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Originally Posted by Graham
If the cycle lane is along the pavement (as it appears to be) and then goes across the road *before* the Give Way line, it means that every time the cyclists get to a junction they're going to have to stop and check for traffic turning left as well as coming out of the T junction or risk being hit.
Any cyclist will tell you that the worst think you can do is keep stopping and starting because that will knacker you out much more than keeping moving.
With the layout in the picture the cyclists can blend into the main road, pass the junction without necessarily needing to stop, then get back on the pavement (and away from the traffic) and thus keep their momentum.
It's actually a very sensible design.
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I looked at this closely, and I tend to agree with bmxbandit.
There is no cycle lane on the pavement.
There is a broken white line at the begining and end of the cycle lane across the junction.
It is to stop cars overtaking cyclists and then turning directly in front of them (I've seen many idiots do this for the sake of a 3 second delay!)
In the picture, cyclists travel on the road, enter the cycle lane and then exit the other end, hopefully without any cars cutting them up.
It's one of those "probably not really needed, probably a waste of council money, but we'll do it anyway" things, like the cycle lanes they put along the A32 in and out of Gosport, just before re-surfacing the road!
Here in Leighton Buzzard, they've put cycle lanes down each side of a road that is used by large lorries, problem is, they've not re-done the faded centre line, so you often find oncoming traffic in the middle of the road and they don't like moving over!