[hawkinspeter]

https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/invisible-cycle-lane-finally-made-more-visible/

Looks like they’ve finally realised what a stupid idea it is to make bike lanes the same colour as the rest of the pavement. If only there was someone they could have asked who could have let them know (hint: any cyclist in the world).

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[hawkinspeter]

chrisonabike wrote:

We’ve got that on a approx 50m section of “pavement” near me.  Doesn’t actually connect to anything, but for those folks who know where to look you can find small “low-viz” bicycle symbols on a few tiles!

So much of this crap appears to be because it was given to a (visually creative) design intern / new junior member of the team to “make a place” on the pictures and that was the most thought that it got.  “Hey – Sue – can you make one of your nice visualisations of the layout we’ve agreed here?  You know – pastel colours, trees, someone with a pram.  Oh – and include some bike stuff…”

This particular section is a very busy part of central Bristol, with lots of pedestrians and lots of cyclists. The roads around it have loads of buses and taxis which are not great for cycling along, so most cyclists will be using these lanes if they figure out where the lanes actually are. Luckily, the pedestrianised bit in the middle is fairly large so most cyclists just go carefully to avoid the peds and there’s little friction between them AFAIK.

Here’s a typical section on the pavement by the Hippodrome: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RfTNMPpSD1LXne2r9

[chrisonabike]

We’ve got that on a approx

We’ve got that on a approx 50m section of “pavement” near me.  Doesn’t actually connect to anything, but for those folks who know where to look you can find small “low-viz” bicycle symbols on a few tiles!

So much of this crap appears to be because it was given to a (visually creative) design intern / new junior member of the team to “make a place” on the pictures and that was the most thought that it got.  “Hey – Sue – can you make one of your nice visualisations of the layout we’ve agreed here?  You know – pastel colours, trees, someone with a pram.  Oh – and include some bike stuff…”

[brooksby]

But it does have little

But it does have little engraved six-inch square bicycle logos on it! 

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