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Lily
Guest
Hi all, I have not posted here before, although I often read the interesting
and informed debates that take place! The reason for my maiden post is to
seek advice.
The local council of my parents has put some proposals for cycle routes in
our town up for consultation. The general idea is to convert the quite wide
footpath along one side of a couple of busy urban roads into "shared use",
with a line down the middle so pedestrians use one half and cyclists use the
other. The paths cross many small, and a few large side roads on "raised
tables". At traffic light junctions they plan toucan crossings.
I wondered if anybody here can recommend authoritative research references,
and maybe propose some well reasoned arguments, to justify (or oppose) such
schemes. We already have a few such paths, and I cringe when I see kids
whizzing across the side road junctions, unprotected from turning traffic.
I'm sure these must be more dangerous than using the actual road itself, but
the council seem quite committed to creating them. Is there some UK based
research that anyone is aware of showing them to be safer (or more
dangerous)? I wonder why the council propose such ideas, presumably tey
must have full faith in them.
Regards,
Lily.
and informed debates that take place! The reason for my maiden post is to
seek advice.
The local council of my parents has put some proposals for cycle routes in
our town up for consultation. The general idea is to convert the quite wide
footpath along one side of a couple of busy urban roads into "shared use",
with a line down the middle so pedestrians use one half and cyclists use the
other. The paths cross many small, and a few large side roads on "raised
tables". At traffic light junctions they plan toucan crossings.
I wondered if anybody here can recommend authoritative research references,
and maybe propose some well reasoned arguments, to justify (or oppose) such
schemes. We already have a few such paths, and I cringe when I see kids
whizzing across the side road junctions, unprotected from turning traffic.
I'm sure these must be more dangerous than using the actual road itself, but
the council seem quite committed to creating them. Is there some UK based
research that anyone is aware of showing them to be safer (or more
dangerous)? I wonder why the council propose such ideas, presumably tey
must have full faith in them.
Regards,
Lily.