Twickenham motorists fined for illegally using cycle lane as police launch crackdown

The first Gatso camera in the UK was installed on the A316 at Twickenham Bridge where the speed limit was 40 mph but it was set to operate for vehicles travelling at 60 mph and above (they only intended to catch the worst offenders. In the following 22 days 22,939 drivers were caught travelling at 65 mph or above.
Daily Telegraph 22 May 2012

There are cheap and easily implemented solutions to this. A line of those plastic posts, like the ones recently featured in a blog about guerilla cycle lane makers in Seattle, or "armadillos" as proposed for Royal College St in Camden and as used in Barcelona - they look like large rugby balls, but in half lengthways, and glued to the road at an angle so that vehicles can't drive between them.

Fines and points are all very well, but solid physical separation will always beat any form of appeal to human nature.

So one wonders how many more complaints about dangerous drivers would have been ignored had the borough commander not have experienced it for himself?

It would appear that the only way cyclists can get the authorities to see our point of view is to force them to undergo what we have to put up with on a daily basis.

Drivers will continue to use cycle lanes for parking or driving on until they are banned completely from being on them in the first place.

What is the point of having a cycle lane if it's legal at times to park or drive on it?

On the South side of Glasgow, we have a cycle lane on both sides of the A77 for miles and miles, however, cannot effectively use it most of the time due to parked cars.

It's time cycle lanes were designated for bikes only.

A few good bollards will sort this sort of thing out. A bit of blue paint too, looks like there is plenty of room for a superhighway and a CCTV camera, then they might get the idea.

It's almost as good as Chris Bainbridge of Hammersmith and Fulham Council saying that they are considering a redesign of the New Kings Road/Bagleys Lane because of complaints from Motorists gettgin fined for encroaching the hatched box, not from it being highlighted by cyclists as a dangerous junction.

I wonder what the offence actually is? Drivibg over a solid white is geerally failing to comply, but deliberately giong down a lane is surely driving without due consideration, or whatever the latest equivalent is, and should be worth 3 points and £60 a go.
Perhaps locals will take photos (which show number plates) of this happening and send them in to police, just to see if they take action

Cycle lanes like these always need barriers to stop cars just ignoring the marking and driving in the lane.
Would be good if more Police took this more seriously.

£30 - wow that is going to make people think twice.

How about points on the licence?

The sub headline says it all.

I can understand why motorists would be aggrieved by this.

They can probably turn the corner and quite legally drive and park in another stretch of cycle lane.