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Email: info@southwarkcyclists.org.uk
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Parking rules for
Cycle Lanes and Tracks |
Parking rules for Cycle Lanes and Tracks- Jan 2005Diagrams that explain the rules are available on the London Cycle Network website. Click About Lanes and Facilities on the left menu. Cycle Track.
This has green coloured tarmac.
Loading and Unloading are NOT allowed, as clearly is therefore parking.
A cycle track is part of the highway for use only by pedal cycles.
A Parking attendant can Issue a PCN (Penalty Charge Notice) under contravention code 49, with a J suffix if enforced by a camera.
Cycle Lane.
This has red coloured tarmac.
A cycle track is not a cycle lane.
A cycle lane is part of the carriageway and is marked by a white line and cycle logos.
Parking in a Mandatory (with yellow lines) cycle lane is a contravention under PCN Codes 01 or 02.
Parking in an advisory cycle lane (with no yellow lines) is not a contravention.
Contravention code 49 applies.
Contravention codes 01 and 02 are the parked and unloading contraventions on a yellow line. An advisory cycle lane can be distinguished from a mandatory lane by the line hatching - an advisory lane has to have a broken white line outside as vehicles are allowed into the lane - either to cross it at a junction or to wait, with a single yellow line. A mandatory cycle lane has to have
a solid white line on the outside to indicate that no vehicles are allowed
into it, excluding emergencies.
Examples
So if a vehicle was is in a red coloured area it had up to 20 minutes(single yellow), 5 minutes(double yellow), observed loading to stay there if there were no kerb markings, indicating a loading/unloading restriction in force. It could stay there all day if there were no yellow lines.
If a vehicle is parked on a Pavement, either within a cycle lane (red), or otherwise, then it can have a PCN issued under contravention code 62 (Vehicle) or 61 (HGV), suffixed by:-
1 – One wheel on the footway 2 – Two wheels on the footway 4 – Four wheels on the footway And others that do not apply to cycle lanes.
The contravention is defined as:- “Any vehicle parked wholly or partly on the footway unless signs are present stating that this is allowed”
Parking on a footway (62) is considered more serious than a contravention 49 (Cycle path/lane). However, the penalty is the same!
This is not an authourative statement of The Road Traffic Act, it is taken from Training notes for Parking Attendants, and covers the basic criteria a Parking Attendant would be taught during initial training.
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 Advisory cycle lane Walworth Road 2004 |