Re: Some bicycle paths...

Am Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:38:06 GMT schrieb Roger Merriman
<roger@sarlet.com>:

Wolfgang Strobl <news5@mystrobl.de> wrote:

Am Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:41:51 GMT schrieb Roger Merriman
<roger@sarlet.com>:
 

In the UK that ie “Mandatory” only applies to motor traffic, bikes can ride
where ever legally and for most part in practice.

 
So in essence, in the UK, mandatory bike lanes aren't mandatory, right?
 
Strange. What would you call a mandatory bike lane, then? Voluntary?
 
 

It’s a bike lane, the mandatory or not be is only related to motorists, All
of such types are older magic paint generally tik box exercise so stuff
that at best is Meh at worse is ignored.

You didn't answer my question.  Imagine a lane on the road that is
marked in such a way that it is mandatory to use this lane, when riding
a bicycle. Germany, France and many other European countries have more
than on way of doing that.

This sign
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Zeichen_237_-_Sonderweg_Radfahrer,_StVO_1992.svg>,
obliges cyclists to use the right-hand lane of a road marked in this
way, and it implies a ban on using the the other parts of the road by
bike. Sidepaths marked in a similary way are handled in the same way,
you must use these, as a cyclist, instead of using the road.

How would you call a bicycle lane so marked? I call these mandatory,
they are bicycle lanes mandatory for bicyclists.

For illustration, this is a quite recent streetview photo of such a
bicycle lane in my home town, part of my former commute.  

<https://www.google.de/maps/@50.735366,7.1052758,3a,75y,345.37h,78.58t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1stSQFnCmubeCCT3NcbxPfwA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DtSQFnCmubeCCT3NcbxPfwA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D345.3653731279749%26pitch%3D11.420637510237043%26thumbfov%3
D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu>


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