guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
Shortest cycle lane
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gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
I've seen shorter
Lizban
New Member
- Location
- Blackheath, London
There's loads shorter than that - 2 in the space of 50 yards in Blackheath Standard - one where the painted bike on the road is almost bigge than the lane!
manalog
Über Member
Thats not short as other have said. This one is in Jamaica Road SE16, not only you have to illegally jump on the pavement you then have to give way to traffic! http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wlI don't know if this is the shortest stretch of marked cycle lane but it must be up there.
I know the reasoning for it is to guide cyclists off the road and onto the pavement cycle path but it still looks crazy, all 5 metres of it.
SavageHoutkop
Veteran
- Location
- South Manchester-ish
My favourite:
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I think it exists as the crossing there is a bike and pedestrian crossing - so people coming from the shared use pavement on the other side of the road will cross at the lights, then 'merge' at the yield sign, but why anyone would actually use it as 'intended' rather than just cycle on the road from the crossing is beyond me.
(the rest of the pavement in view on that side of the road is not shared use)
link
I think it exists as the crossing there is a bike and pedestrian crossing - so people coming from the shared use pavement on the other side of the road will cross at the lights, then 'merge' at the yield sign, but why anyone would actually use it as 'intended' rather than just cycle on the road from the crossing is beyond me.
(the rest of the pavement in view on that side of the road is not shared use)
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
this one is the best or should i say worst
Not the shortest ever but made it into the national news 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8599140.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8599140.stm
As Easy As Riding A Bike
Well-Known Member
this one is the best or should i say worst
Oh, that one is priceless. Not only completely pointless, but actively dangerous, encouraging cyclists into the gutter at the pinch point.
It's almost as if there is some malevolent road transport engineer who wants to endanger cyclists.
Why aren't these people properly trained? How do they get these jobs? What the f*ck is going on?
As Easy As Riding A Bike
Well-Known Member
Not the shortest ever but made it into the national news
I like how Cardiff City Council are quick to point out that "it is too wide" and it will be quickly be narrowed.
Keep up the good work chaps.
EDIT - bad link
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
I met a chap at an event, who said that since he'd taken up cycling in the last year or so, he had a much better idea of what cyclists needed from facilities. Shame then, that for a decade before that, he'd been designing them...
nasserblue
Active Member
- Location
- London
As a for instance there's this one...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...=0aFvvFBkInp_IP6JMKEXLA&cbp=12,348.5,,0,13.23
Although it's actually quite useful as it allows you to go legally the wrong way down a one-way street...
As Easy As Riding A Bike
Well-Known Member
iAmiAdam
New Member
There's one near me that leads onto a path just before a roundabout. Not even a metre.
