Is this green strip a "cycle lane"?

SouthLondonUser

Is the green strip in this photo a “cycle lane”, or does it somehow indicate that that space should be occupied by bycicles only?
https://goo.gl/maps/A5cwsepJo3u

If yes, where is it in the highway code? I couldn’t find it anywhere.
If not, is it even legal to paint a green strip like this? Streetview shows another similar strip at the previous junction just a few yards back: https://goo.gl/maps/ZKYKEXpSRHJ2

While on my motorcycle, I had an argument with a cyclist, who undertook me while I was turning left to enter the bus lane ahead (which is open to motorcycles). The roads were very busy, and I was going very slowly (as proven by the fact that a pushbike managed to undertake me). I had seen the cyclist in my mirror, but would have never imagined he’d undertake me at a bend. I braked, honked, and at the next traffic light pointed out that it is quite stupid to undertake a motorcycle like that; he told me I should not have been on the green strip as it’s a “cycle lane”.

Note that any vehicle (regardless of the number of wheels) coming from the left, as I was, must cross the green strip – there is simply no way to avoid it. The two metres or so of green stro before the pedestrian crossing can be avoided, but, coming from the left, there is no way to avoid all of the green stripe.

PS Even if he’s right, undertaking like that is still stupid because it is more dangerous for him than for me. I speak from direct experience: as a motorcyclist I am a vulnerable road user myself; if I see, say, a truck in a bus lane that’s open to motorcycles but not to trucks, I stay back, I don’t undertake while the guy is turning left arguing that he shouldn’t have been there!

PPS It's in London. The council is Southwark.

facade

Looks like an anti-skid surface dressing applied to me.
A cycle lane on the road has either
a dashed white border line, meaning cars can veer into it or just be abandoned in it:D = an advisory cycle lane
a solid white border line meaning cars cannot use it.

You should always watch out for people who "have the right of way" and "know the Highway Code" pulling dangerous stunts like trying to undertake you when you are clearly signalling your turn.

Round here it is Bus Lanes. The buses fly along the bus lanes at 30mph, and cars have to cross their path to turn left. I'm surprised I don't see more collisions...

stator

It's not a cycle lane because there are no markings. It's just a piece of green road surface.

Strider590

The cycle super highway in London is just magic blue paint.

Regardless of the markings, undertaking a vehicle that is indicating left, is just plain old stupid. I'm very pro-cyclist, but some people are just idiots.

Car_54

Strider590 wrote: »

The cycle super highway in London is just magic blue paint.

Regardless of the markings, undertaking a vehicle that is indicating left, is just plain old stupid. I'm very pro-cyclist, but some people are just idiots.

This may well be the first time we've agreed.;)

d0nkeyk0ng

Around here, cycle lanes have a dashed or solid white line and have a cycle symbol painted on them. There should also be start and ends of cycle lanes at junctions (unless it follows the road turn). I've seen cycle lanes across the road at pedestrian crossings but not at junctions.

SouthLondonUser

I wonder where he got that from. If someone is spreading the false information that those small strips are reserved for pushbikes only, he's doing a great disservice to the cycling community!

Twopints

a little way further along that road is this: Cycle lane?

and on the other side of the same road, this: Cycle lane?

Car_54

Unless I'm missing something obvious, one is a bus lane (which cylists are allowed to use) and the other is a cycle lane, alhough I couldn't see the signs at the start because of the vehicles.

Is there some doubt?

stator

Strider590 wrote: »

The cycle super highway in London is just magic blue paint.

That's on the pavement though, isn't it?
If it was on a road it would have a solid or dashed line marking the lane off

Mercdriver

stator wrote: »

That's on the pavement though, isn't it?
If it was on a road it would have a solid or dashed line marking the lane off

No there are whole palletfull loads of blue paint all along Embankment in Victoria and Pimlico...