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Category: | Enforcement-related: Event or temporary issue |
Tags: | cambridge, chesterton, clips, cycling, ek02, ek02-ohx, ek02ohx, examples, herbert, infrastructure, ohx, parking, road, street, video |
Date time: | 1.00pm, Tuesday 4th March, 2014 |
Time line: | Earlier | Later |
Facing: | South east |
Added by: | radwagon |
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Area: | Cambridge |
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Stopping or Parking in Cycle Lanes
Highway Code Rule 240 (backed up in law)
You MUST NOT stop or park on a tram or cycle lane.
www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860
And the 1988 Road Traffic Act, section 21.
Any person who, without lawful authority, drives or parks a vehicle wholly or partly on a cycle track is guilty of an offence. Unless:
saving life, or extinguishing fire or meeting any other like emergency
maintaining of any structure or other work situated in the cycle track or its verges
undertaking work on water, sewerage electricity, gas, or telecomms network
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/21
Parking causing an Obstruction
Highway Code Rule 242 (backed up in law, RTA 1988, sect 22 & CUR reg 103)
You MUST NOT leave your vehicle or trailer in a dangerous position or where it causes any unnecessary obstruction of the road.
www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860
Highway Code Rule 243
DO NOT stop or park where you would obstruct cyclists’ use of cycle facilities except when forced to do so by stationary traffic.
www.gov.uk/waiting-and-parking/parking-239-to-247
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