Is this Plymouth's shortest cycle path?

“It's a warning to drivers that irresponsible cyclists are liable to join the carriageway without looking.”

“@wordwizard Unfortunately drivers are unable to consider anything or make decisions unless told to do so by signs and plenty of them.”

“there was recently a program that proved that drivers were more cautious driving on roads with fewer markings and paint distracting them”

“As a driver, I would have thought seeing a person on a bike would do more to warn that a cyclist was joining the road than yet another mysterious road marking. More and more road markings and signs just distract from actually watching for other motorists, cyclist and pedestrians.
BANG! "Oh sorry. I was too busy trying to work out what that silly splodge on the road meant to see your coming."”

“This is a job for Tudor Evans- road painter and all round profligate”

“PCC please note - - - - a cycle path is NOT a white line painted on the road!

I don't think that white line would offer much protection against a lorry, however long it was.”

“Brett Nicolle, CTC Cycling Development Officer, Plymouth
CTC, The National Cycling Charity"

Wow, good job”

“It's been there for about 3 years, they just painted it red. Looks sensible to me

Don't know if these will work:

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“This photograph is taken totally out of context of the highway infrastructure at this junction. The developer has essentially built a cyclists segregated left turn filter and this small marked 'build out' gives drivers warning to be aware of cyclists re-joining the lane from the left. Taking the cyclist off the carriageway before the roundabout onto a dedicated cycle path so they do not turn left with the traffic and back onto the next exiting carrigeway to continue their journey is a sensible approach. In my mind this is a good scheme that can only improve safety at this junction, particualrly in relation to left turning traffic collisions. The greatest number of cyclist fatalities happen at left turns. It is the first junction motorists encounter when exiting from the busy A38 onto a large mixed residential and industrial area, so there is high traffic flow and a high proprtion of large vehicles. It could be improved by having a sheltered build out instead of just road markings, giving the joining cyclist physical protection and then continuing on into a cycle lane if the road was widened to allow this and by 'squaring-off' the exits of the junction at Wolverwood Lane to slow turns into this exit, but it seems to be well implemented otherwise.

Taken as a whole scheme, this infrastructure represents a significant improvement for cyclists safety over a conventional roundabout layout.

Brett Nicolle, CTC Cycling Development Officer, Plymouth
CTC, The National Cycling Charity”

“I beleive this nonsense. This council, this country, this news network!

I tell you who I blame, that Veronica Corningstone!

It is quite clearly CYCLIST not CYCLELADY!”