Adding stock-image children to a bike lane design

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rualexander

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Ah, sorry. Screen shot...

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To be fair that design I see in this country and I don't mind it, the far right lane is for right turn only so if I'm on a bike I'd want to be on the left of that.

Of course for it to be safe for a 3 year old I'd imagine segregation would be best?
 

mjr

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A lot of UK cycling advocates have gone onto it because we just don't learn and love right wing electric car company owners handing us our bottom.
 

doughnut

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Here's another one not far from yours @wiggydiggy. Left turn bike lane, left turn car lane, straight on bike lane, straight on car lane.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/nLm1sSC1egeQg5xZ7
Can get a bit spicy at rush hour, I tend to do a bit of arm waving and weave around a bit in the bike lane so that people think I'm about to come off and then they keep clear of me. Its worked every time so far.
 
Here's another one not far from yours @wiggydiggy. Left turn bike lane, left turn car lane, straight on bike lane, straight on car lane.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/nLm1sSC1egeQg5xZ7
Can get a bit spicy at rush hour, I tend to do a bit of arm waving and weave around a bit in the bike lane so that people think I'm about to come off and then they keep clear of me. Its worked every time so far.

Ah it isn't near me anymore, I used to live around there and but I still visit so I know the junction.

That one you have linked I don't like to be fair, unlike the one I have where all the traffic has to stop that left lane here is a 'flying' left so the traffic won't slow down. If you're going right I'd imagine it's squeaky bum time as you cross the flow!
 

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There are a couple like that around Filton/Patchway in South Glos. This one is on Gypsy Patch Lane on the approach to a left turn into the Rolls Royce car park. The cycle lane moves from the left side of the carriageway into the middle before the turning and then melds into a bus lane after the turning.
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One of the places where my head is on a swivel ^_^
 

mjr

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That one you have linked I don't like to be fair, unlike the one I have where all the traffic has to stop that left lane here is a 'flying' left so the traffic won't slow down. If you're going right I'd imagine it's squeaky bum time as you cross the flow!
That layout, with a straight-ahead bike lane and a left-turn mixed-traffic lane crossing each other, seems like a half-assed copy of an experimental layout in Cambridge on Hills Road at Cherry Hinton Road https://showmystreet.com/#v2mnz_2w4i_3z_o_-5k53 where probably some bean-counter refused to pay for the traffic islands needed to discourage drivers from ploughing straight through the bike lane.

Even so, I didn't think Cambridge built another one after that. Or at least I didn't until I found this almost-as-bad piece of shoot layout at the Science Park yesterday: https://showmystreet.com/#v3ifl_36y3_3m_o_-6k53 - to be fair, the lane starts centrally rather than swerving out from the kerb, but it's between lanes 2 and 3 when a cyclist may well be in lane 1 if they don't know the junction. At least it has an separated cycleway parallel behind the trees on the right, but it's not well signposted. A rare appearance of the "dual network problem"* in Cambridge hints that this is truly a crap cycle lane.

* - cyclists on the cycleway get narrow rough surfaces and few signs and often shouted at by walkers to use the road because the path is too busy, while cyclists on the carriageway get bonkers dangerous directions and often shouted at by drivers to get on the cycleway because the road is too busy. Almost no-one is happy with this except for the two extremes of would-rather-walk-than-ride-on-roads and loves-jousting-with-drivers.
 
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