Great new cycle lane opened near me

[Al]

Can't wait to beat the rush hour traffic
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[zico]

Unbelievable. The thing is that in order to get that made someone had to think about, suggest it and then it was approved by a chain of other people. At no point did anyone say "no, this is stupid." Ridiculous.
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[bamt]

It does actually make some sort of sense. It's to give you a safe place to stop whilst waiting for a gap in traffic so you can cross to the central reservation, then wait there whilst waiting for a gap so you can cross the other side - to where there is presumably a cycle path heading towards Great Yarmouth.

If you aren't a strong/confident cyclist who is willing to get into the right hand land of the approach to that roundabout and ride around at normal traffic speeds with the flow in the right hand lane around that roundabout (to avoid being left hooked) then it'll be useful.

Personally I wouldn't use it, I'd stick to the road.

https://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-month/give-cyclists-space.png

[Al]

You're right that is what it's intended for, but to follow that cycle path in the direction of Great Yarmouth you have to cross the dual carriageway a further 5 times just to get across the junction and series of roundabouts.
The junction has cost 21 million pounds to build and was done from scratch pretty much. Cycling routes were always part of the plan so they could have done all manner of bridges/underpasses yet all they've done is paint a few lines in stupid places.
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[Ste]

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[spnorm]

I drove past some of the new Leeds - Bradford "Cycle Super Highway" yesterday and it looks like pedestrian carnage waiting to happen. A lot of it is sharing footpaths or looks like additions to the footpaths (built about 1.5 metres into the road) and they pass within inches of the bus shelters/stops. You're also supposed to give way everytime you come to one of the dozens of road junctions, so it'll be stop/start constantly.

I for one wouldn't use it. It's only useful for people who plod along at walking pace, but mixing pedestrians and 20mph pushbikes is going to end in tears

[bamt]

And then the fit cyclists who can cruise along at 20-25 mph on the flat will get abuse from motorists for not using that farcility that was built for them at huge expense, whilst pedestrians won't honour the white line separating the cycle lane from the footpath and hurl abuse at cyclists for riding their bikes on the pavement. Lose, lose for cyclists - except that it may encourage some people who would otherwise have been too scared to try riding.

[Fiona84]

[G]

Last few weekends I've done a route which could do with one of those - turning right across a dual lane dual carriageway. Speed has just gone down to 50mph from delimited.
Times I've been it's not been TOO busy, but an extra place to 'line up' out of the way if needed could be useful.
Luckily in that case I do have a bit of leeway as there's a teeny strip of 'hard shoulder' as such to the left of the white line - as opposed to the pictured case where you can't really safely pull over without going up the kerb.

[Robbeh]

Haha just reading through and thought I recognized that cycle path.

I drive past it daily and always thought it was a stupid design. But because it's quite a hilly road I just presumed it was a rest area for cyclists.