Why don't some cyclists use cycle lanes?

new cycle lane installed outside my house in recent years - there is no way to get out of it at the end of the 750m unless you go on to the footpath or get off the bike and walk through a tiny gap. It has deeply recessed rainwater shore covers (the grids type ones) every 100m and is currently badly in need of hedge trimming, but hey, it all counts in the council's xkm of countywide cycle lanes so they get their kudos for that. I sent the council photos of the debris on the cycle lane - they are still scheduling cleaning despite 5 reminders.

You might think that, but you'd be wrong... /waves at @07Lapierre

Heh. :-)

In fairness, I think I've seen you post average cycle speeds of 50kmh? Speeds that made me raise an eyebrow, anyway. So no bother to you, I'm sure, or anyone who is properly fit but yes, that's a hill, certainly to someone as unfit as I currently am, and certainly to some of the cyclists I see regularly there going reeeallly slowly up the hill.

It's a classic really. Got international attention as well.

Part of the rationale was to make cyclists give way to the drivers, I assume. They definitely have to yield in any interpretation of the rules, I think, based on all the yield triangles.

When commuting I generally use them (even the N11!) except for one spot that throws you out in an awful position having ceded priority.

I carry on why a cyclist might use the road - generally full of crap (my experience is far more likely to puncture in a cycle lane than on the road), shared use or de facto shared use which isn't appropriate at any kind of speed, the ceding of priority, parked cars, awful exit points, other road users taking the space before looking to see if anyone is coming...

The tl:dr is they're designed by people who don't cycle, who just want people who do out of the way of cars (and to tick boxes).

Well I can’t be arsed explaining it to you again… but if you didn’t understand the first time, I guess there’s no point.

Having seen some new bike lanes go in locally, I'm pretty sure the fellas putting in the footpaths are told anywhere a path goes, put in a section of bike lane too. Unfortunately, that seems to be as far as the planning

You're right, there's absolutely no point explaining to me why it's big or clever to huff and puff your bike slowly up a bus lane on a hill, with a 20-tonne double decker a metre behind your rear wheel the whole time, when there's an alternative a metre away, separated by a stone wall; nor why it's fine for adult cyclists to cycle on narrow city centre footpaths.

That's not a cycle lane. It's a footpath someone painted a bicycle on.

I lied! Any bus driver that can’t overtake you is a crap driver and shouldn’t be driving a bus. See your not the problem on the road, it’s crap bus drivers that drive up the arse of slow cyclists that need the kick up the arse.

Would you be happy with replacing the oul safety barriers in the middle of the M50 with a painted seperator?