Max Power Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 I forsee serious accidents as cyclists and buses pile into cars changing lanes. Another fine mess they've got us into! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 Not to mention the length of the queue backing up the road! And the prom is one way, Northbound, absolutely thick whoever came up with this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Newbie Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Just moronic. Not being funny but that lay by is bloody massive couldn’t they have taken a few feet off that rather than take half the road away, or is that still needed so that people can’t sell their second hand cars on the worlds widest pavement? It’s soooo stupid it actually defies description. Surely big parts of the lay by should be the cycle lane? DOI are just retards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoymouse Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 I’ve just posted this in another thread so I shall repost here : Looking at it I’d say it’s been thought with buses in mind as the majority of them turn left towards town and a cycle lane was simply a token gesture. Buses have always struggled getting passed other HGVs waiting to go down Bray Hill/Turning right, quite often scrubbing the kerb and still very nearly clashing mirrors, I doubt buses alone would have been a good enough reason to go meddling. Ironically because they’ve now narrowed one lane to widen the other it’s just moved the problem, now HGVs turning left from Ballanard Rd heading towards the grandstand have a nice little challenge instead, hopefully they’ve trimmed the trees and hedges along the cemetery wall to at least remove part of the problem. For the first new week this will cause chaos and I expect many people will ignore it, but eventually people will adapt and overcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 It's not a 'Lay By', it's a Bus Lane from the Grandstand to St Ninians corner, with about 30 meters of filter for those wishing to go down Ballanard, when, of course, they can get into the left hand lane to do so!!! Cluster, dept, fuck, infrastrucure........ re arrange to suit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Saw it this morning, just as the paint was drying cars were driving down it to the traffic lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 It's not only a Bus Lane, it's a Buses ONLY lane? So you can't even use it when there aren't any buses in it!!! One for Jason Moorehouse??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbnuts Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Wonder has anyone from DOI produced a survey to justify this ? How many cycles go down that road daily !!?? Maybe a few start of day and a few end of working day but rest of the time ? Imbeciles , good old DOI never lets us down . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 My MHKs are Robertshaw and Barber, they should ask for this to be removed straight away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 It's Harmers last act as a massive fuck you for not supporting him well enough and laughing at him while at the DoI. Goodness knows what he's going to do in P&R, but you'd all better behave yourselves. Take this as a warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Surveys and consultations were Chris Thomas' domain, so he will be working on.................................Oh! No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 You can't incorporate a cycle lane unless the whole layout has been designed from scratch to do so. It isn't. It's the original road and width that was already struggling to accommodate three traffic lanes. It's yet another DOI fashion fetish, sticking plaster bodge to accommodate a handful of apparently non-existent commuter cyclists. Where are they all on the Peel Road cycle lane? Or Lezayre Rd Ramsey? When are DOI going to realise that a) there's no realistic demand and b) that even if that demand does arise, the job and layout needs to be done properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Newbie Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 1 minute ago, Non-Believer said: When are DOI going to realise that a) there's no realistic demand and b) that even if that demand does arise, the job and layout needs to be done properly? Never. They are so thoroughly incompetent I doubt any of them even live in the real world anymore. You get the impression that someone must turn up completely off their head. Drink a bottle of neat scotch and whatever garbage comes out of their brain in such an addled state is what they get to implement. It can’t work any other way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 14 minutes ago, Non-Believer said: Where are they all This afternoon they were all on the Braaid, St Marks, Ballasalla, Ballafesson road getting in MY way!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevster Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Is it a permanent bus lane? With the prom being one way the buses from Onchan that normally go down Royal Avenue will be going along there, so more bus traffic than normal. Sorry if that sounds like a sensible reason for it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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