On the way to Pimlico From Battersea car boot sale I passed the redone roundabout at the corner of Battersea Park. It looks like a roundabout that you would see in the Netherlands. It has a separate isolated bike lanes around the perimeter. It looks kind of complicated regarding who has priority. I am a cowardly( but fast) cyclist generally I decided that I aint using that cycle lane. I have got used to roundabout in the normal way.
Link http://thinkinghighways.com/road-users- ... from-cars/
Cant seem to post an image on this site.
Dodgy Dutch Bicycle Roundabout
Re: Dodgy Dutch Bicycle Roundabout
The picture on that linked article is nothing like Dutch or what you'd see in the Netherlands:
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It's hard to know where to start with the problems in the pictures: the lack of barriers between most of the cycleway and carriageway, the stupid angles that both parties are having to look at some of the intersections, the "give way" markings missing from some entrances, the proliferation of signals, the one-way cycleway, ...
Is that what they've actually built? Double-Dutch, perhaps!
[youtube]q664_GjTyoE[/youtube]
It's hard to know where to start with the problems in the pictures: the lack of barriers between most of the cycleway and carriageway, the stupid angles that both parties are having to look at some of the intersections, the "give way" markings missing from some entrances, the proliferation of signals, the one-way cycleway, ...
Is that what they've actually built? Double-Dutch, perhaps!
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Re: Dodgy Dutch Bicycle Roundabout
Hmmm.
I wonder what the comparative traffic levels of the two junctions are?
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I wonder what the comparative traffic levels of the two junctions are?
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Re: Dodgy Dutch Bicycle Roundabout
ferdinand wrote:Hmmm.
I wonder what the comparative traffic levels of the two junctions are?
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If there is traffic at roundabout then I might consider using the bike lanes.