"Bizzare" bike lanes

Trevor_S said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4794198.stm

and...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37985849@N00/sets/1750945/

Trevor_S said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4794198.stm

Here's a few in Mackay

http://tinyurl.com/hdwrv
http://tinyurl.com/hl9zn
http://tinyurl.com/ektpx
http://tinyurl.com/f9pu9

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Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

quote='Peter McCallum'Trevor_S said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4794198.stm

Here's a few in Mackay

http://tinyurl.com/hdwrv
http://tinyurl.com/hl9zn
http://tinyurl.com/ektpx
http://tinyurl.com/f9pu9

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Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA[/QUOTE]
The funniest bike lanes I have seen are painted in blue with 'games lane' written on them. The lanes are full car width, and from what I've seen so far they were created to cope with extra bicycle traffic during the games (it was like peak hour coming home along Swanston st from the CBD last night at 11pm, dozens of cyclists). And unlike normal bike lanes, the cars are actually staying out. It's great!

Yeah, right. I was the only cyclist keeping out of them, even doing the
right thing and shuffling with the pedestrians on P Bridge.

HoHum.

Trevor_S said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4794198.stm

What is really distressing about that photograph is that the cabinet
shows absolutely no signs of bicycle collisions. Surely peeps can bong
it a few time (rubber/wooden mallet hint) and add a few discarded hard
rubbish bikes to give them incentive to "relocate it".

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Trevor_S said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4794198.stm

and...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37985849@N00/sets/1750945/

The good news about these roundabouts is that the "All bicycles" deviation
is not a legal bike lane/path. This was acknowledged to me by a council
officer in an email reply. The path and sign is just an attempt to provide
an escape route for kids and bicycle gumbies. The entirely legal way to ride
these roundabouts is straight on, proceeding as a normal vehicle.

From email:
The design undertaken for the road and in particular the roundabouts is
based upon Austroads (an association of Australian and New Zealand road
transport and traffic authorities) and VicRoads design guidelines. These
guidelines outline that roundabouts that have a separated cycle path,
located outside the circulating carriageway was the safest design in the
presence of large vehicle flows. Taking this into consideration, it
continues to say that experienced cyclists are comfortable riding in the
centre of the approach and circulating lane of single lane roundabouts.
Therefore for less experienced cyclists who are not comfortable travelling
through the roundabout may exit the roadway using the provided path and
re-enter the bike path after the intersection. However experienced cyclists,
which you describe yourself and travelling at a speed of 35km/h, would be
comfortable to continue using the roadway. Both of these described
situations are legal and therefore this is the reasoning behind the design.

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Cheers
Peter

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Peter Signorini said:

The good news about these roundabouts is that the "All bicycles" deviation
is not a legal bike lane/path. This was acknowledged to me by a council
officer in an email reply. The path and sign is just an attempt to provide
an escape route for kids and bicycle gumbies. The entirely legal way to ride
these roundabouts is straight on, proceeding as a normal vehicle.

The problem is the drivers who believe them, and then expect us to go that way.
Even if they aren't malicious about it, it's a risk I don't need.

One of my "favorites" I only ever saw when driving, I was far too busy evaluating on the bike.

Andre