To think you can't paint give ways lines on the pavement

[ifIwerenotanandroid]

I swear I saw this while a passenger in a car today. The pavement now has bollards with signs for a human & a cycle on each one, so presumably it's for both. When the pavement got to a road junction, there was a freshly-painted triangle & set of give way lines on the pavement.

Presumably this means the new rule of 'cars must give way to pedestrians & cyclists when entering or leaving side roads' has been reversed here - but only on one side of the road, because there were no such markings on the other pavement.

Has anyone come across this? It's in a local authority area in which the highways department has historically been somewhat creative in its use of road markings, hence my feeling that it's not normal usage.

Our nearest cycle path has give way markings when it reaches some side roads (but I think not all). The place I can think of where I know there are markings is a side road where a driver coming along the side road would not be able to see a cyclist approaching along the cycle path. The driver would obviously expect to stop at the end of the side road, but unless they were aware of the cycle path, would not expect a cyclist to hurtle across at full speed from pavement to pavement, before the end of the road. So it makes sense to have a marking which causes cyclists to at least slow down to check they're not going to be run over before crossing the side road.

Is this the scenario you are talking about. The thick orange line being the shared pavment?

I know car drivers should now give way to pedestrians following the line and crossing the side road, is it cyclists too? Can you share the highway code that says cyclists in this scenario?

Hi @Blanketpolicy was that for me or the other PP?

I don't know what the HC says about it, I was only going on a vague recollection from the introduction of the 'hierarchy of vulnerability' (which seemed to me to be no such thing, in the way it was used & spoken about).

I'm cynical about the whole thing, & this painting on the pavement seemed to be another badly-thought out part of the problem. I can see problems with it, for all concerned. Tomorrow I'll try to draw a diagram (arboriculturalists permitting); but yours is the basis of what I saw.

I tried to look for it and could only see cars have to give way to pedestrians in that scenario. If that is the case it would make absolute sense that give way marking were put there to remind/warn cyclists.

Nearly all the shared use paths near me have give way markings painted on them like you describe.