It can't be the shortest

[Jeremy Parker]

The Times today has a picture of what it claims is the shortest bike
lane in Britain, in Alwoodley, Leeds.

It doesn't look like a lane to me, and it doesn't look like the
shortest to me.

It seems to be a rather peculiar cycle track. I guess that cycle
tracks have such a bad reputation nowadays that they have become the
facility that dare not speak its name.

Anyway I think there are several lanes and tracks short enough for
their length to be about the same as their width.

I've seen several web sites with pictures of silly facilities, for
example


<http://freespace.virgin.net/jpb.design/bristol.html>



<http://freespace.virgin.net/jpb.design/threeinchcyclero.html>



<http://www.nuttycyclist.co.uk/cycling/photos/ncn71-large.jpg>



<http://www.nuttycyclist.co.uk/cycling/farcilities-steps.htm>
Southend Mar 2005



<http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/morrisons/****%20Lanes/****%20Lanes.html>
Darlington Mar 2005



<http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/13q11/cycling/paths.html> - Amersham Mar
2005



<http://www.17beechroad.freeserve.co.uk/WarringtonCycleCampaign/facil
ity-of-the-month/index.htm>



<http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/cycling/farcilities.html>



<http://www.weirdcyclelanes.co.uk/>



<http://www.thebikezone.org.uk/thebikezone/confessions/coaco.html>



<http://radweg.mine.nu/>



http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~chu/radwege/radwege2004.php



http://www.mystrobl.de/ws/fahrrad/ansichten.htm



http://home.t-online.de/home/erika.ciesla/radima.html



General site on German sidepaths - just follow the
links, all will be revealed
http://radweg.mine.nu/

Site from Berlin where 75% of accidents involve the
side paths
http://www.adfc-berlin.de/radweg.cm#unfall

German site on the sidepath accident rate
http://bernd.sluka.de/Radfahren/Radwege.html

English translations covering history of German
sidepath program

http://eirbyte.com/gcc/info/vbriese_abstract.html

http://eirbyte.com/gcc/info/bhorn_abstract.html



Has anyone got any other examples, with or without pictures?

Jeremy Parker

 

[Danny Colyer]

Jeremy Parker wrote:
> <http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/cycling/farcilities.html>

Oops, there's another page I should have created a redirect for when I
moved it. Fixed now.

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

 

[archierob]

Will this qualify? In Cardiff there are very, very steep steps that
lead up from the road alongside the river Taff to 'The Highfields' -
the name says it all. At the bottom there is a NO CYCLING sign!

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> The Times today has a picture of what it claims is the shortest bike
> lane in Britain, in Alwoodley, Leeds.
>
> It doesn't look like a lane to me, and it doesn't look like the
> shortest to me.
>
> It seems to be a rather peculiar cycle track. I guess that cycle
> tracks have such a bad reputation nowadays that they have become the
> facility that dare not speak its name.
>
> Anyway I think there are several lanes and tracks short enough for
> their length to be about the same as their width.
>
> I've seen several web sites with pictures of silly facilities, for
> example
>
>
> <http://freespace.virgin.net/jpb.design/bristol.html>
>
>
>
> <http://freespace.virgin.net/jpb.design/threeinchcyclero.html>
>
>
>
> <http://www.nuttycyclist.co.uk/cycling/photos/ncn71-large.jpg>
>
>
>
> <http://www.nuttycyclist.co.uk/cycling/farcilities-steps.htm>
> Southend Mar 2005
>
>
>
> <http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/morrisons/****%20Lanes/****%20Lanes.html>
> Darlington Mar 2005
>
>
>
> <http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/13q11/cycling/paths.html> - Amersham Mar
> 2005
>
>
>
> <http://www.17beechroad.freeserve.co.uk/WarringtonCycleCampaign/facil
> ity-of-the-month/index.htm>
>
>
>
> <http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/cycling/farcilities.html>
>
>
>
> <http://www.weirdcyclelanes.co.uk/>
>
>
>
> <http://www.thebikezone.org.uk/thebikezone/confessions/coaco.html>
>
>
>
> <http://radweg.mine.nu/>
>
>
>
> http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~chu/radwege/radwege2004.php
>
>
>
> http://www.mystrobl.de/ws/fahrrad/ansichten.htm
>
>
>
> http://home.t-online.de/home/erika.ciesla/radima.html
>
>
>
> General site on German sidepaths - just follow the
> links, all will be revealed
> http://radweg.mine.nu/
>
> Site from Berlin where 75% of accidents involve the
> side paths
> http://www.adfc-berlin.de/radweg.cm#unfall
>
> German site on the sidepath accident rate
> http://bernd.sluka.de/Radfahren/Radwege.html
>
> English translations covering history of German
> sidepath program
>
> http://eirbyte.com/gcc/info/vbriese_abstract.html
>
> http://eirbyte.com/gcc/info/bhorn_abstract.html

http://kibo.org.uk/rambles.php?sp=20&id=78

--
Hywel http://kibo.org.uk/
I do not eat quiche.

 

[Patrick Herring]

|"Jeremy Parker" <[email protected]> wrote:

| The Times today has a picture of what it claims is the shortest bike
| lane in Britain, in Alwoodley, Leeds.
|
| It doesn't look like a lane to me, and it doesn't look like the
| shortest to me.
|
| It seems to be a rather peculiar cycle track. I guess that cycle
| tracks have such a bad reputation nowadays that they have become the
| facility that dare not speak its name.
|
| Anyway I think there are several lanes and tracks short enough for
| their length to be about the same as their width.

There's one such in Sheepscar in Leeds. It's as long as the width of a
central reservation. If you know the place it's on the way from the
university going towards Chapel Allerton & Roundhay. To be fair it's
clearly a continuation of a path either side of the junction but it
looks more like a cyclists' refuge.

--
Patrick Herring, http://www.anweald.co.uk/ph