Cycle Lane Enforcement

[Akzle]

The ones I saw don't wear lycras. Too expensive and fancy.

Mostly hipsters and hoodie wearing junkies on stolen bikes wearing no helmets.

nah they can stay.

10 points eash.

[awayatc]

Human beings on the slowest and most vulnerable means of transport seem to cop a lot of flak in Unzed....

Why.....?

Even more incomprehensible is when this is coming from "bikers".....

Tossers more like it.

And no, I don't ride a push bike myself,
But I give those that do a wide berth...

[GazzaH]

Ezakly.

It was, what, a month ago that we saw a similar rabid reaction to cyclists using noodles to carve themselves a little more life-space.

[FJRider]

I wuz born in Nightcaps. I cycled there.

You must be really clever ... I was born in Tuatapere ... but I wasn't old enough to walk ...

[rastuscat]

You must be really clever ... I was born in Tuatapere ... but I wasn't old enough to walk ...

ah Tu at a Pere. The Sausage Cspital of NZ. My whanau is in the cemetry there.

We may be related.

[FJRider]

But sometimes they are just plain dangerous. It's more to do with the way cyclists use them.

As always ... it's not what you've got ... it's how you use it ...

Perhaps ... if they stayed off our roads ... we'll stay out of their cycle lanes ...

... But if all road users used the road system as the law requires ... specific lanes for cyclists (only) would not be required.

[FJRider]

ah Tu at a Pere. The Sausage Cspital of NZ. My whanau is in the cemetry there.

We may be related.

.............................................

[AllanB]

I've no problem with people cycling, shit I have one in the shed somewhere. My main issues with cycle lanes in Christchurch are:

1. They give the illusion of a 'safe' area. There is no safe area, you are more vulnerable on a cycle in traffic that a motorcycle. Peddling flat out down the inside of a huge cue of cars thinking you are safe because the council painted a line is dangerous thinking. I spent years biking to work, never needed those lanes and kept my eyes keen.

2. The truly bizarre construction of some of the inner city lanes and the same stupid design is now working it's way out to Edgeware and Hoon Hay ....... utter waste of money in construction of extra curbs etc.

[pritch]

There are cycle lanes in town here, we adopted them early in the piece, I suspect because at least of the town planners was a cyclist. There was a whinge from someone on the council a few years ago that there are fewer cyclists in New Plymouth than in Palmerston North or in Napier. A quick look at the topography whould explain that to any normal person, but to a councillor perhaps not.

Even though we have them I have tended to avoid them, having a preference for the roads less travelled.

[Murray]

no to spending lots of real people's money on them.

You live on a benefit don't you? Who are these real people you speak of??

[Akzle]

You live on a benefit don't you? Who are these real people you speak of??

my mate jesus and his hombrés

[Swoop]

Human beings on the slowest and most vulnerable means of transport seem to cop a lot of flak in Unzed....

Why.....?

Even more incomprehensible is when this is coming from "bikers"..

Simply because of them wobbling about in groups and failing to obey what little laws affect them (No more than 2 abreast, single file when passing a parked car, etc).
Simple shit really.

[old slider]

Simply because of them wobbling about in groups and failing to obey what little laws affect them (No more than 2 abreast, single file when passing a parked car, etc).
Simple shit really.

Two abreast is crazy on most of the roads around my district, we already have to slow down and stay behind single riders to then pass safely. On many of our 100kmph roads it is often a very quick slow down when cresting a rise or rounding a bend seeing cyclists in front of you and oncoming vehicles.

[rastuscat]

Two abreast is crazy on most of the roads around my district, we already have to slow down and stay behind single riders to then pass safely. On many of our 100kmph roads it is often a very quick slow down when cresting a rise or rounding a bend seeing cyclists in front of you and oncoming vehicles.

Your frustration is born from the expectation that you have an entitlement to travel at the speed limit all the time.

Having to slow down is just life. Things happen. Kids kick balls out onto the road. Cyclists ride, sometimes inconsiderately. Some drivers want to go slow, unlawfully if they are impeding traffic.

The speed limit is not a God given right.

[FJRider]

My question is what makes using a moto-cycle in a cycle lane more hazardous than a pedal-cycle in a cycle lane?
Or is it just that the motor variants go 'too fast for conditions'

If you are not supposed to be there ... the motor vehicle operators do not expect you to be there ... and wont look for you there.

If car parking is permitted to the inside of the cycle lane ... car doors opening can be expected. Best you leave that hazard to the cyclists and save that clear space to avoid hitting doors.