2009/9/22 John Henderson <j...@talk21.com>: > > Bicycle lanes marked on roads are usually more than a suggestion. They > confer legal obligations. Some excerpts from the Australian Road Rules: > > "A driver (except the rider of a bicycle) must not drive in a > bicycle lane, unless the driver is permitted to drive in the > bicycle lane under this rule or rule 158." (rule 153) > > "The rider of a bicycle riding on a length of road with a > bicycle lane designed for bicycles travelling in the same > direction as the rider must ride in the bicycle lane unless it is > impracticable to do so." (rule 247) >
You're talking about bicycle lanes, we're not (at least I'm not, and it didn't sound like swanili was either). We are talking about roads with a big yellow bicycle painted in the middle of the road - not in a separate lane. They are certainly not designated as bicycle only, as there are no other lanes. These are bicycle routes, but on residential roads. See http://tinyurl.com/l4yx8t for an example in Google streetview. If you follow this route a few blocks further north, it does move to dedicated bicycle lanes, and then later into cycleways in a park. But at this point, these are just normal, low traffic residential roads that also happen to be part of a suggested bike route. The painted bicycles mark the route for cyclists, and warn other drivers to expect more cyclists than normal. Stephen _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
