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Originally Posted by Meta menardi  The bike lanes round here are quite odd. Wide flat and well marked where the road is wide flat and well marked, then they disappear at any difficult bits on the road, just where you think "I could do with a little refuge from the cars". |
Typical of what I mean when I say that many of these lanes are useless.
Many such ill-conceived lanes are provided because councils can obtain grants towards the cost, but the money doesn't stretch as far as would be needed to actually create a safer road layout.
Consequently they just put the cycle lanes wherever there is a bit more space on the road, (where they are least needed), and then they pat themselves on the back saying "look what good boys we are, we have provided "X" miles of cycle lanes".
(When in truth, "X" minus 99% will more than likely be the extent of the usefulness of those lanes
).
Regards,
Mike.