White Lines on the Middle of the Road

[Anne Marie]

Lets hope the greens do something about the white lines in the middle of the road. A friend came off her motorcycle due to slippage on these dreadful lines.

[johnfás]

Lets hope the greens do something about the white lines in the middle of the road. A friend came off her motorcycle due to slippage on these dreadful lines.

Yea I find the double yellows very slippy under my bicycle wheels.

On an aside, I also find the poor quality of cycle lanes very annoying and also that people seem to be allowed to park in them with no punishment.

[CookieMonster]

[quote=johnfás]

Lets hope the greens do something about the white lines in the middle of the road. A friend came off her motorcycle due to slippage on these dreadful lines.

Yea I find the double yellows very slippy under my bicycle wheels.

On an aside, I also find the poor quality of cycle lanes very annoying and also that people seem to be allowed to park in them with no punishment.[/quote:2ddq1f84]

What do you think handlebars are for?

[locke]

Never mind that things like traffic light poles are put in the middle of the ones that are up on pavements.

We really don't know how to create cycle lanes...

[paddyempowered]

A cycle lane was provided on a new stretch of road near me recently. Unfortunately it ends up running straight into a ditch on both ends as it meets the old road. I have yet to see anyone cycling on it. But the County Council will still figure it into their '*metres of Cycle lanes provided for' statistic...

[TheBear]

<Mod>Moved to Transport.</Mod>

[cyberianpan]

Lets hope the greens do something about the white lines in the middle of the road. A friend came off her motorcycle due to slippage on these dreadful lines.

If they were solid : fairly certain your friend oughtn't have been driving on the white lines.

If they were dashed: your friend oughta gone between them.

White lines do more good than harm.

cYp

[johnfás]

Lets hope the greens do something about the white lines in the middle of the road. A friend came off her motorcycle due to slippage on these dreadful lines.

If they were solid : fairly certain your friend oughtn't have been driving on the white lines.

If they were dashed: your friend oughta gone between them.

White lines do more good than harm.

cYp

Say the average dashed white line is 1metre and then there is a 1 metre gap between it and the next. If you are overtaking, how do you propose that you cross said lines without your wheel touching them? Travelling at 50km/h this would be some task given that you are travelling at 13 metres per second. It would be some task to cross such dashed lines in between them.

[cyberianpan]

[quote=johnfás]

Lets hope the greens do something about the white lines in the middle of the road. A friend came off her motorcycle due to slippage on these dreadful lines.

If they were solid : fairly certain your friend oughtn't have been driving on the white lines.

If they were dashed: your friend oughta gone between them.

White lines do more good than harm.

cYp

Say the average dashed white line is 1metre and then there is a 1 metre gap between it and the next. If you are overtaking, how do you propose that you cross said lines without your wheel touching them? Travelling at 50km/h this would be some task given that you are travelling at 13 metres per second. It would be some task to cross such dashed lines in between them.[/quote:1ktf7qwd]


Well we don't have '000's of motor bike folk slaughtered every week so I imagine some accomplish this - but yes in regard of a motor bike crossing a road at speed white lines are a danger - overall they are a good.

cYp

[David Cochrane]

What was your friend doing in the MIDDLE of the road? Those markings are to keep you on the left side.