Spurling road contra flow cycle route

[Only me!]

Yep.

As you enter the road from Crawthrew, you have two no entry signs in front of you, so you have to turn right & on each side of the road are clear signs that it is a one way street.

There is nothing to hint that a bike may be coming towards you.

Is that normal? A one way street in which two way traffic is legal.

Seems odd.

[Applespider]

Sure they will get round to putting up signage; they usually do a little after they've painted the cycles on the carriageway. At the very least, they'll put a 'Except cycles' under a no entry sign but they'll often put up a sign that illustrates the contraflow showing the bike coming the other way. It seems to work reasonably well in other streets - aside perhaps from Melford Road where the parked cars on either make it a little bit of a lottery to choose to cycle against the main traffic!

Only Me! I believe Sustrans are campaigning for all new one-way layouts to be designed so that they are two-way for cycles.

[nunhead_man]

Really? I'll have to check tho' I'm sure you re correct

And no there is nothing to warn motorists - I'm VERY careful as I make the left turn out of Spurling onto Crawthew

Roll on proper signage!

Only me! Wrote:

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> Yep.

> As you enter the road from Crawthrew, you have two

> no entry signs in front of you, so you have to

> turn right & on each side of the road are clear

> signs that it is a one way street.

> There is nothing to hint that a bike may be coming

> towards you.

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[worldwiser]

Is this what all the cones and temporary signs that have gone up today around Crawthew Grove/Spurling Road are about? They put a sign on my car today saying 'marking to be installed on 21/3 or we'll move your car'. Thanks for approximately zero days notice whatsoever.

[ianr]

I'll mosey on down there tomorrow to have a look. I hope whatever is being done is handled more efficiently than seemed the case in 2010, when they installed planning notices and road markings for a cycle contraflow in Bellenden Road, only to eventually remove them all. See the second page of the forum thread about it here: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,549542,564166#msg-564166

[the-e-dealer]

You should indicate when you are about to leave which is obviously a left turn.

bluecanary Wrote:

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> As a driver and a pedestrian I wish drivers would

> use their indicators full stop. Some drivers do

> use them but leave it until after they have

> started to make the turn, no point then mate, I

> can see what you're doing now. You're supposed to

> indicate your intentions, not state the blooming

> obvious! And breathe!!