30.7.2007
Dooring zone bike lane considered harmful

In this clip you can see the problem with the bike lane on Coldham's
Lane (from Sainsbury's roundabout towards the railway).  Cyclists in
this lane are frequently too close to parked cars, blind T-junction
exits, etc.

The large lorry which you see overtake me came up behind me fairly
close and hooted at me.  I decided discretion was the better part of
valour and pulled over although of course that meant I had to nearly
stop to avoid being in the very uncomfortable gap you see at about
15.8s in the video.

Without the lane the pressure on cyclists to adopt an unsafe position
would be reduced.

(Apologies for the lack of footage from the rear camera - the
batteries died en-route and the recoverable part of the video didn't
include this incident.)

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31.7.2007
References to CCyC comments when lane painted

The Coordinator of the Cambridge Cycling Campaign has pointed out
that the Campaign objected to this lane in 2003 on exactly the same
grounds
  http://www.camcycle.org.uk/campaigning/letters/2003/#NA03009
but Councillors paid little regard
  http://www.camcycle.org.uk/jumpto/ajc2003june
leaving the Cycling Campaign to report about it in their Newsletter:
  http://www.camcycle.org.uk/newsletters/49/article4.html