Cycle Lanes - Check out Highland Council's latest 'attempt'

Leodhasach

Gotta love this one!

http://cycle-scotland.blogspot.com/

Is this the norm? I don't think I've ever seen a cyclepath go in the opposite direction of a one way street before!

Porgy

Fook it - access denied! :evil:

Leodhasach

Sorry! Nothing from my side should be blocking you from accessing it.

Gavin Gilbert

Common here in London. In fact there's one outside my office and another on my 'too much traffic for the main road B option' commuting route.

As long as you're careful on them you''ll be fine; but then cycling standards are that poor in London I suspect everyone just expects us to do things like cycling the wrong way down a one way street.

jonginge

I can access it just fine. That now you see it, now you don't contra-flow lane is a work of genius.

tardington

It is about the terrible terrible inverness cycle lanes.

There is a nice cycle shop there though - they reopened about 6 at night just to sell me a map! The man actually came back to the shop :shock:

ride_whenever

There is one in oxford, and very handy it is too!

Allez Mark

They've painted the Cycle Lane sign the wrong way round, that's all. Then it would follow the same direction as the traffic.

The Rookie

I await with baited breath the lawsuit against the local council for corporate mansluaghter....shame someone will have to die first, but by the looks of that it won't take long.

I was going to say it was incompitance of the highest order, but no-one can be that stupid, so I guess it may well be that there is a cycling hater on the team responsible for cycle paths/ways etc!

Locally we have 2 way cycle paths on one side of the street, although I'm not aware of any solo paths going the 'wrong' way on a one way, it is of course quite feasable and safe IF exceuted properly - this one clearly has been implemented on a 'take you child to work day' by a 4 year old.

Simon

AllTheGear

At least some council members can talk about how many metres of cycle lane they have had made when they are up for re-election. Around here they paint a bike on a pavement (with lots of blind driveways crossing it) and call that a cycle lane.

Kieran_Burns

Holy Hell :shock:

I too thought it was a simple error on someones part while painting the road sign, but that's criminal.

I'd be sending in photos to the local paper and see what they do about it.

Leodhasach

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I'd be sending in photos to the local paper and see what they do about it.

Already done!

Kieran_Burns

Had another look (with a mate in the office)

If you look where the lane 'ends' after the bend, you'll see it steers you onto the pavement. (new dropped kerb)

So you cycle down the shared narrow pavement and onto the wider section, and there is another dropped kerb at the other end

Of course this doesn't excuse the ridiculous give way at the end :roll:

soy_sauce

Allez Mark wrote:

They've painted the Cycle Lane sign the wrong way round, that's all. Then it would follow the same direction as the traffic.

nah, if they were planning to have the cycle lane to following the same direction as the traffic then the cycle lane would be on the other side of the road too.

MrChuck

There's at least one in Birmingham too, although it does at least go the length of the street! I'm not convinced either- the situation at the ends isn't as bad as that example, but everything else tells drivers traffic is going a certain way and you're going the other which is unsafe and just makes drivers think you're flouting the rules.

pst88

MrChuck wrote:

There's at least one in Birmingham too, although it does at least go the length of the street! I'm not convinced either- the situation at the ends isn't as bad as that example, but everything else tells drivers traffic is going a certain way and you're going the other which is unsafe and just makes drivers think you're flouting the rules.

Is that the one on Hill Street/Hurst Street? Had a few "interesting" moments down there before. Cars pulling out without expecting anything coming from the right, mindless pedestrians walking out with their eyes closed. I even saw a girl on a bike get run over right in front of me by a car pulling out of a side street and not looking. I think it could do with a few "Beware of cyclists approaching from the right" signs along with all the one way signs.

MrChuck

pst88 wrote:

MrChuck wrote:

There's at least one in Birmingham too, although it does at least go the length of the street! I'm not convinced either- the situation at the ends isn't as bad as that example, but everything else tells drivers traffic is going a certain way and you're going the other which is unsafe and just makes drivers think you're flouting the rules.

Is that the one on Hill Street/Hurst Street? Had a few "interesting" moments down there before. Cars pulling out without expecting anything coming from the right, mindless pedestrians walking out with their eyes closed. I even saw a girl on a bike get run over right in front of me by a car pulling out of a side street and not looking. I think it could do with a few "Beware of cyclists approaching from the right" signs along with all the one way signs.

There is more than one then! I was thinking of the one in Harborne, running from Waitrose up behind the Junction.
I used to ride down Hurst Street end of town quite regularly (when the Rock Face was still open) but started avoiding it after one too many close shaves- that roundabout on Pershore Road used to terrify me!

TarmacExpert

There are certainly plenty of examples here in Kingston upon Thames of cycle lanes that go in the opposite direction to the traffic. It's kind of the whole point of them, that they provide the benefit to cyclists of being able to take a much more direct route that isn't available to cars. In many cases, the cyclist is able to follow a route along less busy roads than they would if they couldn't go the wrong way down those streets, so they improve safety.

Personally I always proceed with great caution in any cycle lane where I am going in the opposite direction to traffic, or one that is part of a pavement. I don't think it's reasonable to expect to be able to hurtle along at full speed in those situations. I take the view that I'm saving a load of time by taking a more direct route, so can afford to go along at a very gentle pace.