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If you cycle in London, you'll know the capital's bike lanes can leave a lot to be desired.
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This one will take you from the bonnet of that Renault to the back door of that postman's van.
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This lane in East London sometimes turns into a personal canal when it rains.
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In London, bike lanes can also double has a handy parking space for cars.
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Sometimes a taxi-rank is thrown in for good measure, too.
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Camden managed to design a lane that orders cyclists to crash into each other.
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It seems like whatever designers try, nothing will keep cars out of bike lanes.
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When those designers aren't actively putting things in your way, that is.
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...often for apparently no reason.
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They give with one hand, and take away with the other.
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The guys who do the signs need to talk to the guys who do the bike lanes. I’m looking at you, Stratford.
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The designer of this lane at least understands that lampposts are solid objects.
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Everything has to make way for car parking.
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At least someone is enjoying this lane.
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Sometimes you wonder why they even bothered.
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And sometimes you really wish they hadn't bothered.
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Some designers seem to think blue paint will magically keep cyclists safe.
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Sometimes they won't even shell out for the blue stuff. This one's under a taxi.
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It often feels like the people designing these things have never ridden a bike before.
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And in a few cases? It seems like they've never SEEN a bike.
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Some lanes are so baffling you need an instruction booklet to make sense of them.
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But full marks to this one in Bethnal Green, which is filled with lampposts and parking ticket machines.