Parking on cycle lanes.

[Mike_P]

the powers were devolved to Councils, who employ parking companies and they use it as a money making exercise. .

Not all Councils employ parking companies, mine uses its own staff

 

[Brandane]

we know how far British people can walk when they're picking up food or using a cashpoint.

A shortened story..... Sometime in the mid 90's, I'm standing on the pavement outside a bank in broad daylight about 5pm during the "rush hour" when traffic was quite heavy on the main road through Gourock. There are double yellow lines, and triple kerb markings, meaning an instant ticket for infringers. The restrictions are there because it's quite a narrow road, and parking is allowed on the opposite side. There was also a large car park about 100 yards away. Along comes a car and drives up with the two nearside wheels on the pavement, nearly taking my toes off. Car stops, driver gets out, so I chin him about why he has stopped there. He tells me he's going to use the cash machine. I tell him he better get an extra £20 out then, because in those days that's how much a parking ticket cost IIRC. The best part about this story? I was standing in full Police uniform, with a parking ticket book in my hand! Some people just don't use their brains. He probably went off in a sulk thinking he had been hard done to .

 

[Slick]

A shortened story..... Sometime in the mid 90's, I'm standing on the pavement outside a bank in broad daylight about 5pm during the "rush hour" when traffic was quite heavy on the main road through Gourock. There are double yellow lines, and triple kerb markings, meaning an instant ticket for infringers. The restrictions are there because it's quite a narrow road, and parking is allowed on the opposite side. There was also a large car park about 100 yards away. Along comes a car and drives up with the two nearside wheels on the pavement, nearly taking my toes off. Car stops, driver gets out, so I chin him about why he has stopped there. He tells me he's going to use the cash machine. I tell him he better get an extra £20 out then, because in those days that's how much a parking ticket cost IIRC. The best part about this story? I was standing in full Police uniform, with a parking ticket book in my hand! Some people just don't use their brains. He probably went off in a sulk thinking he had been hard done to .

I'm guessing sulking is the very best you could expect in Gourock?

 

[Brandane]

A shortened story.....

Same place, another time... I'm walking along the street when my CID colleagues pull up in an unmarked car. The passenger, a Detective with a sense of humour, tells me that there's a car sat on the double yellow lines causing a tailback of traffic. He tells me that they had asked the driver to move, but had been told to "F*** off, you're not in uniform!". So off I storm, ticket book in hand, to administer justice to the offending driver. I spot the car, parked as described by my colleagues, with no-one in it. I'm just about to start writing the ticket when the driver approaches me and asks "Is there a problem, Officer?" I really didn't have the heart to issue a ticket on this occasion, to the pair of nuns in full regalia who had approached me... . It was later established with DC Wind-up that he had seen them leaving the car and going into the nearby flower shop.

 

[Drago]

I once arrested a Moonie, and he was aggrieved he actually swore at me! Serves him right for having no lights on his bicycle.

 

[Bazzer]

Much to my surprise, it seems to depend upon when the cycle lane was created.
There was an article about it in the recent Cycling UK magazine and there is an older article online here

 

[Ming the Merciless]

IIRC it is only mandatory lanes (solid lines) that are affected and it is the councils given the power to enforce the rule. I am not holding my breath.

As with close passes they ought to accept video and / or photographic evidence.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I once arrested a Moonie, and he was aggrieved he actually swore at me! Serves him right for having no lights on his bicycle.

You wasn’t it a full moon and flashing and therefore bright enough under the regulations?

 

[rualexander]

 

[Chris S]

4 years later and it's still not a deterrent.

 

[simongt]

Another one of these very laudable ideas from the powers that be, but again, those powers not realising how difficult it would be to enforce effectively.

 

[wheresthetorch]

Time for this video again, methinks. 😂

View: https://youtu.be/bzE-IMaegzQ?feature=shared

 

[Alex321]

Excuse my ignorance but what is a compulsory cycle lane? I thought they were all optional, and given the detritus that usually lives in such lanes I'm always wary of using them. How do I recognise compulsory lanes?

They are all optional to use by cyclists, but ones with a solid white line are compulsory for motorists to stay out of, while ones with a dashed line are advisory only.

EDIT - Oops, just realised that was a response to a 4 year old post.