinyork]

I think that cycle path is fantastically bizarre when you use it, you get to go through a conservation area that is wooded with a strange bend and then out and across the main road with all the traffic stopping.

 

[SimonC]

No, it's actually quite a good one. It's the finish of a bike lane that drops down a hill just to the left of the picture, from a traffic-calmed "no through road".

Link from a different angle at a different time http://bit.ly/57qMUO


Only trouble is the road at the other side of the lane is so badly maintained, it hammers wheels so I don't use it despite it being quiet and probably shaving 5 minutes off my journey than my alternative, less boneshaking route.

Where the van is parked, is a cycle-only traffic signal allowing bikes to cross the junction/dual carriageway.

I know the van needs to get to the poster, but the way its left is right up to the grey box where the lane ends and the pavement narrows, blocking the lane to the lights, and also making it difficult for pedestrians/pushchairs/wheelchairs. (see the link to see just how narrow it is where the bonnet would have been) If the van had parked right in the red cycle lane but to the left, there would be plenty of room for everyone to get past

+1 to that, ride up and down Eccesall Rd (the road in the picture) every day, and its full of lumps and bumps, and they have just resurfaced it alledgedly, but only did the car lanes, not the bus/bike lane. Great.

Local knowledge based rant over.