Blue lines

G & T · Post by **G & T** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:28 pm

Can anyone explain what the blue lines on the roads around Lagoa & Ferragudo are for? Have asked around but nobody knows.

Jaylay · Post by **Jaylay** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:59 am

Read an article about them, it seems they will go across the whole of the Algarve and shows the route to walk or cycle the whole Algarve where there is the least traffic.
Believe this is meant to be part of an European thing, but at present only seen them in Lagoa, but sounds as other ares will join soon. Good ifyou manufacture/sell blue paint

G & T · Post by **G & T** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:14 pm

Jaylay wrote:Read an article about them, it seems they will go across the whole of the Algarve and shows the route to walk or cycle the whole Algarve where there is the least traffic.
Believe this is meant to be part of an European thing, but at present only seen them in Lagoa, but sounds as other ares will join soon. Good ifyou manufacture/sell blue paint

Thanks Jaylay now I can sleep better, yet another nutty euro idea you wonder who thinks of them!

tbbr · Post by **tbbr** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:44 pm

They can also be seen in ALbufeira and all major towns to the east.

logicbob · Post by **logicbob** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:21 pm

Try this:

http://portugalresident.com/portugalres ... p?ID=22160

eco/spider · Post by **eco/spider** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:15 pm

Cant see anything nutty in providing safe walking and cycling areas and with the rising price of petrol maybe it wont be long before we are all on our bikes or shanks pony

blue · Post by **blue** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:27 pm

Nothing safe about these blue line as far as I can see, they just seem to cut straight across road junctions. Believe me we're not talking about scandinavian style cycle lanes.

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:07 pm

Agree entirely blue. Took a trip over Ferragudo this afternoon, and there is no continuity with the blue lines, just bits and pieces. And they do take you over junctions where you don't have the right of way. Fortunately I don't think many people know what they are for anyway.

eco/spider · Post by **eco/spider** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:43 pm

You mean its a cockup there?

blue · Post by **blue** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:42 am

Well it is their national symbol.

april · Post by **april** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:04 am

Yes! We saw them in October and wondered what they were for.......and you're right, they don't seems to have any real sensible direction. They do go shooting off across main junctions and I'm sure one went straight into a kerb and up a wall!

Bruce Wallis · Post by **Bruce Wallis** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:08 pm

I saw some lovely blue lines leading off from the roundabout on the cutoff road from the Lagoa road out of CVO, leading to an ironwork factory. Im sure they were meant to show the back road to Rocha Brava, but ending where they did struck me as funny!

Lesley Jean · Post by **Lesley Jean** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:34 pm

Basically these lines are to help those on bikes to negotiate the beast route from one cycle path to another when you have to go onto the roads. We have part of the Algarve cycle way going past our house and onto the road which comes into Lagoa and the roundabout by the Faticil. These blue lines then take the cyclist around the roundabout and along the main road until it then joins up with the 'track' again the other side on Lagoa. This track then heads towards Ferragudo.