Cyclist chased for taking dangerous Stroud cycle lane that takes riders against flow of traffic

Some years ago , riding uphill off a seafront, passenger in the car in front was giving a cyclist further ahead grief for not being in the cycle lane. Which was on the right, direction downhill *rollseyes*. Which was a fine example for the learner he was accompanying, judging by the 'L' on the back.

In Sarfend.
Make yer own jokes...

FYI, there's actually a term for this type of lane: "contraflow bike/cycle lane". Go ahead, give it a try.

I cycle the 'wrong way' up the local high street. Just because it has a no entry sign at the bottom doesn't mean I can't cycle against what motorists think is the right way as there are no one way signs along the road (ergo no TRO). So as i cut through the back of the multistory and join it a third of the way along i've not broken any laws and as far as I'm concerned the whole area was designed for integrated use with no kerbs etc. Only had one in 3 years telling me I'm going the wrong way so I'm totally ok with pointing out the error/misinterpretation that I'm in the wrong.

Back to the story, it's this crap we experience every day, hate crime, terrorism, piss poor infra pretending to be something useful when it's often the revers. I'm having words with the council next week about their broken promises from the 1999 urban Transport Plan which keep being regurgitated every few years and fuck all is done to actually implement the cycling bits ...grrrr

There used to be a contraflow cycle lane in central Bristol on Quay Street.  The council scrubbed it off whilst there were building works on the other side of the street, and painted it on the footpath instead. That was roundly laughed at for wiggling around all the street trees, and you can imagine how well the pedestrians stayed on their side of the white line... Thing is: the building work for which they needed to narrow the road finished months ago but they haven't moved the cycle lane back onto the road...

there are a few of these in leicester - the worst one leads along granby st towards the train station and is generally obstructed by illegaly parked cars, particularly in the evening rush hour, leaving cyclists with no option but to overtake into oncoming traffic. this along with pedestrians not looking, and cyclists coming from the other direction using it as a segregated lane...

All the hallmarks of the Nice attack. I imagine resources have been deployed accordingly?

I use one if these on my commute home, well l I say one of these, there aren't any signs or road markings. But the road is two car's wide and the footway is quiet if I need to hop onto it. It would be ideal for a bit of paint and possibly a legal requirement as there should be an historic right of way because the riverside towpath just dissappears.

Surely the most serious problem here is not the poor signage, but a "professional" driver in charge of a lorry, who thinks it is appropriate to endanger the safety of a vulneravle road user who he thinks isn't following the rules. Do you think he tries to run over pedestrians who don't look too, or run speeding motorists off the road? I suspect their is some anti-cyclist prejudice involved too.

There are lots of contraflows in the city if London (eg St Mary Axe). Usually with vehicles parked in the cycling lane. So pretty much everyday I have cars or lorries driving straight around me to scare me off the road.

There are a few of these around. There is one in Ipswich and pedestrians regularly cross whilst looking just one way, and not noticing the cyclist coming against the flow.

During a driving lesson, my instructor reached across and used the horn and started shouting at a cyclist that was legitimately using a contraflow bike lane on a one-way road.

The mat disturbing that about this incident in the article is not that the driver hooted or swore, but the fact that they drove at the cyclist and chased them. There are some real nutters out there, and some are allowed to drive vehicles on public roads!