Minitram hazard!

Quoted message said:

"Bradford Council said the low-emission vehicle was narrow
enough [...] even share wide cycle lanes."

As the narrow-body minitram is 1.75m wide
(http://www.tdi.uk.com/minitram%20page.htm), you'd want some fairly
wide cycle lanes (that's about the same width as a family saloon)

On Warrington Cycle Campaign's website, there's a strong argument why
they oppose any cycle lanes less than 2m wide:
http://www.17beechroad.freeserve.co.uk/WarringtonCycleCampaign/policy/cycle-lanes.htm

if that gets munged, go to
http://www.warringtoncyclecampaign.co.uk/
and click on policy.

iakobski said:

On Warrington Cycle Campaign's website, there's a strong argument why
they oppose any cycle lanes less than 2m wide:
http://www.17beechroad.freeserve.co.uk/WarringtonCycleCampaign/policy/cycle-lanes.htm

Oh I don't know, this one in Oxford is equally useful to bicycles and
minitrams
http://www.17beechroad.freeserve.co.uk/WarringtonCycleCampaign/facility-of-the-month/October2005.htm
while this one in Leeds is specially designed for minitrams
http://www.17beechroad.freeserve.co.uk/WarringtonCycleCampaign/facility-of-the-month/August2005.htm

--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

Tony Raven <[email hidden]> wrote:
| Oh I don't know, this one in Oxford is equally useful to bicycles and
| minitrams
| http://www.17beechroad.freeserve.co.uk/WarringtonCycleCampaign/facility-of-the-month/October2005.htm

There's a story to those road markings, and I claim some small part in
causing them to come about. We have a lot of funny road art in Oxford.

Wolfson College has a sizeable cycle population, and a reasonable number
of journeys per day (into and out of town, about a mile or two). The
first phase of traffic calming near us (in Linton Road) consisted of some
rather abrupt, rectangular and sharp-sided tarmac road humps. They were
rather difficult to negotiate on a bicycle at anything more than walking
pace, and the one near the junftion with Northmoor Road is so placed as
to make it impossible for all but the most confident of balancers give
any sort of right-turn signal at anything like the right sort of distance
from the junction.

When the traffic calming was being extended to the only other road leading
to the College (the route through Bardwell Road and Chadlington Road) I
pointed out to the City Council engineer the deficiencies of the first
phase humps. The result was a set of smoother sinusoidal humps with very
shallow edges in the yard or so at either side of the road, to make for
an almost flat route for cycles, and markings to try to prevent traffic
from parking on these shallow shoulders.

Now, at the time, there were no parking restriction orders in force in the
area of Barwell and Linton Roads (although there now are) so the markings
at these humps were not yellow lines, but "mandatory cycle lanes". The
picture in October2005.htm is of a cycle lane marking at the approach to
a speed table in a junction on Bardwell Road. For some reason each of
the junction speed tables, although they don't have flat shoulders, also
have these markings at them. There are somewhere between six to ten of
these short "mandatory cycle lanes" on each side of Chadlington and
Bardwell Roads, occupying somewhere between a third and half of the road
length. The ones at the humps probably look funnier than the one in the
picture, but are also probably easier to explain. There is one where a
hump was put in and then take out again; the markings were reinstated
after the hump was removed.

Needless to say, it makes not a jot of difference to where the Dragon
School school-run 4x4 mothers park. They use the junctions for double
parking.