| Comment | Cyclist here.
I agree it does my head in too when people cycle on the pavement when there's a cycle lane. Sometimes there's very little choice but to carefully use a s stretch of pavement, but even if there was a shit cycle path, I'd use that rather than a pavement.
But there are a couple of fair enough reasons someone might choose to use a road lane rather than the cycle path:
* They're an experienced and fast road cyclist. Someone that would be on the road anyway, and who would find the cycle lane actually slows their journey down.
* Someone who's maybe figured out their route in advance and knows they need to be in the road lane to have the safest means of turning right at an upcoming junction (junction design is still really weak in Glasgow).
* Someone who knows of existing issues on the cycle path, and just stays on the road to avoid them. These might even be temporary issues. The South City Way was basically closed at one section on one side for about 500m+ due utilities works earlier this year. Cyclists would use the road at this stretch and close to it, and I know anecdotally that a lot had bother from drivers telling them to get into the cycle lane (which was literally blocked at multiple stages). |
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