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Designated Cycling Lanes

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  • September 8, 2014 at 8:33 am #22332
    PaulClarke

    Does anyone know the official rules for designated cycling lanes. Where I live there are several 2 lane cycle paths, but they are used as off road parking by several of the houses that they pass, making it difficult or sometimes impossible to use the path. When cycling alone I use the road, but when with my young children we end up weaving on and off the pavement (which I strongly disprove of doing). I have asked the local community support officer and they did not know and to be honest were not particularly interested.

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  • September 9, 2014 at 1:09 pm #813483
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    severs1966

    Him Up North wrote:bikebot

    Him Up North wrote:
    bikebot wrote:
    The problem is that the enforcement will be the responsibility of your council, rather than the Police, and many councils chose not to prosecute all kinds of parking offences which means they become normalised.

    Unless you live or work in Leeds where the council have gone on a jihad against bus and cycle lane flouters…

    Really? I haven’t noticed. Riding through Leeds, I still notice cars parked in many cycle lanes, and no reduction in the number of cars travelling in bus lanes. When did the “jihad” begin?
    Leeds council are notorious for their non-interest in cycling issues, which is why their Regent Street cycle path was half-built, and then work seems to have been abandoned/stopped. It should have been completed ages ago, and in its half-built state it is a death trap, waiting to suck unsuspecting cyclists in and then throw them under the wheels of cars and buses.

    If the council isn’t even committed enough to cycle paths to finish building the ones that it has paid for, would they really care about their being used in an inappropriate fashion?

    (Bus lanes may differ)

    September 8, 2014 at 10:54 pm #813481
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    bikebot

    Him Up North wrote:
    Unless

    Him Up North wrote:

    Unless you live or work in Leeds where the council have gone on a jihad against bus and cycle lane flouters…

    […he said, speaking from bitter experience X( ]

    That’s astonishing…. Leeds has a cycle lane?

    September 8, 2014 at 8:46 pm #813479
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    Him Up North

    bikebot wrote:The problem is

    bikebot wrote:
    The problem is that the enforcement will be the responsibility of your council, rather than the Police, and many councils chose not to prosecute all kinds of parking offences which means they become normalised.

    Unless you live or work in Leeds where the council have gone on a jihad against bus and cycle lane flouters…

    […he said, speaking from bitter experience X( ]

    September 8, 2014 at 8:42 pm #813477
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    bikebot

    The problem is that the
    The problem is that the enforcement will be the responsibility of your council, rather than the Police, and many councils chose not to prosecute all kinds of parking offences which means they become normalised.

    September 8, 2014 at 11:05 am #813475
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    Him Up North

    Section 140 of the highway
    Section 140 of the highway code addresses this

    https://www.gov.uk/general-rules-all-drivers-riders-103-to-158/multilane-carriageways-133-to-143

    Doesn’t say much for the PCSOs when they don’t know the highway code, does it?

    September 8, 2014 at 10:55 am #813473
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    farrell

    This is possibly my favourite
    This is possibly my favourite bit of council cycle lane signage:

    http://sharpedgetrip.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/form-two-lanes-when-cycle-lane-is-not.html

    Genius.

    September 8, 2014 at 10:31 am #813471
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    CXR94Di2

    Speak to the council, do they
    Speak to the council, do they have sign posted at each end, solid lines etc. If no success you could try adverse publicity through a local paper.

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