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Hills Road
Contrary to my previous understanding of the planned disruption in at least two ways, Hills Road is now one way southbound to motor traffic from OLEM all the way to Station Road (using the usually-northbound side of the road). There are also barriers placed to create a lane for northbound cycles.
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It seems like a foolish omission. A motor vehicle is considered "abnormal" if it's wider than 2.9 metres, so presumably that's the minimum width they have to leave anywhere that doesn't have width limit signs. Shouldn't they have some similar reference point for bikes?
Hmm!
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For street works, there's a rule (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1991/22/section/66) that undertakers must not obstruct the street "to a greater extent or for a longer period than is reasonably necessary", which suggests the existence of a general right to cause reasonably necessary obstructions. In this case, blocking all motor vehicles is apparently considered reasonable, and I don't think that blocking cycles over some width is likely to be any worse.
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Are they realy allowed to announce on signs that the road is still open for cyclicsts, only to trap cyclists in an impassable chicane a hundred yards later?
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In this case, I think the reasonableness requirement is enough -- it's reasonable to let the owners of abnormally-wide (say >1.5m wide) cycles fend for themselves, but if the lane is non-obviously narrow then the undertaker ought to place signs to indicate this.