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duncedunce
Joined: 28 Jun 2008
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 Posted Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:30 pm |
| OldSkoolKona wrote: | | ketka82 wrote: | Another one of my faves on the Hanworth Road in Hounslow.
Unfortunately, the Google street view picture seems to have been taken during the day when everyone is at work so doesn't fully display the lunacy. Usually the cars are parked up bumper to bumper on either side of the cycle path and more often than not they're parked like the Golf in the photo. All this means about a kilometre of door-zone dodging along a cycle path about a foot wide!!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=chiswick,+london&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.196147,57.084961&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Chiswick,+Greater+London,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.442479,-0.387354&spn=0.019045,0.055747&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.442579,-0.387275&panoid=qvyi_4ZYw08DYB7kw28nHg&cbp=12,193.11,,0,23.36 |
That one is just scary, how could anyone think that was safe. As ever, the car is king and the cyclists are just an afterthought - would be safer on the road. If anything the only reason for the cycle lane is to give space to get out of your car, unbelievable.  |
Similar doorzone lane for half a mile up Eltham Hill in SE London:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.196147,57.084961&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.45228,0.042842&panoid=LqeK72qqvCOeWGBdv4QQuQ&cbp=12,109.92,,0,24.6&hq=&ll=51.452242,0.043001&spn=0.013318,0.027595&z=15
Nice wiggles in and out for the junction in the distance, too (although no such wiggle on the previous junction). Fun in the dark, with buses coming past up the hill
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Mr_Cellophane
Joined: 14 Mar 2008
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Posted Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:16 pm |
| duncedunce wrote: |
Similar doorzone lane for half a mile up Eltham Hill in SE London:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.196147,57.084961&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.45228,0.042842&panoid=LqeK72qqvCOeWGBdv4QQuQ&cbp=12,109.92,,0,24.6&hq=&ll=51.452242,0.043001&spn=0.013318,0.027595&z=15
Nice wiggles in and out for the junction in the distance, too (although no such wiggle on the previous junction). Fun in the dark, with buses coming past up the hill |
How that should be done (Barking and Dagenham)
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.196147,57.084961&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.551993,0.111236&panoid=rI-gESuH2h1NRrIFKWgmTw&cbp=12,97.18,,0,8.22&hq=&ll=51.551993,0.111408&spn=0,359.972405&z=15
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OldSkoolKona
Joined: 29 Aug 2008
Posts: 304
Location: Richmond, London
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roger merriman
Joined: 01 Jan 2008
Posts: 1891
Location: Londonish
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 11:30 am |
| Attica wrote: |
Show off!
but yes, those ruddy trees, oddly enough I've never used that bike path |
yes there lovely, equally hard to miss if young and drunk I found, when I was both of the above!
my fav in london town I've found is thishttp://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.402753,-0.206219&spn=0,359.983553&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.402754,-0.206368&panoid=GDymsMyZo4TCabU82o5RGg&cbp=12,282.01,,0,27.5
the cycle path is steeply ramped so unless very slow would be good place to pratice one's drop offs....
silly tash time http://uk.movember.com/mospace/204583 |
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OldSkoolKona
Joined: 29 Aug 2008
Posts: 304
Location: Richmond, London
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 1:00 pm |
Really liked this comment from the original blog, hits the nail on the head about cycle lanes:
| Quote: | There are things that look dangerous and are (base jumping)
Things that look dangerous and aren't (fairground rides)
Things that look safe and are (drinking tea and listening to radio 4)
Things that look safe and aren't. (Cycle lanes) |
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BentMikey
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
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secretdancer
Joined: 02 Nov 2009
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 2:27 pm |
Long time lurker... thought it was about time I got involved!
Believe it or not this is the starting post for a joint footpath/cycle lane on park of my route. Runs to the right of the signpost. Trees and usual furniture may be a nuisance but a few yards down the lane it turns into this!
Same pavement/cycle lane/car park which comes with the added bonus of a wheelie bin slalom on Mondays!
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MonkeyMonster
Joined: 10 Aug 2009
Posts: 882
Location: Olympia--> SCR Racetrack <-- Angel
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Aidy
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Posts: 669
Location: London/Herts
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 2:45 pm |
The one that always gets me is the one outside the Asda in Edmonton.
Are you supposed to charge up it and fly through the pedestrians, or what?
I'll try and get a picture of it at some stage - annoyingly it looks to have been put in place after the streetview picture.
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biondino
Joined: 11 May 2008
Posts: 5153
Location: Putney, SW London
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 3:25 pm |
Here's a path many may recognise - the road in front (where the van's going) is the Marc Bolan Death Bridge on Queen's Ride, Putney/Barnes.
The longer of the two bike lanes makes a certain amount of sense, as it misses out a mini-roundabout. The shorter, though, is useless to anyone coming from the viewer's perspective, as they'll have already made a very simple left turn onto a very quiet private road.
Coming from the mini-roundabout, though, you have to stop immediately, wedge yourself into the cycle box in the middle of the road, before joining a, what, 5 yard lane (it expires where the bike is painted, far left) before joining the cul-de-sac that almost no-one uses, especially as it's all gravelled and pot-holed to buggery.
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OldSkoolKona
Joined: 29 Aug 2008
Posts: 304
Location: Richmond, London
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 8:00 pm |
| BentMikey wrote: | | Ah, good signature, that! |
I see you use it in 'the other place' 
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Always Tyred
Joined: 27 Dec 2007
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:14 pm |
There's a perfect crescent shaped cycle lane about 15 feet long in Berwick on Tweed somewhere, going from the side of a road to the side of the same road about 10 feet further on. Anyone know it?
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