Comments on: Vehicular Cycling

By: paul

paul — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:11:08 +0000

No idea about the rest of the world or even the UK but in my home town of Leeds the cycle lanes cause more problems than they solve. Many are shared with pedestrians and rejoin the “main carriageway” with a near impossible 90 degree bend. Added to this this type of cycle lane tends to a minefield of debris and rubbish left behind my the wonderful British public. My regular route to work is not so bad. The first 3 miles has a nice wide cycle lane and the car ” lane” has traffic calming measures. However this near perfect layout fails at its end. The cycle lane finishes at the same point as the speed bumps. To add to this there is a slip road onto the M621 some 30 yards beyond. If I were to be in the cycle lane at this point , and I have seen this happen numerous times, a car would accelerate to overtake me only to brake sharply to turn left feet away from my front wheel to join the motorway. I consider myself a competent cyclist and always feel more confident and safer positioning my self as if I was driving a small car. Should add this includes NOT filtering between cars at traffic lights/ junctions. Preferring to sit patiently in the Que and wait my turn.

By: tejvan

tejvan — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:53:21 +0000

one of the cycle lanes has junctions every 50 m. So if you cycle you are permanently stopping to give way to cars turning left and right. I feel safer on the road. Those wide lanes look nice!

By: Koen

Koen — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:56:26 +0000

Why are your pictures of cycles lanes examples of bad infrastructure? Why are the cyclists who use them called ‘slow cyclists’? Bad surfaces, way too narrow, not enough separation, dangerous, for if you fall, you fall onto the road. Have you read this http://goo.gl/CdtkO ? It could be so much better, for cyclists, for drivers, and even for velomobiles and racing cyclists!

By: tejvan

tejvan — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:54:56 +0000

BTW: this article written in BRI A&E dept, with nothing more than stale cheese sandwich for sustenance. If article is not up to usual standard I’m getting my excuses in early.