[Closed] clever parking seen on commute to work

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Ride over it..

On my commute I pretty much ignore the cycle lanes - they are crap.

Ride where its safe - maily on the pavement actually since they are empty and the road full of cars and lorrys.

Meh.

Might have been tight for parking the night before? I'd blame the road design personally...should have a section of solid line cycle lane in the road to help merge with the traffic (or the solid line extended a bit further if thats what its for) if not at least some double yellows.

Melt his retinas with your Troutie 😀

Its motorist like this that give the rest of us motorists a bad name.

Just look at that parking - It gives cyclists absolutely no option but ride around it in masses of space!! 🙄

Your grips are minging

Apart from it being parked within 10m of the junction what's wrong with that?

his headgasket has probably just gone

That is a heinous act, hope you key'd the car in revenge.

his headgasket has probably just gone

+1

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Parked facing the wrong way too - something else that should be banned.

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Can you still get those stickers for these situations?

This idiot (blue Citreon) had the temerity to [i]crash[/i] this morning next to the cycle lane! Forcing the traffic to use [b]my[/b] lane. Pah!

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And at least 3 people inc yourself taking pictures 🙂

I always wish for Chris Akrigg's skills when car are asking to be ridden over.

[i]And at least 3 people inc yourself taking pictures[/i]

Not me - tis a still from the video camera 🙂

Saw a speed camera van parked like this the other day in Bramhall/Hazel grove complete with cyclists having to move out into traffic. Mad!

Mmmmm Badger. Nice top cap. 😀

Parked facing the wrong way too - something else that should be banned

It is. It's just not enforced very well.

It's just selfish and inconsiderate, when people park on cycle lanes or in such a way that impedes cyclists/makes it more dangerous.

Shame some of these cars sometimes get damaged, isn't it? 🙁

Brake levers down the side of every panel hard enough to make a dent.

Definitely needs comedy bike tyre tracks painted going over his car.

carry a can of white road paint and paint the lines underneath, on the top of the car.

I'd blame the road design personally

should have a section of solid line cycle lane in the road to help merge with the traffic

Cycle lanes eh? 90% are rubbish design, the 10% well designed ones are ignored by drivers. Hey ho.

On my commute I pretty much ignore the cycle lanes - they are crap.

Ride where its safe - maily on the pavement actually since they are empty and the road full of cars and lorrys.

Genius.

I'm going to employ the same logic when travelling on roads...I'll go where it's safest for me. On my bike I'm going on the pavement, and in my car I'm going in the cycle lane...actually sod that, I think I'll drive on the pavement too.

Of course that means I can't walk anywhere anymore as there will be no one beneath me in the vehicle food chain.

In my previous work place in Derby, we had a wall of shame of similar parking efforts we'd seen around the city. Our 'best' one was of a Police van parked in and completely blocking a segregated 2-way cycle lane (the one on Exeter Bridge if you know Derby).

bunnyhop it, mind the aerial tho.

Yep loads of bike lanes that actually might be quite useful are ruined because of daft stuff like this - ie having a bike lanes joining a road and letting cars park there.

I've heard that cycle lanes are often used as traffic calming measures rather than an effective way to get cyclists from A to B. There's at least one near me that reinforces that idea.

Selfish inconsiderate person shocker.

http://www.iparkedinabikelane.org/index.php

carry a can of white road paint and paint the lines underneath, on the top of the car.

There is a section of double yellows near where I used to live where people always park to use the shops. It used to block the traffic so badly that it sometimes would take me 20 to 30 mins extra to get home due to reducing the road to a single lane and traffic having to wait to pass the cars parked on double yellows.

Regularly saw the police queuing to get past and not doing anything.

So I started to.

I took to spraying two yellow lines down the side of any car parked on the double yellows with road mark spray.

Strangely enough people started to use the car park 20yds down the road...

Flat bars and bar ends? 😯

Are you sure this wasn't taken 10 years ago?

I hope you sent photo in to work to illustrate why you couldnt make it in today due to an unpassable obstruction

Trimix - Member

On my commute I pretty much ignore the cycle lanes - they are crap.

Ride where its safe - maily on the pavement actually since they are empty and the road full of cars and lorrys.

Er, your commute?

Trimix - Member
On my commute I pretty much ignore the cycle lanes - they are crap.

Ride where its safe - maily on the pavement actually since they are empty and the road full of cars and lorrys.

That's not a commute by bike though is it?!

It's only an advisory cycle lane, rather than mandatory, so he can drive in it, park in it, do whatever he likes in it. Plus no double-yellow lines to restrict parking, so hardly 'crime of the century'.

I'd worry about slightly bigger issues...like your bar ends and minging grips! 😉

To be fair its a Rover, I tend to give Rovers a pretty wide bearth anyway incase anything falls off it and scratches my bike.