[Talk-GB] Cycle lanes & cycle tracks - my findings and a proposal

[Henry Gomersall]

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 11:15 +0100, Andrew Chadwick wrote:
> On 21/05/12 19:10, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> > We use "opposite" to indicate that cycles can travel against the
> flow of
> > traffic on a one-way street, but on a two-way street you would use
> > cycleway:right=lane to signify that there is a cycle lane in the
> > opposite direction to how the road is drawn in OSM.
> 
> If you're looking for a more common term, they're often referred to as
> "contra-flow cycle lanes". They're relatively important to
> distinguish,
> and need special infrastructure at the ends, so it's not as silly as
> it
> sounds to make this distinction. 

They don't always require infrastructure or even road markings:
http://www.dft.gov.uk/adobepdf/165240/244921/244924/TAL_6-98/

There are certainly several in Cambridge that are pretty
indistinguishable on the ground.

cheers,
Henry