Idiot in car trying to make a point by driving down cyclepath

[mjr]

Utterly crap infrastructure, waste of money and better off not there, it's actually creating conflicts rather than helping to avoid them.

Maybe. It's a near miss. If the council ever actually finished the bloody thing (a Dutch-style crossing at Rampton and maybe connect across the alltoments to the sports field and school at Cottenham) and maintained it properly, it could be a decent example. This is why the olympians are right to demand 5% of every year's transport budget instead of the current short-term special-target funds like the Safe Route To School grants which I suspect paid for that. An 8-year-old may well be going slow enough to make the tight turns at its ends, but a sports club won't. These things should be designed for everyone, or clearly labelled as to their flaws (which should be a hint to motorists why a sports club isn't on it).

 

[Jamieyorky]

That has to be one of worst bit of driving ive ever seen !

 

[mjr]

If only those people specifying cycle lanes, spend maybe 5 minutes thinking about design before spending millions of pounds of our money.

You probably can't hire the best designers on short-term low-budget cycling project grants, and even the skilled few you do get (generally those with beliefs in cycling as a solution) are going to be hamstrung by grant bids generally hurriedly rustled up by non-highways project managers who didn't spot the need for things like junctions at the ends and periodic access points along them.

 

[G3CWI]

That has to be one of worst bit of driving ive ever seen

You must have led a very sheltered life.

 

[snorri]

That has to be one of worst bit of driving ive ever seen !

It was a lot better than the driver indicating displeasure by giving the cyclists a close pass which probably would not have shown up satisfactorily on video to interest the police. .

 

[r04DiE]

[QUOTE 4452132, member: 45"]Crap for who though? Dawdlers who don't want to have to mix with traffic may disagree.[/QUOTE]
Dawdlers are traffic.

 

[Goggs]

I don't understand why they don't hire someone Dutch.

 

[Goggs]

[QUOTE 4452135, member: 45"]How often should cyclists be expected to explain themselves?[/QUOTE]

Once should be enough.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Of course & I get that but the drivers on that stretch probably don't understand the point the cyclists are making. Those drivers will just see the cyclists as arrogant.

When I choose to ignore unsuitable cycle paths, which I do for 99% of cycle paths that I see, I'm not "making a point". I'm not trying to communicate my feelings about the cycle paths to anyone. I'm just ignoring them and getting on with my day.

If someone asks for an explanation of why I'm not riding on the cycle path, I don't provide it. It's none of their business.

 

[snorri]

I don't understand why they don't hire someone Dutch.

Because they think they know what is required, some of them even cycle dontchaknow?
Sorry.


Design is only one part of the problem, the failure to spend on maintenance is another.

 

[Goggs]

Yeah I know. Brits are experts at everything.

 

[EnPassant]

I don't understand why they don't hire someone Dutch.

And blow the whole budget on an EasyJet ticket?

 

[Goggs]

Oh to be Dutch..

 

[Goggs]

[QUOTE 4452249, member: 45"]How do you envisage this happening? Scrolling led sign on their back?[/QUOTE]

I'm not really sure mate. Perhaps people could stop voting for self-serving morons. Might be a start anyway.

 

[Paulus]

Because I asume he wanted to make a point. The point being that if there is a cyclepath, they should be using it, and not using the road he pays for with his road tax. I may be wrong, but I'd wager quite a lot of money on me being close to the mark.

I assume you are being a bit tongue in cheek with this comment, If there is a cycle path , cyclists have no need to use it in law, and as to road tax, well.