Adding stock-image children to a bike lane design

[wiggydiggy]

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.

The first one is not bad, at least it tries to offer some protection to cyclists. The second one though is awful, though I'm not sure what a good solution should look like.

 

[mjr]

The first one is not bad, at least it tries to offer some protection to cyclists. The second one though is awful, though I'm not sure what a good solution should look like.

Orbital priority cycleways and footways around the roundabout and a CYCLOPS layout for the traffic lights, I suspect.

 

[Jenkins]

There's also another nasty one in Cambridge on the A1134/A1303 (Newmarket Road) heading out towards the Park & Ride. The first part as you approach the Barnwell Road roundabout moves the cyclist heading straight on to the middle of the road: https://maps.app.goo.gl/TcfJ7kaswnHKcjzZ6 but you've got to hope that drivers know the road layout as shortly after the roundabout the inside 'straight on' lane becomes a busy left turn for Fen Ditton & Waterbeach and the central cycle lane is appalingly surfaced https://maps.app.goo.gl/8yHrgpkjkynTpZXc7

 

[mjr]

There's also another nasty one in Cambridge on the A1134/A1303 (Newmarket Road) heading out towards the Park & Ride. The first part as you approach the Barnwell Road roundabout moves the cyclist heading straight on to the middle of the road: https://maps.app.goo.gl/TcfJ7kaswnHKcjzZ6 but you've got to hope that drivers know the road layout as shortly after the roundabout the inside 'straight on' lane becomes a busy left turn for Fen Ditton & Waterbeach and the central cycle lane is appalingly surfaced https://maps.app.goo.gl/8yHrgpkjkynTpZXc7

OMG the middle-of-road cycle lane even vanishes for a bit in between the two junctions: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.2...try=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

That's an impressively epic fail, which seems to be from before 2008. The path on the north side between the two junctions (and further east) is a foot/cycleway, which means this is another place with the "dual network problem" suggesting that the road layout has gone badly wrong.