Cycle Lane Enforcement

**rastuscat** · 27th February 2018, 11:58

Amusing.

Christchurch City has a camera they use to target cars illegally using bus lanes.

With a flick of a switch, they could use it to target motorcyclists illegally using cycle lanes. I'm not suggesting they will, just that they could.

I'm not entirely opposed to the idea, as I've attended a lot of crashes where a motorcyclist or moped rider has been SMIDSY'd when riding up a cycle lane.

What say you, citizen?

**Navy Boy** · 27th February 2018, 13:10

Yep - It winds me up when you see bikes (Scooters mainly but I've seen plenty of bikers do it as well) using the cycle lanes, often at some speed.

All it does it hack the cagers off and one poorly timed door opening could be very painful.

**russd7** · 27th February 2018, 19:58

no cycle lanes in western southland but apparently nightcaps is growing despite the mines being stuffed but as for cycle lanes round invers, just wish the cyclists would learn how to use them.

**rastuscat** · 27th February 2018, 21:14

Originally Posted by russd7

no cycle lanes in western southland but apparently nightcaps is growing despite the mines being stuffed but as for cycle lanes round invers, just wish the cyclists would learn how to use them.

I wuz born in Nightcaps. I cycled there.

**AllanB** · 27th February 2018, 21:28

Don't start me on those money wasting CHCH councilors

And the stupid cycle lanes they are spending millions on ...............

And their inability to have any contractor repair a road properly...........

Or monitor the water properly ................

Tards.

**rastuscat** · 27th February 2018, 21:42

Originally Posted by AllanB

Don't start me on those money wasting CHCH councilors

And the stupid cycle lanes they are spending millions on ...............

And their inability to have any contractor repair a road properly...........

Or monitor the water properly ................

Tards.

I'll think about that when I'm cycling in those cycle lanes tomorrow.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 27th February 2018, 21:51

I am a huge fan of cycleways and think they are an investment. The ones in the CBD kind of suck but mainly because of the number of driveways and such crossing them. Tuam and St Asaph are good examples. If I ride to work i have a fantastic separated cycleway all the way from Brougham Street to Chinatown. The most dangerous part is Annex Rd/Blenheim Rd/Hansons Lane - still a cycleway but just paint on road.

As a ratepayer and taxpayer I am happy to subsidise them.

I tend not to use cycle lanes when motorbike commuting because if I am filtering I only do it when traffic is stopped and I tend to do it between two lanes (i.e. up the middle, or on the right) because I think I have better vision.

I had a 9am meeting across town today and took the motorbike because the traffic suck diddly ucked.

**EJK** · 28th February 2018, 07:08

Originally Posted by AllanB

Don't start me on those money wasting CHCH councilors

And the stupid cycle lanes they are spending millions on ...............

And their inability to have any contractor repair a road properly...........

Or monitor the water properly ................

Tards.

I work at an office over looking Tuam St and goodness-gracious-great-balls-of-fire whole lot of "cyclists" don't even seem to know how to ride on the cycle lane. Riding up the wrong way (Tuam St is one-way), on footpaths, main car road etc.

Why did the council even build it?

Don't get me started on cyclists running red lights.

**Scuba_Steve** · 28th February 2018, 07:41

Originally Posted by rastuscat

I'm not entirely opposed to the idea, as I've attended a lot of crashes where a motorcyclist or moped rider has been SMIDSY'd when riding up a cycle lane.

What say you, citizen?

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'

**rastuscat** · 28th February 2018, 07:57

Cycle lanes are a real conundrum. They ate intended to increase cycle safety and increase cycling as a transport mode.

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

Normally they are up the left hand side if traffic. If traffic builds up, they allow cyclists to progress by going up the left hand side of both stationary and crawling traffic.

Trouble is, conflicting traffic flows don't expect or anticipate them to being going up the left hand side, especially at intersections.

Two to three times a week a cyclist or motorcyclist gets cleaned up going up the left side of a line of stationary vehicles by a vehicle turning through a gap left in that line by a decent bloke.

Even legally riding up a bus lane, on the left of stationary vehicles, is dead risky. Being legal doesn't negate risk.

I just think if nobody rode their motorcycle or moped in cycle lanes (as required by law) l3ss people would get smidsyd doing so.

**Akzle** · 28th February 2018, 11:54

get cyclists off the road. stupid idiots.
make them motorcycle lanes.

**Swoop** · 28th February 2018, 12:56

Originally Posted by EJK

Don't get me started on cyclists running red lights.

What is your opinion on the pschylist being required to stop at a red light?
Does their lycra make their arse look fat while waiting for the red light to change?

**rastuscat** · 28th February 2018, 13:09

Originally Posted by Akzle

get cyclists off the road.

Cool. So you agree that lots of money should be spent separating cycle paths from traffic lanes.

I had no idea we thought the same way on this.

**EJK** · 28th February 2018, 13:17

Originally Posted by Swoop

What is your opinion on the pschylist being required to stop at a red light?
Does their lycra make their arse look fat while waiting for the red light to change?

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

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