More "quality" journalism

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...

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 !

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... 

They're most likely paying for that privilege, though

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 4x4 are very wide "cars".....

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.