Quote Originally Posted by uk elephant
Cars here are not keen on letting bikes past, even in the bike lane and will pull over as far left as they possibly can so that even bikes have trouble slipping past in the bike lane.
I forgot you are in the UK, and thought, but if they pull over left, that gives the bikes more room! Ha! I would have a heck of a time remembering to ride on the left...for about a day, until I got it why all the cars were driving directly at me!

The bike lanes here are decent, although they sometimes disappear mid-block. This guy took up all of the bike lane, and half of the parking lane.

My favorite crazy ending point for a bike lane is on the hill up Roosevelt Rd, going west. The bike lane is about 1/3 of the way into traffic already, because there's a bus lane on the far right. As one ascends the hill, the bike lane gets narrower, and narrower, ending in a point. When you're supposed to...what? Start flying, like ET? I just cut into the bus lane and ride by the curb. It is wierd. I mean, who says, oh, yeah, we'll just have the bike lane END right here, leaving the cyclists out in the middle of traffic with busses on the right and cars on the left?!? Urban adventures! L.