Cycling Lanes

butbut

I'm sure these have been discussed to death here but I'm a little perplexed about the lovely cycle lane outside my estate. Traditionally there was parking there but someone somewhere obviously realised that this residential area in the city centre has a large amount of cyclists and so the parking was removed and instead a lovely wide cycle lane(marginally smaller then the parking space) was put in complete with pictures of cyclists and signs saying cycle lanes. However the next to said signs remained the lovely big P in a read circle. Naturally people continued to park here and it is a popular area to park as it is the closest point to the city centre while remaining outside the parking disk area. Eventaully the Big P was taken down after complaints to the city council, but parking persists, Complaints are made regularly but never a parking warden in sight(a surprising number of my neighbours cycle everyday) has anyone had any success in the area of reporting on this matter?

TinyExplosions

Does the cycle lane have a solid, or broken white line?

If it's broken, it's perfectly legal to park in it, if it's solid it's not.

butbut

Solid. I must say I didnt realise that about a broken line though.

kenmc

Just a thought. What would happen if you were walking home from the hardware store with a load of carpet tacks and dropped some of them and didn't manage to find them all again and then the cars drove over them and got punctures when leaving. And if you were really unlucky and it happened every time you went to the hardware store for a week or two? If I was parking there and that happened I'd probably have to find somewhere else to park.

cdaly_

TinyExplosions wrote: »

Does the cycle lane have a solid, or broken white line?

If it's broken, it's perfectly legal to park in it, if it's solid it's not.

If it's a broken line, there should be hours of operation posted. It is illegal to park in it during those hours. There is an exception of 30 mins for a goods vehicle being unloaded.

The big difference between broken and solid lines is that motorised traffic may not enter the cycle lane marked by a solid line while it may enter a broken line lane.

cdaly_

kenmc wrote: »

Just a thought. What would happen if you were walking home from the hardware store with a load of carpet tacks and dropped some of them and didn't manage to find them all again and then the cars drove over them and got punctures when leaving. And if you were really unlucky and it happened every time you went to the hardware store for a week or two? If I was parking there and that happened I'd probably have to find somewhere else to park.

I'd say you'd end up with a lot of punctured bikes unless you accidentally dropped them really really carefully...