We’ve picked some of the best contributions below, for the sweet rest, head over to the Flickr page.
“Someone at the council got a little bit crazy with the cycle lane planning. It kind of makes sense. Whatever the logic behind all this, the upshot is that two lanes of traffic on what is supposed to be one of London’s bike arteries have to cross over each other face to face. Great work council guy! The right conclusion to draw from this is that segregated cycle lanes of this kind are a bad idea. There are already plenty of serious studies showing just how bad an idea, for various reasons; this photo can be added lightly to the pile.” From Tom Anderson
“The mind boggles at times! I’m not really sure what the city council was thinking of when it made this ludicrous cycle path. If you navigated this cycle path at any speed you would be sure to fall off.” From phill.d
“An obstacle I encounter every day on my way to work. England just isn’t really clued up yet with cycle path design.” From diskojez
“What on earth is this?” From Clive Andrews
“The daft thing is, not only is it short, it’s also a contra-flow, then it suddenly ends with a curb for you to smack into unexpectedly or a sharp right turn across the traffic, followed by a sharp left turn on to a pavement, trying to avoid irate pedestrians who forget that it is also a cycle lane.” From Dickie Dooda
By Slogfester
“Wuppertal, most bicycle hostile city in Germany.” From Julian Schüngel
“Why bother? Does this help anyone? No. You’ve got to feel sorry for the people who have to paint these bizarre white lines.” From greenerleith
“It was possible to quite legitimately arrive in the middle of the path “improvement” works here without crossing any barriers or passing any signs. This couple, with their children, were trying to enjoy a cycle to the beach on a sunny Bank Holiday and ended up having to have us help them untie them from this contractor’s mess.
The addition of honking great new lamp posts in their current positions doesn’t help matters.” From andy a
