[Closed] Latest Daily Mail cycling rant

This has been qite widely reported.
Its funny, I wouldn't know where to ride on this road. 😉
I make it my general policy to stay well outside of cyclelanes

she does require a wide berth though

Own the road with bombers....

Her fat arse is taking up more road than that car. Damn must type faster.

There are sections on the North Deeside Road in Aberdeen like that.

Actually narrower lane than the car width. Inspired.

was this a storey about the tw*t who bought a Rav 4?

Is that an approval or a disapproval markd?
I honestly think that roads would be better off if they did (as some have suggested on other sites), and put a big cycle symbol six feet wide across every road in the country.
If they have to put stupid cyclelanes in though, one this wide is actually a start. 🙄

Neither really. As a driver and a cyclist i find it weird that some towns do the extreme one way and others don't do anything at all.

I approve of any cycle/special user/bus lane systems though unless they are patently daft

These just look daft rather than being daft. They help massively in allowing people with appalling spatial awareness actually think about where they are riding/driving.

I've yet to see any cyclelane that advantages a confident entirely road-legal cyclist.
The rants over this particular lane relate to driver stupidity over what they're aloud to cross/not cross.
The picture is fairly bad too, as the cyclist is yielding way too much space to the car, making the layout look stupider than it actually is.

Robert Mugabe.

Cycle lane or not I'd say she's a bit too close to the kerb.

Interesting idea though. Get's people thinking and talking about the issue which is a good thing.

Actually narrower lane than the car width. Inspired.

The car has 11 feet of road space without crossing the centre line.

I'm not so sure about it being a valuable debate-starter, jonb, I think the OUTRAGE!(TM, Daily Mail) over this will convince the choobs in the local authority/ highway engineers to go back to the 30cm strip-of-paint design that they're so fond of.

Exactly, mike, a broken line means precisely ***k all where so-called cyclelanes are concerned.

The car has 11 feet of road space without crossing the centre line.

Yes i am aware of that. It's the visual weirdness that is the 'problem'.
Make sense?

They can obviously use the whole road side but the proportion afforded to each lane based on the type of vehicle is odd - the highway code does allow riders the courtesy of being the size of a car overtaking but this lane marking seems a little heavy handed almost.

Yes i am aware of that. It's the visual weirdness that is the 'problem'.
Make sense?

Totally.

I'd leave out the centre line and put a dotted bike lane on the other side too.

It could be argued though, that the space is being allocated according to the vulnerability of the road-user, and not merely the car width?
edit, I'm being a devils advocate here, I'm firmly in the cycle-facility hater demographic.

It could be indeed.

The trouble is... your average Daily Mail reader is the problem.

If it was a 'normal' car rather than a 4x4 in that pic, and the cyclist was riding where she should be, the lane widths would look fine.

The lines are not a physical barrier, merely a guide and reminder that bikes require space.

40mph is easily achievable

They're advisory markings. Drivers should learn their highway code before complaining.

Bah, my best is 38.8mph. I need to up-gear my singlespeed

Problem with that road is that its so busy, all you can usually do is keep up with the traffic. Now that cars on the other side are coming up in the middle of the road, there's less room to take the bends at speed.

Dunno when that photo was taken, 7am on a Sunday I guess.