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Designated Cycling Lanes

by PaulClarke
Mon, Sep 08, 2014 09:33
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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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bikebot | 10 years ago
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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.

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Him Up North replied to bikebot | 10 years ago
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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 14 ]

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bikebot replied to Him Up North | 10 years ago
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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 14 ]

That's astonishing.... Leeds has a cycle lane?

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severs1966 replied to Him Up North | 10 years ago
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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)

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Him Up North | 10 years ago
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Section 140 of the highway code addresses this

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

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

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farrell | 10 years ago
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This is possibly my favourite bit of council cycle lane signage:

http://sharpedgetrip.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/form-two-lanes-when-cycle-la...

Genius.

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CXR94Di2 | 10 years ago
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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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