[Seventyone]

“‘It’s a joke!’ Driver sparks debate over Highway Code plans to give cyclists priority over drivers – Leicestershire Live” https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/its-joke-driver-sparks-debate-5737855

I especially like the bit about the person complaining that their insurance went up after a cyclist “went over his bonnet”. I’m sure the cyclist did it on purpose and the driver was in no possible way responsible…

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[AlsoSomniloquism]

I wonder if the person who

I wonder if the person who now can’t get off his drive are from one of them houses  who illegally drive over the pavement because they have fudged a drive and never applied for a drop kerb. Or is their too many cyclists for them to get out.

And of course, if you use the Google time machine, you can see the road usually has cars parked down both sides and a parked car is more space then the width of the cycle lane so who did they blame broken mirrors on then (plus tbh, wing mirrors are designed to be pushed in when parked.)

And finally, as far as I can tell it is a one direction lane, so surely the cyclists who are “using …. the other side of the road instead of the dedicated cycle path” are legally going in the other direction. 
 

[hawkinspeter]

They’re most likely paying

They’re most likely paying for that privilege, though

[brooksby]

This evening every single

This evening every single wand had been taken up and there were vans and lorries parked along there. Apparently they’re filming for series three of War of the Worlds in Bristol at present (pretending it’s London) and that takes priority over safe cycling… 

[Hirsute]

Or park in them as you have

Or park in them as you have reported before !

I did use google street view for that road and lo and behold the cycle lane the otherside (with no wands) has a few parked cars in it !

[Captain Badger]

hirsute wrote:

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“Laxmi Javar, 32, and her neighbours have had cars crashed into due to the lack of space available for cars to drive down the road.”

It’s a very wide road

https://goo.gl/maps/ME9L6mMF2xbgd3Sd8

Thise 4×4 are very wide “cars”…..

[brooksby]

Here in Bristol there’ve been

Here in Bristol there’ve been complaints that the pop-up cycle lanes marked out with wands are narrowing the roads.

Except they aren’t.  The wands are simply separating the painted lanes which were already there from the motor traffic.

By complaining that the wands are narrowing the road, these people are just admitting that they always used to drive in the cycle lanes…

[Hirsute]

Found this one too on a pop

Found this one too on a pop cycle lane

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/pop-up-cycle-lane-staying-5654903

“Laxmi Javar, 32, and her neighbours have had cars crashed into due to the lack of space available for cars to drive down the road.”

It’s a very wide road

https://goo.gl/maps/ME9L6mMF2xbgd3Sd8

[Hirsute]

Pretty depressing that people

Pretty depressing that people think road tax exists and equals some right to use the roads.

I have yet to see a cyclist weaving in and out causing accidents or scraping the side of cars. However, I have seen a few vehicle on vehicle accidents a few vehicle on property accidents and found a few scrapes on my car when returning to a car park !!

[brooksby]

I just read that.  Made the

I just read that.  Made the mistake of reading BTL. 

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