The blue line

'The cycle super highway'.....

If you hadn't have already seen the eyesore that is the 'cycle super highway', then you would be forgiven for thinking that it it some kind of elevated track from A to B that you merely place your wheels on and it transports you to 'B' from 'A' at breakneck speeds.
Well, that is the vision that I had anyway!

Let me disappoint you somewhat, the cycle highway is on ground level; along the same roads we have always had. In fact, it is in many places, the same cycle lane we always had. But now with an exciting difference........drumroll please.....
The exciting difference is, it is now blue in colour. Yes thats right, blue in colour. Unfortunately this amazing difference is lost on the colour blind cyclist, or the blind cyclist for that matter but I am sure their clever dogs can tell them what they are missing out on.
The said cycle highway is just basically a blue cycle lane all the way from Merton to the city, what a complete waste of time. It looks like cars and motorbikes can still use the same section anyway so all it really does is highlight when they get knocked off next.

So here I am slagging off the 'cycle super highway' and yet I have used it, I used it a few days ago, it wasn't any quicker of course but there was one fantastic outcome. I saw cyclists actually being pulled over and fined for going through red lights.
So after all that, the new Barclays blue cycle highway is such a bad thing after all.