Lanes run between the kerb and the flow of traffic.
A new innovation is a special cyclists' box at junctions that runs across the whole lane, forcing drivers to wait while we wobble off unsteadily. With a quarter of a century in the saddle, man and boy, I can say that cycle lanes are no help to cyclists. Their real purpose is to snarl up the traffic. And that stops cyclists, too. The Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions is equally coy about the real reasons.