Man protests bike lane...by rowing on it

In California they eliminated a fairly well used bike lane because all the yellow street directional and dividing lines were "confusing" and plain unsightly to some of the locals. 

Since Captain Bly's rowing is stationary, shouldn't he be ticketed for obstructing traffic?  Or is it okay because it's bikes and not cars?  So much for "all must obey the same traffic laws".

In California they eliminated a fairly well used bike lane because all the yellow street directional and dividing lines were "confusing" and plain unsightly to some of the locals. 

Since Captain Bly's rowing is stationary, shouldn't he be ticketed for obstructing traffic?  Or is it okay because it's bikes and not cars?  So much for "all must obey the same traffic laws".

Did see this being constructed as I drove along in Ayr but haven't had chance to cycle on it yet.

Saw the end of it from Hillfoot Road - easy to see the bright blue colour!

Good reason to take bike down to Ayr!

Haven't tried Milngavie, but it does seem to extend further than Holmston Road. The lanes themselves seem a decent enough idea (although not fully convinced by Homston Road lanes petering out), but they all end where it gets too complicated for road infrastructure and tend to dump us out at the most incovenient and unsafe point.

Centre of Glasgow lanes are OK but pedestrians don't seem to understand them at all. Then again, with the widely observed 20 mph speed limit, cycling should be idylic in Glasgow... (must admit I completely forgot when driving in centre at the weekend - nobody else is anywhere near 20 so hard to remember).

Those lanes are a bit better than the on/off pavement lines used in Hamilton, but Holmston Road actually had two reasonably wide pavements that I'd have thought ideal for shared use. (Edit well at least before reaching the cemetary - narrows on that side)

The Kyle Academy drop off will be quite an issue as housing has been built up all round it so few opportunies to stop a car (regardless of the right and wrongs of that).

It's a pity that an attempt to put some cycling infrastructure in place has generated so much negative coverage when that will just reinforce more of the predjudice some have and add hype to the media stirring things up.

I'm not a fan of cycle paths at all - we should just get the cars and lorries off the roads - and this one looks particularly shit:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/road-bosses-admit-carried-o...

I'd be inclined to encourage the drivers to park in it, thus keeping them off the road, and forcing the cyclists back onto the road where they belong, obstructing decent folk.  

I'm rather intrigued by the logic of some of the people quoted in the newspaper. On the one hand the cycle lane is going to cause congestion; on the other hand it has taken away the places where visitors could previously leave their cars. How does that work?

So thick people live in Scotland as well as in

 England. Is there no escape?

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/fears-over-free-protest-par...

Fried Mars bar and double dipped chips with cheesey sauce pls.

Maybe he should set the machine up on the road next time, just to compare and contrast whether more congestion and accidents are caused

What I don't understand about the cycle lane, is why it is on one side of the road? Surely you build two protected cycle lanes either side of the road?

Cyclists coming towards the camera should really be in a different lane on the other side of the road. And you should have a full length protective barrier, rather than blocks with gaps between to catch your wheel on.

Also...for everyone south of the border the News we get here in Lahndahn in the Metro is far better informed, timely and politically astute than the Daily Record which is at best a sports comic with headlines and small words for the hard of thinking.

This is what we have to deal with ... if it's not the Glasgow Herald and the Scotsman it's this pish...no wonder this poor deluded neanderthal has got himself dressed up like a worrying halloween 'responsible adult' and got his fizzog on the news.

It's a sad story in itself, but the comments here are the funniest i've seen in a long time 

And yes, the design of that cycle lane is rubbish like pretty much every other one in Scotland

Has he been arrested for obstructing the highway?  Cut and dried case with his confession videod for all to see.

The rowing machine seems a perfect symbol for bike-lane protesters.  There's a good deal of hot air produced but nobody gets anywhere.

Is that a bottle of vodka next to him?

Potentially causing “traffic chaos” or potentially reducing obesity.

I can see why it's a bit of a brain scrambler.

I bet he hasn't even got insurance for that thing either. It's a bloody discrace I tell you! 

He must be off his scull.

It might be rather dangerous to protest poorly used roads by riding a bike trainer on the highway!

This guy must have a lot of time on his hands.

How would he like it if we cycled in canals to protest his protest?

Typical rowist. There's a perfectly good river running right next to the road, but he chooses to row in the bike Lane. It's an outrage and I expect that he hasn't even paid road tax on his rowing contraption.

Nice to see the Village People still entertaining everyone.

Quote:

local councillors are nonetheless threatening to join forces to “rip it out” because they fear it will cause congestion and "accidents".

How the hell would a bike lane cause congestion and "accidents"?
Is it not traffic that causes congestion and road user's mistakes that cause "accidents"?

No helmet or hi-viz; disgraceful! I bet he rowed through a red-light too

During the time I watched this protest, I didnt see 1 pedrestrian. Out with the footpath!

Since Mr Russell lives in Scotland, not North America then he will have been protesting against the the bike lane.