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Originally Posted by Incognitas
In Gosport and it's boroughs there are very many cycle ways and off road cycle paths provided by the local taxpayers.
What gets up my nose as a driver is that there are always one or two twerps who INSIST on riding in the road when they have a beautiful newly laid cyclepath 5 metres to their left.WHY? It's usually the dayglo clad speed nitwit who is guilty of this.
I can't help thinking that if such cycleways are provided then it should be manditory for cyclists to use 'em.Otherwise why am I paying for the fecking things?
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I've not cycled in Grotspot (sorry, Gosport!
) but my experience of Portsmouth's cycle lanes has often been less than positive.
Many of them appear to be designed with the sole purpose of getting cyclists out of the way of car drivers, rather than being of any actualy *use* to cyclists.
Sharing a cycle path with pedestrians who wander around onto the cyclists half might be alright if you're a granny who pedals at 4mph, but I (and a lot of other riders) go a lot faster than that, so it's actually safer to ride with the traffic!
Often cycle lanes are blocked by car drivers who think they're an extra parking space, very often they're full of grit, broken glass and any other crud on the road because they're not cleaned sufficiently often.
Frequently car drivers don't even *acknowledge* the presence of the cycle lane and treat it as an additional piece of road to squeeze past traffic. They also stop at red lights in the purple "box" that is clearly marked for *cyclists* to use so they can turn across the line of traffic more safely because they don't have to dodge cars that come whizzing past them.
And then they have those stupid signs saying "Cyclists Dismount". Why not just put up one that says "Car drivers: get out and push!"
If you want to make cycle paths compulsory to use, make them bloody useful!