Bus lane markings - new rules (?)

I've heard from BCC's cycling officer that bike symbols on bus lanes
are no longer allowed - and I've seen them disappearing in Brum.

The signs still show bikes, and the rules of use haven't changed -
just the marks on the ground.

FYI
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Comm again, Mike.

(pmailkeey) wrote in news:403df384.12201258
@news.swinternet.net:

The signs still show bikes, and the rules of use haven't changed -
just the marks on the ground.

Hopefully that will cut down on the shouts of "Oi, get back in the bus lane
where you belong!" Doubt it though :-(


Graeme

Pmailkeey wrote:
I've heard from BCC's cycling officer that bike symbols on bus lanes are
no longer allowed - and I've seen them disappearing in Brum. The signs
still show bikes, and the rules of use haven't changed - just the marks
on the ground.


Perhaps the bike symbols are too expensive to put onto the tarmac :


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mae wedi ysgrifennu:

Perhaps the bike symbols are too expensive to put onto the tarmac

Yeah, but they don't have to draw a top of the range Bianchi on the road, do
they? One of them pretend mountain bikes that toy shops sell for less than a
hundred quid would be fine, wouldn't it?

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Rob

"Robert Bruce" wrote in
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mae wedi ysgrifennu:

Perhaps the bike symbols are too expensive to put onto the tarmac

Yeah, but they don't have to draw a top of the range Bianchi on the road,
do
they? One of them pretend mountain bikes that toy shops sell for less than
a
hundred quid would be fine, wouldn't it?

Its perhaps those radical zero spoked wheels.

Robert Bruce wrote:

mae wedi ysgrifennu:

Perhaps the bike symbols are too expensive to put onto the tarmac

Yeah, but they don't have to draw a top of the range Bianchi on the
road, do they? One of them pretend mountain bikes that toy shops sell
for less than a hundred quid would be fine, wouldn't it?

People keep stealing the bike symbols and selling them on eBay...

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pmailkeey wrote:
I've heard from BCC's cycling officer that bike symbols on bus lanes
are no longer allowed - and I've seen them disappearing in Brum.

The signs still show bikes, and the rules of use haven't changed -
just the marks on the ground.


Probably someone did a risk analysis and decided their was too high a risk of
running over people trying to emulate that railway poster ;-)

Tony

"Tony Raven" wrote in message
...
pmailkeey wrote:
I've heard from BCC's cycling officer that bike symbols on bus lanes
are no longer allowed - and I've seen them disappearing in Brum.

The signs still show bikes, and the rules of use haven't changed -
just the marks on the ground.


Probably someone did a risk analysis and decided their was too high a risk
of
running over people trying to emulate that railway poster ;-)

Tony



From a friend who is an LA Cycling Officer .... it is probably a combination
of a) saving the expense of painting the cycle symbols and b) an effort
to reduce the amount of paint on the road which becomes potentially tricky
for cyclists when it's wet (remember Ulrich skidding and falling off in the
final TT in last year's TdeF ? - as the Fosters ad says "Jeez, that'll hurt
in the morning"

In reality, why do we need the symbols painted on the tarmac ? - the post
mounted signs give the permission and the car users (should) know to keep
off.

Rob

Tony Raven wrote:
pmailkeey wrote: Probably someone did a risk analysis and decided their
was too high a risk of running over people trying to emulate that
railway poster ;-)


I heard that it was a result of someone from the politically correc
lobby that got them removed, apparently the frame geometry was too mal
specific, and until a suitably gender-neutral design could be agree
upon, they all have to go :mad


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"McBain_v1" wrote in message
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Tony Raven wrote:
pmailkeey wrote: Probably someone did a risk analysis and decided
their
was too high a risk of running over people trying to emulate that
railway poster ;-)



I heard that it was a result of someone from the politically correct
lobby that got them removed, apparently the frame geometry was too male
specific, and until a suitably gender-neutral design could be agreed
upon, they all have to go


Don't go there .... before you know it you'll get somebody demanding a
recumbent symbol .... ;-)

RG