Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Do you try and barge your way on?
Is this road closed?
- Thread starter mustang1
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Do you try and barge your way on?
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Force your way through, somehow
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Having walked past the junction in the OP on Friday, it didn't seem to be closed to quite a lot of cyclists.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I encoutered one with a wide trench across the full width, big enough drain on the left and high hedge on the right. Still no fence. I think it was a two mile backtrack to a three mile detour and I was on a lightweight bike, so I picked it up and took a running jump!
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
You can squeeze past those roadworks, a full closure would have big barriers, Heras fencing & need a TTRO. I've done road jobs with traffic management and the number of people who try to get through it is staggering. And if you watch some Youtube videos, you do get some farkwits trying to drive along segregated cycle paths only to find bollards at the end. Lack of car traffic and big white bikey symbols painted on the ground don't mean anything to some.....
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I must have been unlucky, given the general opinion that "you can pretty much always squeeze through". My experience is more that "You can often squeeze through, but be prepared to turn back". I can think of quite a few serious closures that were genuinely impenetrable.
Now, I often ride from London up to Warwickshire. And that means going through HS2 works country. And believe me, when those guys close a road they mean business. But not all serious closures were HS2. I remember one in a sunken lane in Kent where they'd driven poles into the banks either side of the road and over engineered the whole thing so not even a cat could get through.
Now, I often ride from London up to Warwickshire. And that means going through HS2 works country. And believe me, when those guys close a road they mean business. But not all serious closures were HS2. I remember one in a sunken lane in Kent where they'd driven poles into the banks either side of the road and over engineered the whole thing so not even a cat could get through.
Sterlo
Early Retirement Planning
- Location
- East Riding of Yorkshire
Not on a roadworks theme but further to @captain nemo1701 post, this new junction was installed near us about 3 years ago and you still see cars going down the cycle lane. 
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
Not on a roadworks theme but further to @captain nemo1701 post, this new junction was installed near us about 3 years ago and you still see cars going down the cycle lane.
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I can see why, the design is poor. TBH, I wouldn't put a cycle lane in there, just have a 'normal' junction. Its inviting people to keep going straight on, doesn't give the cyclists any great advantage.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I'd put an ANPR camera on the cycle lane and collect the idiot tax.
If that's not allowed, install some tough bollards. 😈
Got to get these unobservant drivers off the roads somehow and there seems no appetite for retesting.
Sterlo
Early Retirement Planning
- Location
- East Riding of Yorkshire
To be honest, there was never any need to change the junction, it wasn't an accident blackspot, I can only recall one idiot who ran into the garden wall behind the junction. It was fine before, there are a lot of big artics go around that junction to the local farms, they've now made it even harder to get around it.
