AQW 4862/22-27

Ms Connie Egan
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 18/10/2022
Answered On Date: 28/10/2022
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure what power his Department has to address parking on, and obstruction of, cycle lanes.

Answer:

The Traffic Management (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 gives my Department the power to issue Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) when a vehicle is detected parked on a legislated Mandatory Cycle Lane. These are cycle lanes which are part of the carriageway (road) and are identified by a solid white line or by a raised traffic island.

Advisory Cycle Lanes, which are identified by a broken white line, cycle tracks on footways or those separate from the carriageway, are not generally enforceable by a Traffic Attendant unless there are parking restrictions marked on the carriageway, for example yellow lines, as these would also apply to the cycle lane, track or footway.

Vehicles parked causing an obstruction, where no parking restrictions are marked on the carriageway, are a matter for the PSNI.