Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something comes
along to stop you in your (cycle) tracks.
This time it’s a rather unusual cycle lane (and pavement
for parents and kids?) just outside Bangor on the road to Belfast.
There are very chunky plastic bollards or wands placed at
intervals all along the stretch of tarmac to the side of the road where cyclists
would naturally ride.
However, the bollards/wands are placed right in the
middle of this area and there are lots of them, meaning that section is unusable
for cyclists on pedestrians.
To add to the confusion, a cycle lane is marked – in
green – between some of the bollards. But those stretches are so short you
couldn’t ride in them.
And before the work was done, this stretch was a two-way
cycle lane.
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Usually even when cycle lanes are very poorly planned or
executed, you can tell what the designer’s intention was when they were
starting out; however miserably they have failed.
But in this instance, the design and execution is so poor
it’s impossible to know what the intention was here.
The stretch of road where the new markings have been put
in place is outside the Ballygilbert Presbyterian Church.
All we can think of is that the lay-out is designed to
stop people parking outside the church and that perhaps when the signs come to
an end they give way to the cycle lane and walkway signaled on the signs.
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