Advance stop lines (asl's/ bike boxes) A WARNING!

[Slaninar]

New bike lane Bethnal Green Road

Here's a London cycle lane, which is typical of segregated cycle lanes around the country. If you cycle on the road then you have right of way when approaching side turns. However as shown in the video when on a segregated cycle lane the cyclist has to give way.

Segregated cycle lanes, in my experience, are there to keep cyclists off the road rather than to protect them.

In my country whenever a cycle lane crosses a road, the drivers are supposed to give way... which they seldom do unfortunately. For me, on a bicycle, it has been a lot safer riding on the road with traffic. However, by law, we are forced to use bicycle lanes/tracks when they exist by the road we are traveling... which is never enforced by cops.