Cycle Routes - How Does This Sound To You?
If you were campaigning to improve the quality of local cycle infrastructure, is this the sort of thing that you’d be demanding?
- Make my journey a pleasant experience and not a daily struggle for space.
- Give me and other cyclists priority over motor traffic.
- Include sections free of motor traffic.
- Stop buses, lorries and cars passing too close and too fast.
- Keep my path free of parked cars and the danger of opening car doors.
- Enable me to cycle at the speed I prefer.
- Don’t force me to cross lanes of fast-moving traffic.
- Do away with hazardous or difficult one-way systems and roundabouts.
- Are continuous and don’t stop and start.
- Allow me to stop at red lights ahead of other traffic and move off first.
Yep - me too. And it’s the Superhighway Manifesto of the London Cycling Campaign .
I wonder if I can persuade North Tyneside Council to adopt this as their 20-year cycling strategy? All it seems to need is for the ten points above to be prefixed with some suitable vision thing phrase - something like
North Tyneside will have more people cycling than driving by 2030, through building cycling infrastructure that:
- Makes cycling journey a pleasant experience and not a daily struggle for space.
- Gives cyclists priority over motor traffic.
- Includes sections free of motor traffic.
- Stops buses, lorries and cars passing too close and too fast.
- Keeps cyclists’ paths free of parked cars and the danger of opening car doors.
- Enable people to cycle at the speeds they prefer, in safety.
- Doesn’t force cyclists to cross lanes of fast-moving traffic.
- Does away with hazardous or difficult one-way systems and roundabouts.
- Is continuous from journey start to end, and don’t itself stop and start.
- Allows people riding bikes to stop at red lights ahead of other traffic and move off first.
