The Government is trying to change the highway code to make you use cycle lanes

please write to your MP... 

If you go to the Cycle Touring Club, website it will generate a letter and send it via Email to your MP.

The full article can be found using the link below but in
summary
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>http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4303#polwizHC.
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>The
major problem is a proposed new rule telling cyclists to "use cycle

>routes when practicable and cycle facilities ... where they are
provided"
>(Rule 58).  If confirmed, this would open the way for driver's
insurance
>companies to seek to reduce the damages for any cyclists
injured by their
>clients, on the basis that the cyclist's failure to use
a nearby cycle
>facility (in accordance with the Highway Code)
represented "contributory
>negligence".