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Crappy cycle lanes

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  • April 25, 2018 at 2:57 pm #28420
    tommyraleigh

    Enjoying this Twitter account at the moment… https://twitter.com/shitfrastructur 

    Is this a countrywide thing or something Bristol council are particularly bad at? Doing my head in! 

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  • April 26, 2018 at 8:38 pm #917853
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    rogermerriman

    Sometimes it’s not that the

    Sometimes it’s not that the infrastructure is poor in its self, but the demand is less than expected? I commute number of miles past Heathrow along the Parkway it’s totally segregated and mostly wide path, but it’s barely used. I see between 2 and 0 bikes every day on it.

     

    It’s a busy route in that traffic is always busy on the road, often at a standstill but no one seems to ride it! And it’s a vile drive, I hate driving in due to that section.

    April 26, 2018 at 7:52 pm #917851
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    srchar

    The “mini Holland” in Palmer

    The “mini Holland” in Palmer’s Green is some of the worst infra I’ve seen.  The galling thing is that plenty of effort went into building it; it’s not just a white line and some green paint.  It puts you in the door zone, it’s not grade separated from the pavement so it’s usually full of peds staring into phones, on bin day it is full of rubbish bags, at bus stops you are put directly in conflict with either bus passengers or cars, the give-way markings at side streets that the lane crosses are roundly ignored… it’s just terrible!  The road, which is a safer place to cycle, has been narrowed to fit in the cycling infra, so the previously reasonably safe road is now a rather dangerous, narrow road.

    Crap, expensive cycling infrastructure is, in this case, worse than no infrastructure at all.

    April 25, 2018 at 3:58 pm #917849
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    brooksby

    I got followed along there

    I got followed along there the other morning by a skip lorry, which then stopped to unload its skip, (filling the entire width of the cycle path).

    April 25, 2018 at 2:58 pm #917847
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    tommyraleigh

    Cyclists can’t ride, lorries

    Cyclists can’t ride, lorries technically can’t load or unload because there’s nowhere else for them to do it… ridiculous!

     

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