The few cycle routes near me are nothing more than narrow poorly maintained pavements with the odd blue sign along them.
There’s a section on my commute that is a pavement and not a cycle route which is twice the width of said “cycle route” and in great condition which I use most days 😯 and I’ve not come close to hitting a ped’ yet! 😉 🙄
So I’m safe on one and not on the other ❓ Quite frankly I’d argue the opposite is true in this scenario.
Cycle route/pavements design, designation and suitability and is an utter nonsense in a hell of a lot of places, probably due to the fact that the party’s involved in implementing them have no idea/don’t care about cyclist and haven’t ridden a bike since they were children.
My father in-laws a local councillor and told me that one of the utterly useless go nowhere and dangerous cycle routes they put in was done because they had!! to spend the money on cycle route and frankly just stuck one in where it wouldn’t be in the way and as it turns out is of no use to the vast majority of cyclist in the area who would no doubt have rather the money was spent in a danger hot spot which there are plenty.
Common sense and mutual respect is all that’s required when using pavements on a bike (not all cyclist do this unfortunately). If only car some drivers could learn the same on the road with us.
driving and 4×4 down a pavement is another thing all together
