Cycle paths !!

It’s up to us road users(vehicle) to drive safely around them to ensure their safety👍🏻. There’s room for all of us indoors👍🏻😊

I'm aware of my responsibilities when driving on the highway Rocky !

I'm just questioning the mentality of cyclists that are too dumb to use provided cycle paths.

Why assume they're dumb? There might be a perfectly valid reason. Have you asked them?

Inner city/town cycle lanes in this country are often poorly designed, less than a few hundred metres long, lead nowhere, designed so badly that cars can still park over them, and in a gutter where debris, broken glass, you name it, it will burst your tyre type debris accumulates! The people who design these type of paths/lanes have clearly never ridden a bike in such a place, and are often merely ticking an "X metres of cycle path tick box!"  There are some very good examples of ciry/town paths, but also some absolute shockers! Without seeing the path you are on about OP, it is difficult to comment accurately. But those cyclists you are so quick to label stupid, may in fact be using more common sense than you give them credit.

Why ask them Tiny, name a perfectly valid reason.

Agree tda regards some inner city cycle lanes are bordering on dangerous for cyclists to safely use.

I wrote the OP regarding a perfectly good safe off road footpath / cycle lane. ( take a look on

Google Earth street view Ashby Road, Hinckley.

Clicker way, Earl Shilton.

 

 

Ah, a shared pedestrian/cycle path. In which case said cyclist may indeed be using common sense. They are often shared with pedestrians who are on remote control, head down focussing only on a little bright screen, the dog walkers whose dogs are perfectly well behaved off lead until they see a bike, the "under control dogs" that are on a zip wire all across full path, the double buggy toting pair of yummy mummies/daddies who have to walk side by side to discuss diaper issues, the beer swilling lout (either sex) who "in't gunna move 'cos I hate that Wiggins bloke" and a big favourite round here, sections of the community that have no understandings of either the Highway Code or shared paths and have to walk in large groups.

I was on a shared path when I cycled across to watch finish of TdeF near us. Knocked off my bike twice.

I believe it's recommended cyclists stay on the highway proper as well if they are doing above 15 miles per hour. Safer for pedestrians!

"Why ask them Tiny, name a perfectly valid reason."

To find out their reasons for not using the cycle path. That’s perfectly valid as their failure to do so obviously bothers you. TDA has described some hazards to cyclists so it might help to know which, if any, apply. You could pass your findings on to the Local Authority who may be able to make amends helping cyclists and road users be safer. Helping them all can’t be bad, can it?

 

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I don’t think they’re ‘dumb’ I do however think they’re vulnerable & as such I will always give them a wide berth regardless of whether I agree with their positioning on or off the road. I’m not arrogant enough to decide how others should cycle, I just know I don’t want to try & live with the aftermath of hitting a cyclist☹️

It's not arrogant to question why cyclists don't make use of provided off road cycle paths as in my OP, we are not mentioning on road " cycle lanes " we are indeed about off road " cycle paths ".

So as I will also give cyclists a wide berth on the highway I will also wonder why they are not using the provided cycle routes.

Let's take all the cycle routes/lanes/paths/routes away and admit it was a waste of time and money listening to all those protesters for years on end. !!!

BTW : What happened to bells on bikes ?