Hope Glenda's OK.

Bike lanes, mmmm. Useless things. In the highway code it stipulates that a cyclist should be a minimum of three feet from the curb, and should take up the lane properly if the cyclist can keep up with the traffic. This is to give the cyclist room for manouver. Seeing as 99%of all bikes lane are only just about three feet wide, you are quite often left with no room (never mind people parking in them ). I use the white line as a guide. Mostly they aren't worth the paint. And the ones on pavements? Don't get me started. Suffice it to say, that I do not believe that pedestrians and cyclists should be mixed. And that is from the viewpoint of being both a pedestrian and a cyclist.

The only bike lanes that are worth bothering with are the ones where there is a little wall between you and the traffic and / or pedestrians. They're bringing more of these in around the centre of London, especially where the bikes can go contrary to the traffic.

On the whole, it would be far more productive to think out routes away from roads with heavy traffic, which they have done in London, but more importantly, make sure you can bleedin' find / follow the damn routes by vastly improving the signs!

Rant over, back in box.........

TTFN M'Lady P.