Posted on 11/15/2025 8:45:51 PM PST by dennisw
Road lanes across the country are to become narrower to stop cars overtaking cyclists as part of a new war on motorists, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Official guidance quietly published last week on the Government's website states that the standard width of a road lane in Britain – which for almost 150 years has been 12ft – is no longer appropriate because of the safety risk posed to cyclists.
Instead, lanes on local roads should either shrink no more than 10ft 8in wide or expand to at least 12ft 10in. Critics say space constraints in towns and cities mean they are far more likely to shrink.
Narrower roads, the guidance says, would make it clearer to motorists 'there is not enough space to safely overtake cyclists', while also showing cyclists 'that they need to ride more centrally'.
The guidance, which was drawn up by Active Travel England (ATE), a Government agency, will be applied to billions of pounds of future road building schemes, the MoS has learnt. Local authorities which defy the recommendations could see reduced transport funding.
The move has angered motoring campaigners, who predict that it will dramatically worsen traffic jams on already clogged roads and provoke more conflict between drivers and cyclists.
Brian Gregory, policy director at the Alliance of British Drivers, said: 'If you slow everybody down to the speed of cycles on narrow roads that is a huge economic cost to the country in wasted time.
'The whole idea is just to make driving unpleasant instead of trying to get everybody to co-operate and work together to use roads safely. It's all about penalising motorists. It's completely stupid.'
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I can’t wait to see how this strategy backfires.
Rural roads too?? The cranks in UK will not be able to pull this off. The eco-cranks, the climate cranks, the neo-nitwit marxists and the trans whatevers
It's a "war" in which the only casualties are the people on two wheels.
Wow. The stupidity! Not only will more cyclists die, automobile collisions will will skyrocket.
But on the other hand, it makes sense, since the EuroElites want to kill off all the indigenous peasants anyway.
Anti-cars == Use government public transportation
Monty Python is no longer as ridiculous as present day Britain. lol
Weren’t careless bicyclists responsible for the death of Lawrence of Arabia? At least that’s the impression the movie gave me.
As long as it doesn’t upset their new overlords, the Muslims, the UK can pass anything.
What is it with those limeys? Why have they suddenly gotten stuck on stupid?
Switch to camels.
Spikes in the bike lanes would be so much cheaper and solve multiple problems.
I'm beginning to think that somebody should start analyzing the bread in the U.K.
This will have an even more adverse effect on public transportation. The larger vehicles will barely fit at all.
“What is it with those limeys? Why have they suddenly gotten stuck on stupid?”
My guess...
“Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
And weak men create hard times.” — G. Michael Hopf.
Western Europe, Australia and North America have had it too easy. They’ve become weak.
Wellp, if you won’t let me pass them, I guess I have to ram em.
That’d be good for the flailing British automobile industry...
Anticipate Muslim and African immigrants just running the cyclists down, leaving the authorities dumbstruck, unable to arrest them because "running over bicyclists and pedestrians is just part of their rich, unique culture."
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