On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 11:15 +0100, Andrew Chadwick wrote: > On 21/05/12 19:10, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > We use "opposite" to indicate that cycles can travel against the > flow of > > traffic on a one-way street, but on a two-way street you would use > > cycleway:right=lane to signify that there is a cycle lane in the > > opposite direction to how the road is drawn in OSM. > > If you're looking for a more common term, they're often referred to as > "contra-flow cycle lanes". They're relatively important to > distinguish, > and need special infrastructure at the ends, so it's not as silly as > it > sounds to make this distinction.
They don't always require infrastructure or even road markings: http://www.dft.gov.uk/adobepdf/165240/244921/244924/TAL_6-98/ There are certainly several in Cambridge that are pretty indistinguishable on the ground. cheers, Henry _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
