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No entry except cycles, except without the "except cycles" plates. Just road markings indicate the cycle contraflow. Cyclists must turn right at second junction as Ardconnel Terrace on left is proper one-way. See also #35218
No entry except cycles, except without the "except cycles" plates. Just road markings indicate the cycle contraflow. See also #35219
Stanborough Park looking west showing the contraflow cycle path along the park entrance slip road. This contraflow path is a crucial link in the Hatfield to Welwyn Garden City cycle path which also connects to Stanborough School.
No video with this. I've stopped my car to take the picture (with no traffic behind me). Needless to say, but completely illegal parking which the police are keen to prosecute with repeated evidence. The simple rule is Highway Code Ru ... [more]
No video with this. I've stopped my car to take the picture (with no traffic behind me). Needless to say, but completely illegal parking which the police are keen to prosecute with repeated evidence. The simple rule is Highway Code Ru ... [more]
New contra-flow scheme, Norfolk Park Rd. We thought they were going to go for a more minimalist "except cyclists" approach but they've gone for plenty of engineering!
Contraflow cycle lane on Church Road, Linslade. Forms part of the route connecting the town centre in Leighton Buzzard to the railway station. The rest of the contraflow is unmarked on the road but is indicated by a traffic sign.
See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwL-YgqTh08 Another example of the issues of traffic flow along Bateman Street. Coming to the end of Eligius Passage, I need to turn into Bateman Street. Notice the parked car directly oppos ... [more]
See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzOjP_N-15k Stopping or Parking in Cycle Lanes Highway Code Rule 240 (backed up in law) http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860 You MUST NOT stop or park on a tr ... [more]
This section of Cycle Superhighway CS3 is a little disorienting - its a contra flow cyclelane on the wrong side of the road. Presumably it was done like this because of the parked cars on the residential side of this street. So this is inno ... [more]
See "video" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EvLQo0v23Q It's illegal, causes injury and death. And there's space nearby elsewhere. Why do some car drivers do this, blind ot the issues they cause? http://radwagon.blogspot.com/2011/06 ... [more]
See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDO75z_o20o It's illegal, causes injury and death. And there's space nearby elsewhere. Why do some car drivers do this, blind ot the issues they cause?
No video! Lorry illegally blocking contraflow cyclelane. See more at http://radwagon.blogspot.com/2011/06/bateman-street.html
No video! Illegal blocking of the contraflow cyclepath. See more at http://radwagon.blogspot.com/2011/06/bateman-street.html
See full video of Bateman Street at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6fQcSLpGs This is what happens at school turnout in Bateman Street. In some ways it's a good example of what happens when so much traffic gets together and shares ro ... [more]
See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTuHMjyhwgk An interesting example of driving in Bateman Street. I rapidly catch up with this taxi as it accelerates hard between the speed bumps followed by sharply braking. Not something ... [more]
Rather a complex cycleway arrangement here, and some good cycle parking. Cyclists wanting to come straight on to here, from the road opposite, have to make their way right over to their right, cross in the narrow section, and return to t ... [more]
Contraflow cycle lane on Argyle Street in Glasgow City Centre. Includes cycle traffic signals at junction with Union Street/Jamaica Street.
Contraflow cycletrack on George V Bridge in Glasgow City Centre. Leads from NCN 75 to Clyde Place, but cyclists just have to rejoin the busy road network at the end of it. Sign is the wrong way round.
Overranking taxis on St Andrews Street in Cambridge force buses right over to the other side of the road bringing them into conflict with cyclists travelling the other way.
West Princes St, Glasgow. The council have kindly installed new layouts on West Princes St, making it one way. Here we see the cycle lane that has been generously provided to exempt cyclists from the one way system. The idea is to cycle ... [more]
The Shakespeare Street contraflow cycle track has been replaced by a false one-way street at the new Tesco goods exit. Shakespeare Street is part of a link route between the River Kelvin cycleway and the Forth & Clyde Canal.
Cycle contra-flow. A cycle tour of Edinburgh at the CycleNation / CTC conference, November 2010.
Some very stupid street furniture obstructing the brand new cycle lanes at the top of Rye Lane, Peckham. This is part of the London Cycle Network route 22.
Supposedly unlawful "Except cycles" plate. Copied from http://www.panoramio.com/photo/18877536 with permission.
Contraflow on Elmfield. Exciting! Unfortunately drivers are not (made) aware of the arrangement and conflict arises regularly... very narrow cycle lane too.
W582 EOO, a white Ford Transit van, was parked in the mandatory cycle lane on Emmanuel Street, Cambridge.
R059 EJG, a white Volkswagen van, was parked in the mandatory cycle lane in Downing Street, Cambridge.
Cycle contraflow completely blocked by MACC Building Solutions van. Occupants, in back of van, said they had to block the cycle lane because there was nowhere else to park.
W582 EOO unlawfully parked on Emmanuel Street, during the morning peak period. Note that the Royal Mail van in the distance (well; not that far, and that's my point) is parked in the loading bay. There is more than one van's length avaliabl ... [more]
Yet another Carlsberg lorry parked on the contra-flow mandatory cycle lane, forcing cyclists into head-on confrontation with oncoming traffic. Registration YJ08 AHL.
Unknown van using up most of the contraflow on Downing Street; couldn't be bothered to get his registration—there's really no point; nothing'll ever get done about it.
Yet another white van on Bateman Street scrupulously keeping the road clear for motor vehicles while blocking the contraflow cycle lane.
Panton Street is one way, but a contraflow would help many school children and residents, and there is space.
Private hire vehicle CU05 MWM with windscreen plate number 409, parked (engine off) in contraflow cycle lane. Took this picture, then went over to his window. Me: "Are you aware that you're illegally parked?" Him: "Mate, mate: move on." ... [more]
An extremely underexposed shot of AV53 ZBX parked illegally in the contraflow cycle lane. See #20201 for the wider shot.
Campaigners gather (with David Howarth MP) at Mawson Road to celebrate the overcoming of a DfT's bureaucrat's disallowance of 'No Entry Except Cycles' signs.
Car going the wrong way down Mawson Road after passing the confusing "low flying motorbike" sign, soon to be changed to a no-entry except cycles sign.
Campaigners (with David Howarth MP) celebrating the introduction of Except Cycles panels beneath No-Entry signs - due to be implemented soon here on Mawson Road.
Montague Place facing west. Shows contraflow cycle lane. Also shows north side of Bedford Square where westbound cycling is not currently permitted.
On Bloomsbury Way west of Bury Place, indicates that you can cycle contraflow on Bury Place which is on LCN+ Route 6
Once again, a St Andrews Bureau property management company van blocking the contraflow cycle lane outside their properties on Bateman Street.
New contraflow installed into Mackenzie Road, thanks to the campaigning efforts of Cambridge Cycling Campaign, and no thanks to certain local Councillors. Location: Cambridge City (England, United Kingdom)
New contraflow installed into Mackenzie Road, thanks to the campaigning efforts of Cambridge Cycling Campaign, and no thanks to certain local Councillors. Location: Cambridge City (England, United Kingdom)
Saint Andrews Bureau truck blocking the contraflow cycle lane and footway on Bateman Street again - as a local property management firm they really should know better.
What's the point of a non-mandatory contraflow cycle lane? - cars can legally stop and force cycles into the path of oncoming traffic.
Bus stands in St Andrews Street, just around the corner from the main "bus station" in Emmanuel Street. General traffic is restricted here by the flying motorbike sign. The street is one way to motor traffic, 2 way to cycling - note the ... [more]
Cambridge's town centre "bus station" is Emmanuel Street, with stands overflowing into neighbouring streets and a bus garage on the corner with Parkside. It is now one way for motor traffic, with a contraflow lane to maintain 2 way cycle ... [more]
Cambridge's town centre "bus station" is Emmanuel Street, with stands overflowing into neighbouring streets and a bus garage on the corner with Parkside. It is now one way for motor traffic, with a contraflow lane to maintain 2 way cycle ... [more]
Cambridge's town centre "bus station" is Emmanuel Street, with stands overflowing into neighbouring streets and a bus garage on the corner with Parkside. It is now one way for motor traffic, with a contraflow lane to maintain 2 way cycle ... [more]
Police van blocks contraflow cycle lane on Downing St. whilst officers attend Revolution Bar. Time 09:15
The contraflow cycle lane currently ends here, and it is unclear whether to use the footway or the road here.
Wonderful - a warning sign for the car traffic which isn't being impeded, but nothing at all for cycle traffic in the contraflow lane which has actually been totally blocked.
Cycle contraflow opposite Alexandra Palace station (pedestrian crossing and bridge to the right)
Apex Scaffolding truck parked in Mandatory Cycle Lane - but would it be any safer if they parked on the other side and carried the poles across??
Cyclist pushing bike along footway, possibly due to St Andrews Bureau vans parked illegally in the Mandatory Cycle Lane. As a local property management firm they really should know better. One of their vans was there again four days later.
VK07 MVC blocking BOTH cycle lanes at the same time - right in front of Grand Arcade cycle shop!
Two white vans blocking the contraflow cycle lane on Bateman Street - right by the traffic island.
Car waiting in the MCL contra flow lane on Emmanuel Street. Driver of the car AN08 XYA is away from the car in a shop.
One more van (KE55 JTD) using orange flashing lights to make parking in the cycle lane outside Revolution legal. Magic!
Totally thoughtless (and illegal) blocking of the Downing Street contraflow by Area Scaffolding van, registration P214 LLX. See also #15044, which shows the same vehicle there several hours earlier.
Totally thoughtless (and illegal) blocking of the Downing Street contraflow by Area Scaffolding van, registration P214 LLX. See also #15045.
Dangerous and illegal parking is very common. Turning into the contraflow cycle lane on Mawson Road leaves the cyclist stuck between oncoming cars on Mill Road and Mawson Road
Bike lane is now a convenient parking bay for taxis. Parking is not enforced since the red tarmac obscures the double yellow lines. Police can't be bothered to enforce the statutory bike lane.
Police car parked in the cycle lane, totally unnecessarily. Not obviously an emergency situation.
Taxis parked on the cycle contraflow on Mawson Road. The blue one was still there two hours later.
With a little care (less) parking it's possible to block the pavement and the cycle lane. Licensed taxi 148 blocks mandatory cycle lane and pavement outside Revolution in Downing Street, Cambridge
Vehicles K501NCR and T989LHK illegally and inconsiderately parked on the Bateman Street contraflow cycle lane.
Anroe Electrical Lighting van EF54PPX parked on double yellow lines and blocking cycle path, north side of end of Glisson Rd, where it meets Hills Rd, just outside Cambridge Coffee Company shop.