And the award for worst cycle lane goes to...

[Skipsy]

Du Cane Road in White City, London: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5164688 ... 384!8i8192

Look at the way it weaves around parking spaces, through the door zone and into the driving lane, making it narrower than a car width!
This was repainted within the last 2 weeks, and has been on the road since at least 2008.
How on Earth can anyone have actually thought this was a good idea, and how has it been like this for 13+ years??!!
And with me watching a lot of youtube channel Not Just Bikes which showcases Dutch cycle infrastructure, its just embarrassing how bad this cycle infrastructure is.

I challenge anyone to find a worse piece of cycling infrastructure in the UK.

[jervi]

Okay. I don't know where to start. I'm not going to bother with all the "cycle lanes" which are just the hard strip next to a dual carriageway.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8515192 ... 384!8i8192 - I think this is to allow easier right turns into Surrenden Cresent, however would be better if it was signed as a shared area rather than as a painted lane. Most cyclists would carry out a normal right turn, only children and very scared people would use the crossing, these people are slow and therefor a shared space wouldn't be an issue.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8455194 ... 384!8i8192 - good luck fitting into those lanes
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8357661 ... 312!8i6656 - worst part, dodging trees, traffic lights, bollards, street lights and everyone walking in the way
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8336141 ... 384!8i8192 - Just fit them in the middle. Also the road it turns right into has a no entry sign without exceptions on it.
Those last 4 are on NCN route 20, the first three ones should be gone shortly since the A23 between the A27 and the start of gyratory is having a new cycle lane/track put in (active travel fund tranche 2), but they are horrendous.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8427808 ... 312!8i6656 - just yeet yourself across the A27. the markings are no longer there, not sure if that makes it better or worse.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8277565 ... 384!8i8192 - Don't think anyone ever has used this.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8294854 ... 384!8i8192 - This is the winning one from me. Put a 1m lane in and then the other side of the lights make the footway widen out to it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.282905, ... 384!8i8192 - Cycle lane beside the M23 just yeets across it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.9931998 ... 384!8i8192 - Runs on the left side of parked cars, with no buffer. I was very nearly doored here today. Ain't using that one again!
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2141875 ... 312!8i6656 - A lovely central cycle lane. That sign has been changed to this in December 20 due to the bypasses opening.

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Many mistakes on it, including "(A607)" should be "A607" and no destination for the cycle lane (which disappears at the junction). Also not sure if that cycle sign can appear like that on another sign.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8315606 ... 92!5m1!1e1 - and these cycle lanes that are useless since they end after 40 yards, plus stupidly close to parked vehicles and right into a bus stop, better than it was before works were done in about 2014.

[Micro The Maniac]

Du Cane Road in White City, London: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5164688 ... 384!8i8192

Good to see the postie respecting the lane on the other side of the road... parking facing the traffic, blocking the cycle lane, on the kerb (which is illegal in London) and on double-yellows.

Yes, I know they have exemptions...

[Big L]

Du Cane Road in White City, London: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5164688 ... 384!8i8192

Good to see the postie respecting the lane on the other side of the road... parking facing the traffic, blocking the cycle lane, on the kerb (which is illegal in London) and on double-yellows.

Yes, I know they have exemptions...

"Saving the world in an electric van" exemptions?

[fras]

Have a look in here. The sheer mindlessness of what is put down in the street beggars belief ! Are the people responsible for this totally mad or what ?
http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/book.htm
I love the droll, and it must be said, sarcastic comments on each facility. Do officials have any shame at all at foisting this stuff onto us ?

[B6047]

I always think this is the most unnecessary cyclist sign - northbound on A46 Warwick Bypass. Any cyclist who somehow manages to make it this far (probably none) will have a much easier time after the next junction when its 3 lanes with narrow hard shoulder.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3030472 ... 384!8i8192

[jervi]

I always think this is the most unnecessary cyclist sign - northbound on A46 Warwick Bypass. Any cyclist who somehow manages to make it this far (probably none) will have a much easier time after the next junction when its 3 lanes with narrow hard shoulder.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3030472 ... 384!8i8192

Kinda similar one here
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8713794 ... 384!8i8192
If you managed to cycle along a D3, I am fairly certain you will be able to get into the correct lane to continue on your way instead of going onto a shared path only to giveway to traffic you otherwise would of not of.

[M19]

Just as bad in Gateshead together with hatching for the sake of hatching it seems. Another example of making streets “attractive” for sustainable travel by legally vandalising them. Not exactly placemaking.

[the cheesecake man]

Have a look in here. The sheer mindlessness of what is put down in the street beggars belief ! Are the people responsible for this totally mad or what ?
http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/book.htm
I love the droll, and it must be said, sarcastic comments on each facility. Do officials have any shame at all at foisting this stuff onto us ?

It's an excellent website as you say. It says all you need to know about why cycle "facilities" often don't attract many cyclists. It's a shame the website has stopped at February 2019; it's certainly not because they've run out of suitable candidates.

How about these for example? Approaching each pedestrian refuge, an inadequate cycle lane appears then stops just as abruptly afterwards. What does this achieve?

[SteelCamel]

I always think this is the most unnecessary cyclist sign - northbound on A46 Warwick Bypass. Any cyclist who somehow manages to make it this far (probably none) will have a much easier time after the next junction when its 3 lanes with narrow hard shoulder.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3030472 ... 384!8i8192

Apparently the "alternative route" is to ride half-way down the slip road, then turn left and crash into a tree!
If you ignore that and continue to the roundabout, there's a shared-use path which you could take - but the signage says not to use it, and go round the roundabout instead.

[jgharston]

How about these for example? Approaching each pedestrian refuge, an inadequate cycle lane appears then stops just as abruptly afterwards. What does this achieve?

Particularly ridiculous as there's the old tram reservation just to the left along almost the whole length of Abbey Lane, which makes a much better route for cycling.

[jabbaboy]

I know this doesn't look bad but stuff like - https://goo.gl/maps/doSy4T4DE9Dcoc4y7 is much worse than the op.

You can use the cycle lane and you have to cross the traffic or well you can just use the roundabout and avoid it. Funnily there's contantly bikes using the road instead. They're littered all over the country aswell.

Special mention for this one aswell which just abruptly ends aswell with no way to get on/off it - https://goo.gl/maps/bR1uwza356aXmraF6

[jervi]

This mising section of cycleway is a joke.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.0105434 ... 312!8i6656 - just terminates onto the grass verge
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.0105824 ... 312!8i6656 - from the other direction it also terminates onto the grass verge, but happens to be near an access to a field so there is a dropped kerb.
Clearly whoever was the Highway Authority to the planning team wasn't very good at their job.

Theres a few places I know of where a cycleway (usually shared) just terminates without any access to the road.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.0194994 ... 312!8i6656 - No dropped kerb. I've reported this and so have a few others but nothing has been done.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0222186 ... 312!8i6656 - I guess they just expect people to illegally ride on the pavement?
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1150609 ... 384!8i8192 - hard to see here but the cycleway ends randomly. Although it isn't signed, maps for the original (now removed) covid cycle lanes shows this being the end of the cycleway and turning legally into a footway at that point.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1015476 ... 384!8i8192 - This is a weird bit of cycle/footway where the sides switch over. To the Right the cycle side is on the far side, while to the left it is on the near side, slightly confused me first time I was on it since I ended up on the wrong side!

[Herned]

I know this doesn't look bad but stuff like - https://goo.gl/maps/doSy4T4DE9Dcoc4y7 is much worse than the op.

You can use the cycle lane and you have to cross the traffic or well you can just use the roundabout and avoid it. Funnily there's contantly bikes using the road instead. They're littered all over the country aswell.

Special mention for this one aswell which just abruptly ends aswell with no way to get on/off it - https://goo.gl/maps/bR1uwza356aXmraF6

I don't know why for roundabouts like that we never build subways. The Dutch build them everywhere. And if not that, why not have the cycle lane as part of the roundabout so that joining traffic has to give way to cycles as well?

So much of what is done for cycling provision could be so much better for not much more cost. Why the insistence on using paths split with a white line which virtually no pedestrians pay attention to? Would it really be that much more expensive to have an extra curb and a raised path for pedestrians?

[KeithW]

I don't know why for roundabouts like that we never build subways. The Dutch build them everywhere. And if not that, why not have the cycle lane as part of the roundabout so that joining traffic has to give way to cycles as well?

So much of what is done for cycling provision could be so much better for not much more cost. Why the insistence on using paths split with a white line which virtually no pedestrians pay attention to? Would it really be that much more expensive to have an extra curb and a raised path for pedestrians?

Wait for the first person to trip on the kerb, break a leg and the letter from an ambulance chasing lawyer to hit the mat.

[solocle]

This standard Highways England fare has to be up there.

And this is after the sign encouraging you onto the old A35.

Naturally I went ahead and ignored both signs... the carriageway was, after all, closed.
It's not often I get a chance to peacefully photograph this sort of thing.

[Herned]

Wait for the first person to trip on the kerb, break a leg and the letter from an ambulance chasing lawyer to hit the mat.

Why would that be any more of an issue if the kerb splits a cycleway from a pedestrian path than a normal road/pavement? Kerbs are a pretty universal feature of streets... something like this is all that is needed

[crb11]

Wait for the first person to trip on the kerb, break a leg and the letter from an ambulance chasing lawyer to hit the mat.

Why would that be any more of an issue if the kerb splits a cycleway from a pedestrian path than a normal road/pavement? Kerbs are a pretty universal feature of streets... something like this is all that is needed

Bear in mind the cycle-only bit in that example is about as wide as a a typical shared-use path, so you're effectively needing to build an entire new pedestrian section alongside existing paths. Plus modify numerous junctions. All nice to have, but overkill for most locations where things work fine provided there's a bit of consideration on both sides.

[Big L]

I don't know why for roundabouts like that we never build subways....

We dont build subways because "people dont like them".

[Herned]

We dont build subways because "people dont like them".

But that is understandable when they are horrible urban ones with corners for neer do wells to hide in. Straight short ones where you can see through to the other side don't have the same issues