The Worst Bike Lanes EVER!

Caption: Worst Bike Lane EVER! (Photo by Ian Bromsgrove)

Let me first start by saying I love the internets. It is a perfectly designed interface for the functional Attention Deficit Disordered, like me. I started out searching for yard signs, somehow found a miracle drug that will help halt my natural aging process, and finally settled on a website that chronicles the worst bicycle lanes/paths in Britain. It was an electronic game of "telephone" that spun me around like a top and left me dizzy with joy and just a hint of nausea.

No matter the starting point or the path I took to get there, my final destination needs to be shared with you and yours: The Warrington Cycle Campaign has been posting a picture per month, since 2001, of some of the greatest non-sense in traffic engineering Britain has to offer. The pictures serve as a testament to the contention that there is a big difference between GOOD bike/pedestrian planning and BAD bike/pedestrian planning. And the captions...as dry and sharp as week-old British bread.

The pictures and captions are good for a thousand laughs. They also serve as a sobering reminder that the safety of cyclists and pedestrians is at stake when facilities are poorly designed or built.

Check it out. Pass it to a friend. Laugh. Learn. And get yourself lost in the wonder that is the internets.

http://www.warringtoncyclecampaign.co.uk/facility-of-the-month

-Phil

Caption: Designated bike lane...just kidding. (Photo by Gareth Simpson)