Gallery: MCL obstruction
Obstruction of mandatory cycle lanes (MCL). Cars invading, blocking or parking in MCL and bus and cycle lanes.
The Highway Code [140] stipulates Cycle lanes as: "These are shown by road markings and signs. You MUST NOT drive or park in a cycle lane marked by a solid white line during its times of operation. Do not drive or park in a cycle lane marked by a broken white line unless it is unavoidable. You MUST NOT park in any cycle lane whilst waiting restrictions apply." [Law RTRA sects 5 & 8].
Penalty code N065: Fail to conform to a traffic sign, namely a bus lane or contravening Route for buses/pedal cycles. Refers to laws S 36 RTA 88 Reg 19 TSGD Regs 02 & Sch 2 RTOA 88.
Penalty code N092: No Waiting. Refers to laws S5(1) S8(1), S52(5) RTRA 84.
See also http://www.camcycle.org.uk/campaigning/issues/mcls/
This gallery was created on Tuesday, 20th April 2010
Okay, arguably there COULD be an exclusion here under the '88 RTA. But it's unlikely and not as if there are better places close by. Stopping or Parking in Cycle Lanes Highway Code Rule 240 (backed up in law) You MUST NOT stop or park ... [more]
Upper Hills Road by night. Police car ( AE06 TTY ) stationary in MCL is overtaken by "invisible" (no lights) cyclist.
Cambridgeshire Police Scientific Support unit parked in a mandatory cycle lane (MCL). Officer had just returned to the car to fill in forms. There was plenty of space (see #19172) to park the car with number plates AF52 VMO without blocking ... [more]
Cambridgeshire Police Scientific Support unit (see #19173) parked in a mandatory cycle lane (MCL). Officer had just returned to the car to fill in forms. There was plenty of space to park the car with number plates AF52 VMO without blockin ... [more]
Cambridgeshire Police Scientific Support unit parked in a mandatory cycle lane (MCL). Officer had just returned to the car to fill in forms. There was plenty of space to park the car (see #19172) with number plates AF52 VMO without blocking ... [more]
Police van blocks contraflow cycle lane on Downing St. whilst officers attend Revolution Bar. Time 09:15
Police vehicle obstructing mandatory cycle lane during house to house enquiries. Number plates EF06 ATO.
Yet again, a St Andrews Bureau property management van blocking the Bateman St contraflow lane and forcing cyclists into the path of oncoming traffic.
Car reg S57 LM0 blocking the cycle lanes that bypass the traffic calming outside Coleridge College. This has been an ongoing issue since the traffic calming was installed. It takes just one selfish individual to put at risk the thousands of ... [more]
Another van that considers the cycle lane on East Road by the new fire station development is a loading lane. Driver refused to move.
Downing St, Cambridge, 10 mins ago. Dangerous, @BOConline @camcycle ? That's a contraflow cycle lane there. http://t.co/DgjsgcQXoM
A local property management company really should know better than to cross the solid white line into a contraflow cycle lane.
See #49228 for the taxi blocking the westbound cycle lane ... And meanwhile, looking in the opposite direction, this range rover chooses to ignore the stop line (as so many drivers do) and pulls forward. He is blocking the entrance to the C ... [more]
Taxi AE56 EAY parked in and completely blocking the cycle lane right outside the entrance to Coleridge College. A daily sight that puts young lives at risk, every school day of the year. Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the road, a Ran ... [more]
A black Audi convertible with number plates MX10 XEM is often parked overnight half on the pavement and blocking the MCL on Chesterton Road. Here on a Sunday at lunch time. See also #48783.
A black Audi convertible with number plates MX10 XEM is parked half on the pavement and blocking the MCL on Chesterton Road on a Sunday at lunch time. See also #48784.
Cyclists forced into path of oncoming traffic by builders parked in the mandatory contraflow cycle lane.
Builders seem to think that this sign allows them to block the footway and mandatory contraflow cycle lane for days on end (still there on Tuesday 19/3/13).
Whenever I travel down Radegund Road around 9am there is a car obstructing the cycle bypass lanes to the traffic calming outside Coleridge College. This driver became aggressive when she saw me taking a photo. She reversed at me, and th ... [more]
It's illegal, causes injury and death. And there's space nearby elsewhere. Why do some car drivers do this, blind to the issues they cause?
See clip at http://youtu.be/Gw2285_C0UI Highway Code Rule 240 (backed up in law) You MUST NOT stop or park on a tram or cycle lane. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860 Also, parking on a Zig Zag is ... [more]
Taxi stopped (no driver present) blocking mandatory cycle lane rather than stopping in the bus layby. It's alright, the hazard lights are on....
Vehicle delivering to car showroom on Milton Road, Cambridge is obstructing boxed junction, cycle lane and bus lane.
See clip at http://youtu.be/Rb5Pz_J-o4o At this pinch point there's a side lane for people cycling. This taxi driver decides that it's a parking space and blocks it completely. In the usual fashion there's a space to stop off-road and of ... [more]
White van blocking the contraflow cycle lane, even though there's a legit parking space across the road.
P855HAV parked in the mandatory cycle lane outside the King's Hedges Road post office. People regularly park here to use the post office. There is a parking bay opposite, and space on the forecourt of the post office itself.
Viridor Recycling breaking the law and endangering road users by parking their van illegally and unsafely in the contraflow cycle lane.
No video with this. I've stopped my car to take the picture (with no traffic behind me). Needless to say, but completely illegal parking which the police are keen to prosecute with repeated evidence. The simple rule is Highway Code Ru ... [more]
No video with this. I've stopped my car to take the picture (with no traffic behind me). Needless to say, but completely illegal parking which the police are keen to prosecute with repeated evidence. The simple rule is Highway Code Ru ... [more]
See full video of Bateman Street at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6fQcSLpGs This is what happens at school turnout in Bateman Street. In some ways it's a good example of what happens when so much traffic gets together and shares ro ... [more]
HRP (refrigeration / air conditioning equipment) van illegally blocking this heavily-used cycle lane
Parcelforce van LK08 EPO parked in the Regent Street southbound mandatory cycle lane, Cambridge. Anyone who knows this part of town knows that there's a loading bay to the photographer's right and, on this occasion, the loading bay was empt ... [more]
V493 LHR parked (note: no driver) half in a mandatory cycle lane on Kings Hedges Road, Cambridge and half on said road's pavement. Location approximate.
Since building work started at Coleridge College, selfish parents have taken to using the mandatory cycle lanes that bypass the chicane / speed cushion as a place to park. Here car reg NA06WWL at 9am on 4/2/11. The people most at risk ... [more]
Cambridge Blue Sandwiches van unloading illegally and inconsiderately. No wonder Cambridgeshire County Council spends £3m on repairing pavements due to people driving on them. (Driving on pavements is an offence.)
Driver of white van AM04 BVG thinks it's ok to cross a solid white lane and block the contraflow cycle lane.
T373 KNW parked in the Bateman Street contraflow cycle lane. Also the K on that number plate is bothering my perfectionism; has it been doctored? Location approximate.
EA52 YSU parked in the contraflow cycle lane at the eastern end of Bateman Street. Note how that single yellow line ends in line with the traffic island; could the restriction not start a few metres further east of the island? I've also had ... [more]
Articulated lorry in mandatory cycle lane Maids Causeway, Cambridge. Possibly delivering to former Cambridge Regional College site on Newmarket Road.
Lorries collecting spoil from the former Cambridge Regional College site on Newmarket Road, Cambridge were parked in the mandatory cycle lane.
How many laws can you break at once? Cambridge Steak House unload on cycle lane, 1m from ped crossing, in yellow-dashes area (loading bay 15m away)
HV07 FPA, of the Saint Andrews Bureau; vehicle parked illegally… half on kerb, half in contraflow mandatory cycle lane.
Yet another dodgy delivery to The Revolution - WP56 ANU delivering meat and forcing cyclists onto the footway (meanwhile the beer lorry was around the corner as required).
AK10 WJD parked in the contraflow lane on Corn Exchange Street; engine off. "Did you just take a picture of my car?", like that's unlawful or something—thereafter, it all unfolded. The driver didn't see what she was doing wrong but thankf ... [more]
Alliance van unloading illegally in the cycle lane in Pembroke Street. See also photos #23898 and #23899
Alliance van unloading illegally in the cycle lane in Pembroke Street. See also photos #23898 and #23900
Alliance van unloading illegally in the cycle lane in Pembroke Street. See also photos #23899 and #23900
Mandatory cycle lane on Regent Street. Delivery van BU56 ZCK blocking the lane right before a traffic light.
AV03 SXR parked-up and dealing with matters most probably important. Any inexperienced cyclist could easily get injured overtaking here, especially as that pedestrian crossing is island'd.
Two cars blocking the Milton Road bus and cycle lane. silver BMW 3-series T387 HTR, was reported as incident CC-19062010-0444 and fined £30!
Three cars blocking the Milton Road bus and cycle, including T387 HTR, a silver BMW 3-series. A cyclists has to pull out into the carriageway while three cars try to overtake with insufficient space.
Three cars blocking the Milton Road bus and cycle, including S384 CPB, a green Mercedes C-class. Two cyclists have to pull out into the carriageway, while a compact car marginally passes the centre line.
Red Citroen Picasso with number plates YH03 XAX and a silver Skoda Fabia blocking the bus and cycle lane on Milton Road right at a bus stop, while a young cyclist has to pull out into the main carriageway. All this is happening because the ... [more]
Three cars blocking a bus and cycle lane near a bus stop on Milton Road. Among them the regular Citroen Picasso with number plates AY52 KZH and a red car AG59 LJZ.
(Apologies for the severe slant.) P760 JMC stopped and possibly unloading in the Milton Road southbound MCL. On the right, one can just about make out the right-turning lane into Downhams Lane and the pathetic shared-use "cycleway" just in ... [more]
LG08 HPJ parked in an MCL on Milton Road; north of the Golden Hind junction. I expect better from BT …and the owners of the properties being inspected.
Cars belonging to horse owners parked on, and completely blocking in the case of the far one, the new Horningsea to Cambridge foot/cycle path leaving cyclists little choice but to drop onto the road into the path on oncoming traffic. Why t ... [more]
Citroen Picasso AY52 KZH is another frequent user of the Milton Road bus and cycle. Reported to Cambridgeshire Police as incident CC-07062010-0560 and reference to the previous incident CC-03062010-0458 - photo #23120
Citroen Picasso AY52 KZH is another frequent user of the Milton Road bus and cycle. Reported to Cambridgeshire Police as incident CC-07062010-0560 and reference to the previous incident CC-03062010-0458 - photo #23120
Third afternoon in a row T387 HTR is blocking the Cycle and Bus Lane right before a bus stop on Milton Road. Bus schedule at the top of the photo. TXT response from police: "Good Evening, this is Cambridgeshire Police. Thank you for reporti ... [more]
Third afternoon in a row T387 HTR is blocking the Cycle and Bus Lane right before a bus stop on Milton Road. Bus schedule at the top of the photo. TXT response regarding incident CC-03062010-0458 from the police: "Good Evening, this is Camb ... [more]
Third afternoon in a row BMW T387 HTR is blocking the Cycle and Bus Lane right before a bus stop on Milton Road. This means that buses can't use the bay and can't even get close to the kerb. It also signals to visitors of the shops that it ... [more]
PMS Cambridge Ltd with number plates RE02 COH parked in the Mandatory Cycle Lane on Milton Road northbound, just before the entrance to the Westbrook Centre. There were legal parking spaces available on the opposite side of the road.
This bus and cycle lane on Milton Road near Mitcham's Corner, opposite the access road to the Westbrook Centre is frequently blocked by cars, here two, that force snaking cyclists into the main carriage way in front of cars going at around ... [more]
BMW with number plates T387 HTR does park regularly in the bus & cycle lane opposite the Westbrook Centre access road. See. also #23289.
This bus and cycle lane on Milton Road near Mitcham's Corner, opposite the access road to the Westbrook Centre is frequently blocked by cars, here two (inc. regular BMW T387 HTR), that force snaking cyclists into the main carriage way in fr ... [more]
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