Is this green strip a "cycle lane"?

SouthLondonUser

@rdr, I didn't pass the cyclist at the junction - he passed me, well, he undertook me. I passed him on the straight stretch of Camberwell New Road

Retrogamer

What speed were you both doing when he passed you on the left?
At least you knew you check your mirror first. A lot of people don't bother.

SouthLondonUser

The traffic light had just turned green. The speed limit is 20 mph. I must have been going between 15 and 20mph. I was still in first gear with my hand on the clutch. Like I said, I was going slow - the pushbike was faster than me! I am so used to idiots on pushbikes trying to undertake me that I always try to stay on the left when turning left, so as not to leave room for these idiots to undertake me, even though this is the wrong position for a motorcycle (but that's irrelevant at slow city speeds).

rdr

SouthLondonUser wrote: »

@rdr, I didn't pass the cyclist at the junction - he passed me, well, he undertook me. I passed him on the straight stretch of Camberwell New Road

I was commenting on the reason for the paint rather than your specific incident.

Teapot55

rdr wrote: »

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.

The council have just put similar to this where I live on one of the main roads known for collisions with bicycles at junctions. Wide green strips almost a car-width and about the length of three cars at many of the junctions. These, however do have dotted lines along the edges & pictures of a bicycle on them. As we all know, it is legal for vehicles other than bicycles to drive in them because the lines are only dotted, but the idea is to emphasise, as rdr says, the possible presence of cycles.

It will be interesting to see in a few years if the incidence of collisions involving cyclists has decreased on this road.

peter_the_piper

Looks like the strip they put at traffic lights for cyclists so my guess would be its there so that cycles can ride straight down to the bus lane without having to manouvre around the bonnets of cars poking out cos they know there's a bus lane coming to the left.