Filtering Question

[raceboy]

When riding to work in the morning I usually come across a traffic jam on a road which is strictly speaking single carrageway but at rush hour becomes 2 close lanes of cars, the left and right hand sides of the road are seperated by a 1m wide 'no-mans land' and a bollard about every 100m, sometime the traffic isn't moving and there is very little traffic coming the other way, so after seeing a few other bikers do it I followed them around the 'wrong' side of the bollards
Now I know it's not a brilliant idea but is it a problem if you get seen by plod?
Same thing goes for riding in areas coned off but with nothing in them

[whoozit]

If the no-mans'-land is a hatched area bounded by broken lines, you're fine. If it's got solid lines around it it's the same penalty as overtaking on a solid white line. Going round a traffic island the wrong way is, IIRC, a 3-points-and-a-fine offence. However, I know that many London bikers say that if you're sensible about it (i.e. go round small islands not huge ped crossings, and do so cautiously and slowly) they haven't been stopped even when the police have been watching. I think that might depend on local Plod's sensibilities, though.

>> Edited by whoozit on Wednesday 25th June 17:44