Scooters in cycle lanes?

[vegan_virgin]

i dont know if it's a national problem but i have noticed a number of scooter riders around christchurch using cycle lanes recently. am i just too much of a grumpy old bastard or is this really annoying?

then again i suppose it at least means theyre out of the traffic and not slowing everybody else down as they tend to be travelling about 30kmh

[The Everlasting]

I often use those lanes,what's the issue?

[Ixion]

Keeps them off the footpaths.

[vegan_virgin]

when im in my car none, but when im cycling with somebody buzzing about behind me i get a bit irked.

[The Everlasting]

when im in my car none, but when im cycling with somebody buzzing about behind me i get a bit irked.

I don't stay behind them,I overtake em... That's on the scooter of course. Wouldn't go in the cycle lanes on the bike.

[DangerMice]

Pfffft, I wish scooters were allowed in cycle lanes, at least I could head up the side of the North Western from Pt Chev. to Lincoln Rd then. Save me going all the fuck away around Gt. North Rd.

Come to think of it, is there any other class of transport that *can't* use that NW route. Every other vehicle can use the motorway, and peds and cyclists can use the cycle way. Hmph I feel discriminated against, off to the human rights commissioner!

[Spearfish]

There is a scooter going down the cycle lane on the north western. He starts a western springs and comes out at Henderson. I know he is on borrowed time with that one.

You can filter the motorway in the mornings with a moped if its crawling, its worth it just for the reactions of bikers just peel off if its starting to flow faster than 70kph. .
The only thing the police will question you for is if your holding up traffic or riding in a dangerous manner.

[DangerMice]

...I know he is on borrowed time with that one.

Wonder what the ticket is worth, a few weeks gas I'm sure.

...its worth it just for the reactions of bikers

LOL classic

[CookMySock]

when im cycling with somebody buzzing about behind me i get a bit irked.

Aint life like that? Lots of shit to irk ya. Sometimes you can't, or shouldn't do anything about it. Sometimes, it doesn't even affect you.

Steve

[Psyko]

I ride my TR50 along the cycle ways from cenral park drive right into western springs on occasions. I am extra cautious and always slow or stop to let cyclist thru where it's narrow. I've never even been looked at by police and other users of the cycle lanes don't seem to mind. To my knowledge you can use them provided they are not a footpath. I don't know that for sure but beats going the long way round! It's all about sharing!

[Flip]

I thought it was a $150 fine if you rode in the cycle lane.

[DangerMice]

Happy to be corrected but I'm pretty sure you can't use that lane. It's a shared cycle/pedestrian path. Having said that, I used to see heaps of scoots use it when I was driving to work a year ago. Maybe it's a case of don't be stupid and you'll be left alone.

$150, that's nearly 4 months petrol lol.

[allycatz]

Happy to be corrected but I'm pretty sure you can't use that lane. It's a shared cycle/pedestrian path. Having said that, I used to see heaps of scoots use it when I was driving to work a year ago. Maybe it's a case of don't be stupid and you'll be left alone.

$150, that's nearly 4 months petrol lol.

Road code says its a nono.....

[Leseid]

I once got held up behind a scooter on my bicycle going down the cycle/foot path on the Centenal Highway south bound (down the steep hill). Although this was 3 years ago, sometimes you get the odd walker going down there. It's a bit of a challenge getting a bicycle around a walker, so I don't know what this guy was going to do if he caught a walker.

It's a battle out there on the daily commute, you follow the rules you get to work late.

[pritch]

Keeps them off the footpaths.

I use the cycle lanes sometimes, and the footpath, and a pedestrian underpass. There is also a private motel driveway that I have used in the past, but that feels a bit cheeky... Whatever it takes to "make progress". We don't buy scootahs to sit in a line of traffic...

The footpath thing has been required almost daily of late and I'm getting nervous about some frustrated cager ringing *555 to have a whinge.