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Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 10 Jul 2014, 9:56pm
by ArMoRothair
grani wrote:Like this one I encountered yesterday?
We need more Dan MacAskill types who can simply ride over cars like that.
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 8:59pm
by PRL
Armadillos protecting the cycle lane would seem a way of discouraging parking.
http://www.cyclehoop.com/product/cycle-lane-safety/armadillos/Has anyone had experience ?
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 9:02pm
by Mark1978
Something which is very easy to drive over for parking yet would easily cause a nasty crash for a cyclist. Genius.
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 9:16pm
by Pete Owens
The simple solution is simply to remove the cycle lane.
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 11 Jul 2014, 9:28pm
by gaz
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Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 10:06am
by mjr
Let them park. Fine them. Council keeps part of the fines, uses them as matched funding for grants to build more space4cycling.
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 10:48am
by reohn2
mjr wrote:Let them park. Fine them. Council keeps part of the fines, uses them as matched funding for grants to build more space4cycling.
FINE THEM are you mad?
Don't you know that motorists are the most persecuted section of our society?
Tut,Tut
you should know better than even voice such an opinion in public!
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 1:19pm
by gaz
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Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 4:17pm
by Mark1978
mjr wrote:Let them park. Fine them. Council keeps part of the fines, uses them as matched funding for grants to build more space4cycling.
Unfortunately for most of them parking there is legal so no fines.
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 7:02pm
by Rob Archer
Tray of matt black paint, old mountain bike wheel..............
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 10:44pm
by mjr
Sorry momentary lapse that I thought we were talking about tracks not lanes. If the lane's that important to cycling then it should be a mandatory lane, then parking in it is fineable, isn't it?
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 13 Jul 2014, 12:05am
by Pete Owens
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 13 Jul 2014, 7:27am
by thirdcrank
Having gone quiet in 2011, this thread was resurrected (re-ignited?) by a single-post driver last month.
It seems to me that as the cycle lane which they were selfishly misusing for car parking was outside a school, it was probably installed as part of a safe cycle routes to school scheme, or similar ie part of a wider policy to encourage children to travel to school under their own steam. Put another way, this is intended to break the circle of parents driving their children to school with the self-serving justification that all the traffic makes any other mode of travel to school unsafe.
That one-off post merely demonstrates much of what we knew already: cycle lanes don't provide a safe or satisfactory solution to the problems faced by cyclists; on the contrary, they tend to restrict riders to the gutter, while offering an inviting parking spot to the they-can't-touch-you-for-it brigade.
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 13 Jul 2014, 9:09am
by niggle
As MelodyMaker is not contactable by PM according to their profile and they have not responded to the replies on the thread, we do not know what they think about the replies, which is a shame. I would like to have teased out their notions of priority and necessity.
Re: Cars Parked In Cycle Lanes: How Do We Stop It?
Posted: 13 Jul 2014, 10:01am
by Mark1978
niggle wrote:As MelodyMaker is not contactable by PM according to their profile and they have not responded to the replies on the thread, we do not know what they think about the replies, which is a shame. I would like to have teased out their notions of priority and necessity.
The unfortunate thing with this type of argument is that's it's extremely unlike they will change their ways. They will dismiss reasoned argument and carry on with their anti-social behaviour convinced they are in the right.