I for sure don't cycle as much as you, Ellie, but I welcome the cycle lanes despite their often whimsical or even barmy incompleteness and nincompoopness. At least there's a visible reminder to drivers that we are sharing the roads!
They definitely need to be better designed and not just start in one place and suddenly pick up somewhere else. I sometimes wonder if the planner who designed them has a too keen sense of the absurd and is having a little joke for themselves.
One word was going through my head reading your whole well-researched article; 'Education'. So, totally agree with you there. I remember visiting a friend in Ghent and renting bikes and discovering cycle paths with their very own traffic lights and traffic flow and hundreds of people knowing exactly what to do. I was never so bewildered and we soon gave up and just walked.
Great and well researched and considered article with positive assessments of what could be done to make the roads safer for everyone (outside of cars. Enforcement is a priority and bad parking, speeding and light breaking needs more tech, cameras with following action.
Great article, makes a lot of sense and raises many issues that won’t be solved by infrastructure changes
I for sure don't cycle as much as you, Ellie, but I welcome the cycle lanes despite their often whimsical or even barmy incompleteness and nincompoopness. At least there's a visible reminder to drivers that we are sharing the roads!
They definitely need to be better designed and not just start in one place and suddenly pick up somewhere else. I sometimes wonder if the planner who designed them has a too keen sense of the absurd and is having a little joke for themselves.
One word was going through my head reading your whole well-researched article; 'Education'. So, totally agree with you there. I remember visiting a friend in Ghent and renting bikes and discovering cycle paths with their very own traffic lights and traffic flow and hundreds of people knowing exactly what to do. I was never so bewildered and we soon gave up and just walked.
Great and well researched and considered article with positive assessments of what could be done to make the roads safer for everyone (outside of cars. Enforcement is a priority and bad parking, speeding and light breaking needs more tech, cameras with following action.