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No cycling sign... on Buckinghamshire shared use path

Council think someone may have turned it round

Messages don’t come much more mixed than a sign telling people they can’t cycle on a designated cycle path. The Bucks Free Press reports that just such a thing has been spotted in High Wycombe.

The ‘no cycling’ sign appears at the junction of Arch Way and Premier Way, at a point where a painted cycle lane on the road becomes a shared use path.

The sign has apparently been there for some time. Transport for Bucks suggest that it may have been tampered with and turned to point the wrong way. However, despite it being reported several weeks ago, it has still not been addressed.

In 2011, ‘no cycling’ signs were placed immediately above National Cycle Network (NCN) route signs by Birmingham City Council. In that instance, a third sign attempting to clarify things read: “The cycle route here follows the roadway. Please DO NOT ride on the footway.”

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) joined Sustrans in asking for the Birmingham signs to be removed.

“To be effective, signage needs to be clear and consistent,” said Kevin Clinton, the charity’s head of road safety. “These two signs could easily confuse cyclists because they appear to be giving conflicting messages.”

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Eric D | 8 years ago
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The tactile paving suggests pedestrian only: agrees with the sign being the wrong way round.

There is a ramp down to another shared path behind the wall.
https://goo.gl/maps/MmUshJnBbt12

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Butty | 8 years ago
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And this happened with speed signs being turned around by pranksters, yet this makes a story for some reason?

The only thing coming out of this is yet another dreadful cycle lane design being shown.

 

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Redvee | 8 years ago
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Streetview from Nov 2015 shows the sign in the same position, one side shows a no cycling sign with a shared use path sign on the opposite side.

 

http://tinyurl.com/h2pp9g5

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1961BikiE | 8 years ago
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I just like the comment that the council "think someone may have turned the sign around". You'd think they would know really. I assume someone signed the work off as complete?

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Leeroy_Silk replied to 1961BikiE | 8 years ago
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1961BikiE wrote:

I just like the comment that the council "think someone may have turned the sign around". You'd think they would know really. I assume someone signed the work off as complete?

Me too. You'd think that maybe, just maybe, after the council thinking that someone may have turned the sign around. They give some serious consideration (or maybe a bit more thinking) to turning the sign back around the correct way? Obviously a risk assessment would have to be carried out before any work could be undertaken, and a full scale review into local traffic disruption whilst the roads closed for several weeks in order to mend the problem. But hey look at the bright side, at some point in the future they'll be a shared cycle route with the appropriate signage. Won't that be glorious!

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P3t3 | 8 years ago
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Depressing waste of money there.  The sign, the post, the paint is just stuff being put on the street that will never be used and is fundamentally useless.  By the time you add up all the bits its probably about £2-5000 being wasted on something with no function.  

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zedthegreat | 8 years ago
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OK I don't know the road at all, and am only going on one picture, but why would you want to direct bikes onto that path anyway? If there was someone with a buggy / wheelchair / bags of shopping coming the other way there isn't exactly space is there? And I doubt they would be expecting to face a bike coming round the corner.

I am all for infrastructure, but just painting a bike on a pavement doesn't cut it!

Oh, and the sign.......

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wycombewheeler replied to zedthegreat | 8 years ago
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zedthegreat wrote:

OK I don't know the road at all, and am only going on one picture, but why would you want to direct bikes onto that path anyway? If there was someone with a buggy / wheelchair / bags of shopping coming the other way there isn't exactly space is there? And I doubt they would be expecting to face a bike coming round the corner.

I am all for infrastructure, but just painting a bike on a pavement doesn't cut it!

Oh, and the sign.......

A most useful cyclepath between the skate/bmx park and the McDonald's. No real benefit though as you would just have been directed to cross the road where cars are sweeping off the dual carriageway (normally without indicating) might as well stay on the road as the cars are slowing to turn into either mcdonalds or sainsbury.

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Beatnik69 | 8 years ago
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Someone kicked over a traffic cone down my street last week.

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Dnnnnnn replied to Beatnik69 | 8 years ago
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Beatnik69 wrote:

Someone kicked over a traffic cone down my street last week.

Would you like some counselling? Not councilling though.

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