When I first saw this
Google Streetview link
in Basingstoke I couldn't quite work it out as I cycled past on the road, I just though it odd, but after reviewing it on streetview it is clear that on a residential road(not that busy when I have been down it) they expect you to pull off to the left, give way to any traffic and then cycle across the road to join the other cycle path.
I think you would have to be a pretty timid cyclist to do this, or is there some obscure traffic law that says you can't stop in the road to signal right to turn on to a pavement/ shared use cyclepath (assuming there is oncoming traffic) if there is no actual road junction, thinking about it further, how is this manouver any different to turning into a driveway.
Anyway candidate for shortest and most well constructed cycle path?
Peter