It’s a bit too narrow but not too bad of a bike lane. Of course there are limits to any project and they have to end somewhere but there should be a transition at those points or a connection to somewhere else you can go.
In this case you can tell from the dirt on the ground that people are moving over to the sidewalk.
An this one also make sense – it’s there because the shoulder disappears at the telephone pole. You can see in the distance that the road widens. So the bike lane is there to tell drivers to give room for bikes – otherwise, if drivers took a straight line, they would sideswipe cvclists. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2009/nov/05/readers-worst-cycle-lanes#img-15
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Pretty good one. There’s also this old trove from The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2009/nov/05/readers-worst-cycle-lanes
It’s a bit too narrow but not too bad of a bike lane. Of course there are limits to any project and they have to end somewhere but there should be a transition at those points or a connection to somewhere else you can go.
In this case you can tell from the dirt on the ground that people are moving over to the sidewalk.
This one makes a bit of sense – it’s so cyclists can cross the lane at a right angle to access the elevated roadway in the background (instead of shoulder checking and merging across potentially fast moving traffic).
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2009/nov/05/readers-worst-cycle-lanes#img-11
An this one also make sense – it’s there because the shoulder disappears at the telephone pole. You can see in the distance that the road widens. So the bike lane is there to tell drivers to give room for bikes – otherwise, if drivers took a straight line, they would sideswipe cvclists.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2009/nov/05/readers-worst-cycle-lanes#img-15