A great set of pictures of stupid cycle lanes, like the 15-mile cycle route alternative to a six-mile road journey, the cycle ride straight into a phone box, and this one from Middlesbrough:
I remember the fifteen-mile rides I used to do to my late Grandad’s house in New Malden (back when I lived in Croydon) which used to involve riding up the footpath next to Reigate Avenue, near Sutton. I couldn’t use the cycle lane because it was full of the locals’ parked cars.
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Why does your city have to be so dark and rainy? InshaAllah when I get there I hope there is an unusual heat wave, like there was the last time I was there.
Wonder when us motorcyclists will be pinching a sneak up your lanes. Bus lanes are already becoming fair game for us. I’m proud to say I don’t use cycle lanes, but sometimes use those boxes at the front of traffic lights. Though in some councils they’re already marked for shared use.
Saracan: bus lanes are already open to motorcyclists in Bristol and “on trial” in parts of London, such as on the A23 through Brixton. I don’t have a problem with it - I have a problem with idiots who ride motorbikes on footpaths and through pedestrian subways like the one near my house, which is a shared ped/cyclist subway - a dangerous short-cut by stupid and lazy people.
Salam alaikoum In Paris it is a well known fact that bike lanes are, well, parking. One of the more famous “parking” lanes is going down Boulevard Menilmontant from Pere Lachaise. Only have recently have police started ticketing offenders, not out of respect for bike lanes but probably for the cash.
The best thing about living in Switzerland are the bike lanes. A sight to behold macha Allah. People use them, and I mean people on bikes.
Yusuf
It seems Boris Johnson reads your blog - he wrote a column (for The Guardian, no less!) two days after your entry here on the travails of being a cyclist in London. This might be the only point on where the two of you agree, so enjoy!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm.....17,00.html
Don’t get me started on inconsiderate motorcyclists. They re as much a cause of grief for me as cabbies. Well maybe not quite. I’ve seen people pull the silliest maneuvers you could imagine; seemingly immune to any logic. And the same with cyclists; but the thing with them is there’s no license to be endorsed, and no recourse to punishment.