Angry Yeovil cyclist says police should be called to illegal drivers dodging roadworks

@chrisonabike HS2 was merely the biggest in a long line of transport investment failures, just the most spectacular. It was an ego project which never had an economic case, as all the independent analyses showed, but it still went ahead. Just imagine what kind of cycle network we'd have if that £100bn had been used for cycling.

@mitsky "I can’t remember the figures, but I believe there is a significant return on investment when active travel is well funded and good infrastructure is put in place." Generally taken to be 20:1, and even the Ministry for cars says it's about 5:1, so way in excess of any other transport investment, and any government spending.

But what we can say is that Gove was crossing on a red man and really wasn't paying attention.

I've just spent far too long pondering whether "turn right (except cycles)" and "no left turn (except cycles)" both amount to the same thing in this case, which probably reinforces your point. To further confuse things, it looks like those no entry signs across the road are waiting to unveil "except cycles" modifiers.

@tomlew All-rounder is new buzz word. Like gravel three/five years ago. Each brand must have one in their catalogue even if they don't sell.

never tried, but would a group voice chat like disqus or even whatsapp, and a single ear bud not provide full functionality?

The signage there is pretty confusing - it's not immediately obvious which sign the 'Except cycles' is meant to be modifying - the turn right, or the no left turn. On closer inspection, it turns out that they both effectively mean the same thing, because the route straight ahead is no entry, but that sign is across the road, and in itself is slightly obscured by potential confusion with the adjacent tube station signs. Any signage that requires you to look in multiple places and solve a logic problem to interpret it isn't really doing its job as a sign very well.

@ktache Good grief, that is bad "reporting". It basically starts with "a study by a consultancy, which we're not going to link to..." And then moves on to talk about "cyclist casualty rate" which in Reading is 29% and in The City is 48%, making it the most dangerous place for cyclists, apparently. As the study isn't provided, I'm left to assume they haven't controlled for the number of cycle journeys, with the earlier item on road.cc showing the number of cycle journeys are more or less even with car journeys in The City.

I won't be visiting X to check, but I hope someone pointed out to "Somerset-based Conservative councillor Lucy Trimnell" that what the sign actually clearly says is "no left turn - except cycles".

@quiff Not all 3D plates are legal. Obviously I was referring to the illegal non-compliant ones. That wasn't the main point of my post though was it?