Cycle lane ends at bus stops then starts again

fletch

I was cycling down the Ongar Road the other day and noticed that at each bus stop the cycle lane ends and then restarts at the other side of the bus lane....
As a cyclist, are we supposed jump off the cycle path on to the road before the bus stop and then jump back up the kerb on to the cycle path after the bus stop?

Plastik

As a cyclist you are no longer required by law to cycle in cycle lanes. Just cycle on the road.

buffalo

fletch wrote: »

I was cycling down the Ongar Road the other day and noticed that at each bus stop the cycle lane ends and then restarts at the other side of the bus lane....
As a cyclist, are we supposed jump off the cycle path on to the road before the bus stop and then jump back up the kerb on to the cycle path after the bus stop?

Legally you would dismount or enter the road, yes. I'd write/email to Fingal CC (if that's the right area) and highlight the ridiculous setup. In the meantime I'd cycle on the road.

hardCopy

I think you're supposed to perform a flying dismount, ghostie the bike and then jump back on.

This is how the Ballycoolin Road works also. Fingal Co Co went on a binge of cycle tracks at the end of the boom years and they're mostly crap.

Nice surface and all but no thought into how they interact with junctions and most end deep inside a housing estate with no way to avoid the estate or they just end suddenly on main road or facing a fence.

Raam

Just sit there in a blubbering mess crying "What do I do? What do I do?"

Hungrycol

That's a yield sign at the end of the track so I would imagine you're required to yield to the peeps alighting the bus.

Happened to me a few weeks ago except the cycle lane continued through the bus stop. A bus was let peeps off the bus so I went around the outside of the bus rather than kamikaze the alighting passengers. A few mins later when the bus caught up with me the bus driver later pointed furiously to the cycle lane in what I can imagine as a signal for me to use it... Can't win sometimes.

doozerie

Do a Pat McQuaid on it, and barrel through the bus stop while keeping your eyes tightly closed. When questioned later just say that you didn't see any people there and since you never actually collided (solidly) with anyone that's proof positive that there were indeed no people there.