Is this green strip a "cycle lane"?

Norman_Castle

Contact the council and ask. At present it looks like its intended to be a cycle lane but lacks road markings.

custardy

When you say 'turning left' do you mean changing lanes?

SouthLondonUser

Mercdriver wrote: »

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

which are very clearly marked as cycle lanes. There is the cycle logo on the road, and signs explaining when it's a cycle lane (from memory, 7am till 7pm). I regularly ride there with my motorcycle outside those hours - perfectly legal.

SouthLondonUser

custardy wrote: »

When you say 'turning left' do you mean changing lanes?

No. Maybe it's easier to explain looking at this map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4801647,-0.1082656,20.04z
I was on Foxley road, going towards Camberwell new road. At the junction between the two, I turned left onto Camberwell new road. There's a sign saying you can't turn right. I am not sure if this means right onto Camberwell new road only, or also means right onto Bolton crescent - I never go to Bolton crescent so I don't really care.

Robisere

This is a puzzle. Not listed in Highway Code Road Markings:

https://www.learnerdriving.com/learn-to-drive/highway-code/road-markings

I suspect that only the local Council can answer this.

stator

Mercdriver wrote: »

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

You're not understanding what I'm trying to say.
The blue paint is irrelevant, it's just a guide for the cyclist. The blue paint doesn't make it a cycle lane.
You said Pimlico, like this:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4853211,-0.1368341,3a,75y,58.58h,83.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stkbT_gB9bKWeaZUrtEb-Xg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
It's the white line and the signs that make it a cycle lane, not the blue paint.
On embankment I believe it's actually a separate carriageway!

facade

You want the Traffic signs Manual, chapter 5 (section 16) pages 95-101

Get it here

http://tsrgd.co.uk/documents/traffic-signs-manual

or here

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/traffic-signs-manual

(but I'd get it from the horse's mouth at tsrgd)

16.12
Cycle lanes and cycle reservoirs (see
paras 16.20 to 16.22) may be surfaced in coloured
material in order to demarcate them more
emphatically and to discourage encroachment by
motor vehicles. However, coloured surfacing has no
legal significance; it is the prescribed traffic signs and
road markings that establish the legal status of a
cycle lane.

(my bold)

rdr

Looks to me like an attempt to discourage "left hooking" (turning left into the cyclist you have just passed) by emphasising the left side of the lane where the cyclist may be. No legal status though.

elverson

Bit confused, was the cyclist also turning left from Foxley Road to Camberwell New Road?

SouthLondonUser

Yes. We were going the same way. He undertook me as I was turning left