| Comment | Anecdote time:
I was once hit by a taxi in the cycle lane on University Avenue.
On the east end of the road it forks, left to Bank St and right to Park. Unfortunately the muppet who painted the lanes didn’t make the cycle lane contiguous so it’s tricky to move between them, but that’s not actually the problem here.
I had just joined the turn right cycle lane when a cab realised he was in the wrong lane and without indicating, looking, or anything akin to safety, changed lanes across the cycle lane and me.
I wasn’t badly hurt, but the guy just wound down his window and yelled something a long the lines of “you should be in the cycle lane!”
I think University Avenue is a perfect example of someone saying “let’s put in cycle paths” without anyone researching how best to do it.
When I cycle in Glasgow there are a few places I see such, and it frustrates. I don’t want to take pole position in front of a car on a hill, but when the council have planned man hole covers I can’t cycle over ever 10m I have no option. |
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