Wilmslow Road Manchester Commute

[tightwad]

If this topic hasn't been done before I'd be amazed, as I was yesterday when I had, for the first time in many years, to ride down this particular road just slightly after rush hour. The number of fuc#kwits on bikes doing idiotic moves was astounding, from Fallowfield all the way to the University, where I veered off towards the Apollo or whatever it is now called. The madness of the road/ cycle lane layout does not help either.

Now I can RLJ with the best of them and undertaking is never usually a problem on my normal commute but no chance yesterday. One dic#head on a road bike tried undertaking a taxi at a pinch point with a bus in the bus lane next to him on left. When the taxi driver moved forward the rider went mental at the driver even though he was 100 % to blame for the situation he found himself in.

It must be hard work driving down there.

 

[gb155]

Its a joke, but motorists can and are just as bad, as proven when I got knocked off last year.

but the idiots on bikes down that road don't help

as such, I , where I can, refuse to cycle down there now.

 

[fossyant]

Students.

 

[dand_uk]

just looking at streetview out of interest and some very poor cycle facilities on that road - I mean what were the highway engineers thinking when they put this cycle lane in: GSV

better off with no markings on the road at all than making motorist think you should be in the doorzone

 

[DTD]

I reckon if you buy a bike from Edinburgh Cycle Coop in Rusholme on Wilmslow Road and can ride home in one piece, you've past an initiation test.

 

[straas]

It is a horrendous stretch that fortunately I only do once a week - the driving around there is abysmal and the cycle facilities worse not helped by an awful road surface.

Shame I need to go that way to get onto the loop.

 

[Bayerd]

It is a horrendous stretch that fortunately I only do once a week - the driving around there is abysmal and the cycle facilities worse not helped by an awful road surface.

Shame I need to go that way to get onto the loop.

It's a pretty bad stretch of road to drive down as well, especially at lunchtime, trying to spot a parking space so I can visit one of the Kobedas on there whilst also watching out for maniac students on fixies is pretty taxing

 

[fossyant]

The road's closed this morning. Truck in the side of the Sangaam curry house - hit a car !

 

[SavageHoutkop]

I reckon if you buy a bike from Edinburgh Cycle Coop in Rusholme on Wilmslow Road and can ride home in one piece, you've past an initiation test.

 

[SavageHoutkop]

The road's closed this morning. Truck in the side of the Sangaam curry house - hit a car !

Not when I went past...? although there did seem to be a bumper bashing just before Sainsbury's with the two involved (despite me not seeing any damage to either vehicle) having a chat about it in the middle of the junction with at least one of the cars running, with no one sitting in it.

 

[SavageHoutkop]

It is a horrendous stretch that fortunately I only do once a week - the driving around there is abysmal and the cycle facilities worse not helped by an awful road surface.

Shame I need to go that way to get onto the loop.

Do you have to? Alt routes down (eg) Ladybarn Lane

 

[SavageHoutkop]

If this topic hasn't been done before I'd be amazed, as I was yesterday when I had, for the first time in many years, to ride down this particular road just slightly after rush hour. The number of fuc#kwits on bikes doing idiotic moves was astounding, from Fallowfield all the way to the University, where I veered off towards the Apollo or whatever it is now called. The madness of the road/ cycle lane layout does not help either.

Now I can RLJ with the best of them and undertaking is never usually a problem on my normal commute but no chance yesterday. One dic#head on a road bike tried undertaking a taxi at a pinch point with a bus in the bus lane next to him on left. When the taxi driver moved forward the rider went mental at the driver even though he was 100 % to blame for the situation he found himself in.

It must be hard work driving down there.

It is. I cycle it every day from c. Fallowfield in, coming home I sometimes do the alternate missing the main Rusholme drag (as doing that at night is filled with people parked in cycle lane, pulling in / out of parking without looking, u turns, you name it). Mornings are actually OK if you don't do it with the main lot of cyclists; so before 8:30 is much better.

If you go in just after rush hour; you're looking at students (going in in the morning, anyway), some of whom have no road skills whatsoever. Then there are the ones who think they're invincible because they ride fixed.

Road surface is also quite appalling in many places.

My personal favourite is the idiot in a private hire taxi who seems to view the front door to Sainsbury's in Fallowfield as his personal parking spot; on a double yellow just after a junction in the cycle lane just before a bus stop.

 

[fossyant]

Early Morning crash - radio wasn't that clear about it when I was listening on the bus....

Minibus apparently at 3:20 am !!