Cycle paths - red/green difference?

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is there a difference
between a greenish painted and a redish painted cycle path on the
road?

Many thanks in advance,

Chris

Not to someone with red-green colour blindness, anyway

"Chris Heys" wrote in message
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Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is there a difference
between a greenish painted and a redish painted cycle path on the
road?

Yes. Red ones are narrow, slippery, glass & debris strewn, inconvenient and
dangerous.

Green ones, on the other hand, are slippery, narrow, debris & glass strewn,
dangerous and inconvenient.

:~)

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:26:39 GMT, in
, Chris Heys
wrote:


Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is there a difference
between a greenish painted and a redish painted cycle path on the
road?

It's easier to see broken glass on a green one.

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"Chris Heys" wrote in message
...

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is there a difference
between a greenish painted and a redish painted cycle path on the
road?

Yes, the colour.

(sorry, couldn't resist)

Pete

"Richard Bates" wrote in
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It's easier to see broken glass on a green one.

Unless it's a green bottle that's been trashed on the lane.

Chris Heys wrote:
Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is there a difference
between a greenish painted and a redish painted cycle path on the
road?

No. Green is the new red.

~PB

Chris Heys wrote:
Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is there a
difference between a greenish painted and a redish painted cycle
path on the road?


The green one is the verge ;-)

Tony

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:26:39 GMT, Chris Heys
wrote:


Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is there a difference
between a greenish painted and a redish painted cycle path on the
road?

The difference is the cost at the time the council asked for tenders of
the coloured chippings.

Colin
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Richard Bates wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:26:39 GMT, in
, Chris Heys
wrote:


Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is there a difference
between a greenish painted and a redish painted cycle path on the
road?

It's easier to see broken glass on a green one.

Not if it's a Buckfast bottle. Buckfast Tonic Wine - allegedly made by
monks in Devon. Comes in green glass bottles to blend in with green
cycle lanes. Itis popular with local neds in the west of Scotland as a
cheap way of getting drunk. Tradition (like the Russian smashing of
wine glasses after a toast)demands that when finished the bottle is
smashed on the nearest hard surface (unless required for use as a
weapon).
I can confirm however at least one incident of poetic justice when a
Buckfast drinker watching a football match on TV lashed out in
frustration when his team missed a penalty and struck himself on the
forehead having forgotten about the Buckie bottle in his hand.
Hospital treatment and stitches required.
Iain