Illegal parking in cycle lanes - name and shame

Bowling_4_Gold

Infact, having looked a bit closer, you can actually see the car in question on their driveway!

Jamopy

Happychappy wrote: »

very odd, each to their own, but clear off and leave the roads free for tax payers

You have to be joking...

Half of this thread has already been devoted to showing that drivers do not pay for roads and have no great right to use them than anyone else.

Jamopy

liam8282 wrote: »

I have checked and this is what the highway code says:

* never ride more than two abreast, and ride in single file on narrow or busy roads and when riding round bends.

So actually nothing at all to do with drivers getting the hump, just inconsiderate cyclists breaking the highway code.My experience is from cyclists riding along narrow country roads, either in groups or even just couples. No consideration for other road users at all, couples ride along chatting away to each other, totally oblivious to any other traffic. Groups ride along, as I said, thinking that they are on a stage of the tour de france.

Where there are bad car drivers that have been highlighted on this thread, there are bad cyclists too.

Perhaps it is the bad car drivers that have parked badly, taken their bike out of the back of the car and then continued the journey?

I've cycled around a lot over the years, and when i began i always made the effort to be as far over to the side of the road as i could be, and pull into lay bys, etc, whenever i could in case there were any cars or buses trapped behind me.

After being overtaken many times by buses that immediately pulled in, forcing me to slam on the brakes to avoid being trapped between the side of the bus and the kerb/barriers, and being overtaken by dozens of taxis that go past leaving barely a few inches between their cab and my handlebars, i changed my riding style to be a lot more defensive.

As a result of deciding my safety is more important than pleasing impatient drivers i now ride as far into the road as i feel i need to in order to be able to avoid car doors opening or pedestrians stepping out without looking, and cars (or especially buses) behind me that want to overtake can wait til i either stop or find a space where i'm happy to let them pass.

It probably upsets more people, but at the end of the day playing nicely was putting my life in danger.

Dave_C_2

sam1970 wrote: »

hmmm...here we go again..I pay £450 a year in road tax and then someone who uses the road for free will have the cheek to complain about where i park my car

Road tax was abolished in 1936. Every motorist (including me) pays VED, which is based on emissions. Even if cyclists were to pay VED it would be zero!

Have a look here.

Dave

alastairq

pays VED, which is based on emissions. Even if cyclists were to pay VED it would be zero!

you sure about that????

interstellaflyer

andygb wrote: »

You shouldn't have a gas guzzling car, I only pay just over £100 for mine and there are cars where you don't pay any, so your reply is not relevant.

Yep, I drive a car that will transport 5 adults in comfort and has a huge boot, last VED was £165 for 12 months, now gone up to £170, SAM1970 needs to look at the car he owns, as the reason he pays such high VED is down to the amount of bad emisions it puts into the air, the lower the emisions, the lower the VED, Bicycles don't produce emisions (unless the rider had a curry the night before) thus no VED, just like electric vehicles.

gadgetmind

liam8282 wrote: »

The only thing I think cyclists should have when using the roads, is insurance.

I have insurance twice over when cycling. It comes free with my house insurance and with a magazine I subscribe to. Yes, cycle insurance is that cheap. It's a momentum thing.

gadgetmind

Jamopy wrote: »

As a result of deciding my safety is more important than pleasing impatient drivers i now ride as far into the road as i feel i need to in order to be able to avoid car doors opening or pedestrians stepping out without looking, and cars (or especially buses) behind me that want to overtake can wait til i either stop or find a space where i'm happy to let them pass.

All road users should read "Cyclecraft", particularly those who *don't* cycle regularly.

Lum

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

It's a quiet suburban street. Practically no people park on the road there at night due to having driveways. The owner of the vehicle was actually at the house with the driveway in shot and the driveway was clear!

This view may be a bit clearer...

There are junctions to the right, but minor ones at that. Yes there are no yellow lines but it must say somewhere in the highway code not to block the entrance/exit of a cycle lane?

It's borderline whether that junction is a junction or a layby, the road marking isn't correct for a junction.

And, strictly, speaking they aren't blocking the entrance of the cycle lane as the cyclist should, in theory, be able to go around the parked vehicle and then through the chicane.

If the space isn't big enough then the council have screwed up and need to make that white line longer. Maybe they could correct the junction markings while they're at it?


I wonder if this is simply a case of the Land Rover driver simply forgot their fags and couldn't be bothered to use their driveway for the 30 seconds it would take to get them. Any info on how long they were parked like that for?

gadgetmind

liam8282 wrote: »

I have checked and this is what the highway code says:

* never ride more than two abreast, and ride in single file on narrow or busy roads and when riding round bends.

So actually nothing at all to do with drivers getting the hump, just inconsiderate cyclists breaking the highway code.My experience is from cyclists riding along narrow country roads, either in groups or even just couples. No consideration for other road users at all, couples ride along chatting away to each other, totally oblivious to any other traffic.

In what way are those cyclists *breaking* the highway code?

I regularly ride with groups of 20-30 novice riders and what I always stress is that width is not a great problem but we need to leave gaps every 6-10 riders for passing vehicles to drop in to.

As the vast majority of cyclists also drive (the opposite is *not* true!) they grasp this almost instantly.