This section lists issues - problems on the street network and related matters.
Issues always relate to some geographical location, whether very local or perhaps city-wide.
You can create a new issue using the button on the right.
Listed issues, most recent first:
Created by Matt Turner // 1 thread
The cycle route that runs past Electric Works has been blocked by big white wooden sheets, it looks like this is for development of some kind.
There is a parallel route (perhaps the official one?) on the footway (shared unsegregated) on Sheaf Street, but it's far too narrow to be acceptable for a cycle route to the train station.
A temporary bark chipping path from the obstruction down to Sheaf Street, but it's not suitable for cycling on.
Created by Dexter Johnstone // 1 thread
Road layout changes to Spital Hill. These changes were identified as potentially dangerous by Sheffield Council Cycle Audit, however, they are still going ahead.
CycleSheffield response to changes:
Commenting on the specifics of this design, which leaves the road fundamentally unsafe for cyclists, might be seen to condone it, so we will refrain. The minor changes represent no significant improvement for cyclists (existing or potential).
In summary: Spital Hill is the natural major cycle route connecting the Burngreave and Pitsmoor to the city centre. There is no convenient alternative.
Again this is an extremely busy road, with a complex junction. During rush hour, having to compete for lane spaces with 10 ton busses and numerous taxi cabs which will be switching lanes, is unpleasant and risky, and will in itself discourage inexperienced cyclists to start cycle commuting. In addition the proposed lane layouts are confusing to both motorists and cyclists which will lead to unpredictable road behaviour which is a further grave risk to cyclists in the traffic stream.
Both the traffic volumes and complexity of the junction make it unreasonable to expect people to share them for cycling.
The width of the streets (both Savile Street and A6135/Spital Hill) have ample room for the Council to provide protected space for cycling. It is disappointing that Sheffield City Council has not taken the opportunity to utilise this space to allow people in Sheffield to cycle safely and confidently in this area.
Created by Dexter Johnstone // 2 threads
Grey to Green scheme details:
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/planning-and-city-development/regeneration/grey-to-green.html
CycleSheffield response to Grey to Green scheme
http://www.cyclesheffield.org.uk/2015/06/06/pressure-from-cyclesheffield-supporters-leads-to-grey-to-green-funding-decision-being-deferred/
We were told that there wasn't enough money to provide good cycle facilities as part of the Grey to Green scheme.
The council is now planning to use £225,000 of Sustainable Transport Exemplar Program (STEP) money to part fund the scheme.
STEP money is supposed to be for '‘improving cycling links and other sustainable transport links across the area’.
Created by Dexter Johnstone // 3 threads
£8.2million expansion of Meadowhall car park.
part funded by £1.45million of Sustainable Transport Exemplar Program (STEP) which is intended for ‘improving cycling links and other sustainable transport links across the area’.
This has been put back until 16/17 due to a delay with a funding bid.
Created by Dexter Johnstone // 1 thread
'The road is being widened so that parking can still take place but buses and other vehicles can travel along the road more easily. Construction to start February 2016.'
we have requested a cycle audit
Created by JasonColbeck // 2 threads
A Listed Building Consent planning application (15/04649/LBC) 'Alterations to the cycle hub to form new mezzanine floor to provide 140 additional cycle storage' has been submitted on behalf of East midlands Trains.
Application Received Date: Thu 24 Dec 2015
Application Validated Date: Wed 27 Jan 2016
Expiry Date: Thu 25 Feb 2016
Actual Committee Date: Not Available
Latest Neighbour Consultation Date: Wed 27 Jan 2016
Neighbour Consultation Expiry Date: Wed 17 Feb 2016
Standard Consultation Date: Wed 27 Jan 2016
Standard Consultation Expiry Date: Wed 10 Feb 2016
Last Advertised In Press Date: Thu 04 Feb 2016
Latest Advertisement Expiry Date: Thu 25 Feb 2016
Last Site Notice Posted Date: Not Available
Latest Site Notice Expiry Date: Not Available
Decision Made Date: Not Available
Decision Issued Date: Not Available
Permission Expiry Date: Not Available
Decision Printed Date: Not Available
Environmental Impact Assessment Received: Not Available
Target Determination Date: Wed 23 Mar 2016
Determination Deadline: Wed 23 Mar 2016
Created by Dexter Johnstone // 1 thread
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/roads/works/schemes/north-sheffield.html
Hucklow Road - Better Buses 'The road is being widened so that parking can still take place but buses and other vehicles can travel along the road more easily. Construction to start Summer 2016.'
We have requested the cycle audit for this scheme
Created by timlennon // 1 thread
Initial road discussions from Richmond Council
Created by timlennon // 1 thread
Initial proposal for consultation from Richmond Council.
Created by timlennon // 1 thread
Initial council proposal looks like routes through Bushy Park and outwards.
Quietway 1 proposal (Teddington to Wandsworth Common)
The attached image is the initial council drawing and is indicative.
Created by Simon Munk // 1 thread
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Waltham Forest council says:
Waltham Forest is changing and we want you to be part of it. Thanks to a funding pot of £27 million from Transport for London, we’re delivering the Mini-Holland Programme to make our streets fit for everyone to use, whether you walk, cycle, use public transport or drive.
In 2014, nearly 900 people were injured on our roads and air pollution in Waltham Forest is on the increase. At peak times of the day, we have up to 6,000 extra cars on our roads due to the school run. We need to do something about this so that everyone can get from A to B easily and safely.
The Mini-Holland Programme is about making our streets work for everyone and our borough a better place to live, work and visit. By creating designated space for cycling, creating routes that better connect our town centres and redesigning some of our public areas we want to help families get about safely, cut down unnecessary traffic outside your home and work with businesses so that people want to spend time in our borough and get the most out of this once in a lifetime opportunity.
How do I take part?
We want everyone who lives and works in the local area to have their say on the scheme design and help shape the proposals. To help manage the consultation and feedback we receive, we are asking you to rate and comment on groups of proposals rather than individual measures, and to tell us what else you would like to see.
Please read each proposal carefully, and tell us your thoughts on each one using the comment section at the bottom of each proposal page. Depending on how much you write, we expect the survey to take no more than 10 minutes to complete.
What’s planned in Leytonstone Town Centre?
We have four town centre schemes in the Mini-Holland Programme, one of which is Leytonstone. These schemes will better connect Chingford, Highams Park, Leyton and Leytonstone through key walking and cycling routes, making areas of the borough easier to get to for people who want to walk and cycle for local journeys. The town centre schemes will also improve the look and feel of these four key areas whilst linking in with the four Village schemes in Walthamstow, making them more enjoyable places to spend time and money, boosting business for our local economy and giving our residents a sense of pride in their borough.
The Leytonstone Town Centre scheme area has over 8,000 addresses and lots of people currently walk and cycle through it to get to the High Road, Leytonstone Underground Station, Leytonstone High Road Rail Station, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Hollow Ponds. We’re planning to make improvements so that if you choose to walk or cycle it’s easier for you to get about. For example, we know that Grove Green Road is a key cycling route through Leytonstone, so we’re planning to improve this by creating segregated areas, where possible, making it safer and easier for people who cycle and vehicles to share the road.
We’re also planning to install blended ‘Copenhagen’ style crossings on a series of side streets, which extend the pavement across the road, meaning vehicles need to give way to pedestrians and people on cycles. We recognise that there is a place for cars in our borough, but want to make our roads safer by creating junctions that encourage drivers to slow down and take extra care at key points. We’ll also be investing in new public spaces and improving how the area looks with plants and greenery, to encourage more people to spend their time and money in the area. The proposed design also includes a mix of road and traffic direction changes which are shown on the map below.
What has happened so far?
In June 2015, we sent a survey to all 8,000 addresses in the scheme area to understand your concerns and aspirations and what you want to see in your local area. Over 340 people responded, providing over 440 individual comments, which we analysed and used to shape the next stage of the plans.
This feedback helped create an early design which was presented to over 60 residents who attended our codesign workshops in September and October 2015. During these workshops local residents and businesses told us their views of the proposed design to help us make sure this scheme fits everyone’s needs. We have been speaking to key stakeholders (including the emergency services and schools) to make sure the design enables them to do their important work.
We will continue to engage with these groups as the scheme progresses through to final design and completion. We have also used information about traffic movements and traffic survey data to design a scheme that benefits all road users. More information about this design is detailed in these proposals and we are asking for your views on it.
What happens next?
All of the feedback received will be grouped, carefully analysed and used to shape the final design. Where there are elements of the scheme that are not well supported by residents and businesses, we will look at these again. Where it’s possible to make changes based on your comments and suggestions we will, and where we can’t we will explain why.
A summary of the results and feedback will be sent to everyone who took part after the public consultation stage has ended. This will set out the results and how they have been used to help shape the final design. This will also be available on the website for everyone to see.
Before we get to the design stage, Transport for London (TfL) will also need to approve the plans as the funders of the Mini-Holland Programme.
Created by Simon Munk // 1 thread
These pages are publicly viewable and for cyclists to discuss consultation responses. Always make sure you *also* respond to the public consultation at its site too!
Waltham Forest council says:
Waltham Forest is changing and we want you to be part of it. Thanks to a funding pot of £27 million from Transport for London, we’re delivering the Mini-Holland Programme to make our streets fit for everyone to use, whether you walk, cycle, use public transport or drive.
In 2014, nearly 900 people were injured on our roads and air pollution in Waltham Forest is on the increase. At peak times of the day, we have up to 6,000 extra cars on our roads due to the school run; we need to do something about it so that everyone can get from A to B safely.
The Mini-Holland Programme is about making our streets work for everyone and our borough a better place to live, work and visit. By creating designated space for cycling, creating routes that better connect our town centres and redesigning some of our public areas we want to help families get about safely, cut down unnecessary traffic outside your home, and work with businesses so that people want to spend time in our borough and get the most out of this once in a lifetime opportunity.
Giving your views on the proposed designs
We want everyone who lives and works in the local area to have their say on the scheme design and help shape the proposals.
To help manage the consultation and feedback we receive, we are asking you to rate and comment on groups of proposals rather than individual measures, and to tell us what else you would like to see.
The proposals for the Leyton Town Centre scheme include improving some of the public spaces with plants, trees and public art, changing the way vehicles access some roads to reduce unnecessary traffic outside people’s homes, new and improved crossings to help people who walk and cycle, traffic direction changes and road safety improvements.
As some of these changes are linked they need to be introduced together, so we have grouped them and are asking for your views by group or ‘series’ of proposals. For example, a new public space with plants, trees and seating may only be possible if access to a road is changed, making it open only to people walking and cycling.
Please read each proposal carefully, and tell us your thoughts on each one using the comment section at the bottom of each proposal page. Depending on how much you write, we expect the survey to take no more than 10 minutes to complete.
What’s planned in Leyton Town Centre?
We have four town centre schemes in the Mini-Holland Programme, one of which is Leyton. These schemes will better connect Leyton, Leytonstone, Chingford and Highams Park, making it easier for people to walk and cycle for local journeys with new and improved walking and cycling routes. The town centre schemes will also improve the look and feel of these key areas whilst linking in with the four Village schemes in Walthamstow, making them more enjoyable places, boosting business for our local economy and giving our residents a sense of pride in their borough.
The Leyton Town Centre scheme area includes over 11,000 addresses and people walk and cycle through it to get to Leyton Underground Station, Leyton Midland Road Rail Station, the Olympic Park, Westfield shopping centre as well as local shops and amenities.
We’re planning to make a range of improvements to the area, from reducing the amount of non-local traffic using local streets where residents like you live, to better walking and cycling routes to help you get around more easily and safely if you choose to walk or cycle. We’ll also be investing in new public spaces and improving how the area looks, with new plants and greenery, to encourage more people to spend their time in the area. The proposed design also includes a mix of road and traffic changes which are outlined on the map.
In June 2015, we sent a survey to all addresses in the scheme area to understand your concerns and how we can use this Mini-Holland funding to deliver what you want in your local area. Over 500 people took part, providing over 690 individual comments which we analysed and used to shape the next stage of the plans.
This feedback helped create an early design, which we presented to 41 residents as well as businesses that came to our co-design workshops in October 2015. During these workshops you told us what you thought of the proposed design, which has helped develop the scheme.
We have been speaking to key stakeholders, including the emergency services and schools, to make sure the design enables them to do their important work day to day. We will continue to engage with these groups as the scheme progresses through to final design and completion. We have also used information about traffic movements and traffic survey data to design a scheme that will benefit all road users. More information about this design is detailed in these proposals and we are asking for your views on it.
What happens next?
All of the feedback received will be grouped, carefully analysed and used to shape the final design.
Where there are elements of the scheme that are not well supported by residents and businesses, we will look at these again. Where it’s possible to make changes based on your comments and suggestions we will, and where we can’t we will explain why. A summary of the results and feedback will be sent to everyone who took part after the public consultation stage has ended. This will set out the results and how they have been used to help shape the final design. This will also be available on the website for everyone to see.
Before we get to the design stage, Transport for London (TfL) will also need to approve all of our plans as the funders of the Mini-Holland programme.
Created by Simon Munk // 1 thread
These pages are publicly viewable and for cyclists to discuss consultation responses. Always make sure you *also* respond to the public consultation at its site too!
Enfield council says:
This is a unique opportunity for Enfield to transform the look and feel of this vital local road for the benefit of the whole community, whether they cycle or not. It will improve the urban realm, slow and calm traffic in busy town centres and make conditions for cycling and pedestrians much safer. The scheme aims to encourage more people to walk and cycle, reducing the many short car journeys around our community. See details below for more information on the scheme.
Created by Cllr Ian Manning // 1 thread
The County appointed an officer back in June to review parking policy across the County, starting with the City.
Martin Lucas-Smith // 1 thread
The site of the former Howard Mallet centre, on St. Matthew's Piece, has been subject to a series of planning applications for change of use over the last 10 years.
It is important that any change of use adds proper cycle parking.
Created by Jean Dollimore // 1 thread
We have been asked to tell Camden Council what changes might be helpful to make Arlington Road more comfortable to cycle on.
The intention is to deliver it as part of the Cycle Grid by the end of April 2017.
We have asked for more details on traffic flows but an initial look seems to show that vehicle movements are significantly below 2000 per day on Arlington Road itself.
Created by Roxanne (Cycling Campaign Officer) // 1 thread
http://plan.scambs.gov.uk/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=S/3223/15/FL&theTabNo=3
42 low-energy cohousing dwellings plus ancillary facilities including a common house, workshop, car and cycle parking, refuse storage, relocation of an electricity substation, associated access and landscaping
Created by Hugh McClintock // 0 threads
Nottingham City Council have recently (January 2016) published a Supplementary Planning Document to guide the regeneration of the big Island site between the top of London Road and Manvers Street (Sneinton). The consultation documents includes some suggested cycle links.
Pedals has drafted a response to this, emphasising the need both for improved cycling provision within the site and connecting to and from it. We welcome comments on this before we finalise it before the deadline of 18 February:-
Draft of 19 Jan: for finalisation by 18 Feb
Nottingham City Council Island Site Draft Supplementary Planning Document consultation: response from Pedals (Nottingham Cycling Campaign), February 2016
Introduction
Pedals welcomes the recognition in this consultation document of the key importance of this site in sustainable transport terms, as well as the general recognition that priority should be given to the needs of people on foot and cycling. This means both upgrading and extending provision within the site and improving external links.
Given the increasing problems of poor air pollution in Nottingham (most of which derive from motor traffic), including on London Road and the other main routes to and from Trent Bridge and Lady Bay Bridge, it is very important that the opportunity is taken in the regeneration of this major site to provide attractive alternatives to encourage walking and cycling, linked to other new and improved connections. This will also help the promotion of cycling to and from the new workplaces on this site, as well as to encourage use of bikes by people living in the new residential parts of the development (especially if linked to secure bike storage as an integral part of these developments).
Cycling provision with the site
The existing cycle path on City Link is substandard, especially towards its London Road end. This should be upgraded, and the opportunity should also be taken with the new east-west road to the south to provide a more direct link for cyclists between London Road (opposite the eastern end of Station Street) and the new toucan crossing near the western end of the Sneinton Greenway. Links to and from the proposed Eastern Corridor route within the site are also important.
It is also important within the site that all the new roads are designed with a layout to give priority to safe movements on foot and by bike
External links
At the west end of the site, by the BBC Building, there is a pelican crossing of London Road, which is used unofficially by cyclists, and which does connect, a little indirectly, to the existing City Link cycle path. This is a useful way of avoiding cycling on the very busy roundabout at the north end of London Road.
At the east end of City Link the present crossing arrangements to and from Sneinton Hermitage are unsatisfactory but the new toucan crossing already proposed will help to improve this situation and to provide a better connection to and from the Sneinton Greenway as well as to the rest of the new Eastern Cycle Corridor to the east via the Manvers Street extension and Daleside Road, etc. This improved route, together with the proposed new sections of riverside path between Meadow Lane Lock and Colwick Park, will help also to serve the new major Waterside (Trent Basin) housing developments on which work has now started, and help to alleviate the extra traffic congestion (and consequent worsened air pollution) that could be generated by these major developments.
However, further external link improvements are needed including:-
• A direct link between the west and south-west sides of the Island Site and Station Street, particularly in view of its importance as a key access route to and from Nottingham Station and the Station Street Secure Bike Compound, etc.
• Direct links between the Island Site, near the NHS Walk-In Centre, and the northern end of the canal towpath (part of the Big Track circular route) parallel to London Road. The current access at this point, involving steps and crossing from one side of the canal to the other, is very unsatisfactory. This part of the canal towpath is likely to become more popular in future, once it connects with the new stretches of riverside path on the north bank of the Trent, east of Meadow Lane Lock, over the next few years, and extending not only to and from Colwick Park but also the proposed foot-cycle bridge between Trent Lane and The Hook (Lady Bay), as well as to other parts of the Big Track route further west via the Victoria Embankment, etc.
• Direct links between the Island Site, near the NHS Walk-In Centre, and the rest of The Big Track site to the west, past Nottingham Station and the Magistrates’ Court etc. Given the narrow width and poor visibility of the towpath on the corner just north of Great Northern Close (the most substandard section of the whole Big Track route), it would be very helpful to provide a new foot-cycle bridge at this point, if this could be agreed with the Canal and River Trust. Although the proposed Eastern Cycle Corridor scheme will improve cycle links between the Island Site and the Lace Market and City Centre, this would be a very useful improvement in cycle access to and from the south side of the City Centre (Broad Marsh etc.), connecting to the new Western Cycle Corridor on Castle Boulevard etc, as well as to the rest of The Big Track towpath route west of the Magistrates’ Court.
Created by Simon Munk // 1 thread
East-West Cycle SuperHighway phase 1 eastern half - Tower Hill - Parliament
Created by Simon Munk // 1 thread
North-South Cycle SuperHighway, N-S CSH
Created by Simon Munk // 1 thread
CS8 / Cycle SuperHighway 8 - Wandsworth to Westminster
Created by Simon Munk // 1 thread
Cycle SuperHighway 7 / CS7 - Merton to City
Created by Simon Munk // 1 thread
CS5 / Cycle SuperHighway 5 Vauxhall - Pimlico
Created by Simon Munk // 1 thread
CS3 / Cycle SuperHighway 3 Tower Gateway - Barking
This map shows all issues, whether points, routes, or areas:
The most popular issues, based on the number of votes:
Martin Lucas-Smith // 3 threads
Elizabeth Way is wide. Currently cycling is permitted on the pavements.
This should be changed to have dutch-style cycle tracks, achieved by narrowing the road slightly and narrowing the pavements (which are very wide and not heavily trafficked, so this would not disadvantage pedestrians).
This would give a safer cycling environment, and improve the pedestrian experience.
Created by Richenda // 1 thread
Apparently TfL commissioned "...to explore the opportunity of a pedestrian river crossing ....". They may not think bikes should also be included, but they should!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/4162/a-garden-bridge-across-the-thames.html
http://www.gardenbridgetrust.org/index.html
Created by Andrew Woodward // 0 threads
Railway footbridge should have a ramp/trough added to make it easier for cyclists to cross the railway. This would then create a quiet north/south route to Marshgate school as an alternative to Manor Road.
Created by TonyBeaumont // 1 thread
Out side the royal orthopaedic hospital up top 30 cars are parked in the cycle lane every day. Cyclists are forced out into the traffic lane of the A38 over a distance of about 1/4 mile.
Created by HVS // 3 threads
The A5117 at this point has some sections of non-protected cycle lane, but they are not continuous, and they disappear at a number of pinch points. The road carries a lot of very fast moving heavy traffic, and is dangerous and unpleasant to cycle on. It would be a useful route for people travelling by bike to or from Stanlow Refinery, Cheshire Oaks, the University of Chester at Thornton Science Park, and Ince & Elton villages, but is currently only used by a tiny number of very brave and confident cyclists. This situation could be improved by making the cycle lane continuous along the whole route.
Created by Andrew Woodward // 0 threads
Pinch-point at zebra crossing where cyclists are forced to share space with traffic that is often speeding. Cars try to squeeze past cyclists or brake suddenly.
Created by HankChief // 0 threads
There needs to be a ramped access to the school grounds at this point to replace or bypass the 6 steps currently there.
This would not only improve access to the school but also improve connection between the East Craigs Path Network and North Gyle and the only toucan crossing on the A8 in Edinburgh on Dechmont Road.
Created by Fraser Stephens // 1 thread
RAISED AT PUBLIC MEETING 10-04-2014
The infamous missing link in the Llanfoist-Brynmawr cycle path (route 46) is a huge barrier to its safe use by children as well as those who find the steep section of the diversion route impossible to climb.
The service entrance to the motorway services now has priority over the shared use path which runs parallel to the main road.
I have contacted both Hampshire County Council and Test Valley Borough Council about this change in priorities, but neither has responded beyond a cursory "we have received your email".
This is yet another example of through traffic being de-prioritised simply because it is on a cycle (or shared) path, rather than on a road.
Created by Andrew Woodward // 0 threads
Pinch point outside Courtlands on Sheen Road. Despite resurfacing, pinch point has not been addressed. Because of the poor road layout vehicles frequently encroach into the cycle lane. At off peak times the wide road encourages speeding - vehicles often approach this pinch point at 40mph.
Created by Frenchie // 0 threads
This is one of the prime candidate for a cycle contraflow in Newcastle City Centre. Currently one way for all traffic from Percy Street to Strawberry place. Allowing cyclists down from Strawberry Place to Percy Street would improve permeability and connectivity for cyclists. Note: not a lot of traffic, space not an issue, short uphill section so speeding not an issue.
Created by Shaun McDonald // 0 threads
The entrance to Dock Street should be turned into a continuous footway with pedestrian and cyclist priority over turning vehicles akin to this Danish junction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcnmLU1ClTo
This would improve sight lines for pedestrians too as the dropped kerbs are away from the junction, and it would also go with the pedestrian desire line as many tend to cross closer to the junction than the dropped kerbs. It would also slow down the vehicles entering the narrow street.
Created by Ned Harrison // 1 thread
Holywells Park has a section of cycle route 51 running through it, linking South East Ipswich to the centre with a pleasant and safe route down to the waterfront.
During Winter, the park is closed at dusk, sometimes as early as 4, meaning that just when the roads are most dangerous (dark and wet) cyclists are forced onto steep and busy routes either along Cliff Lane or up Bishops Hill.
The closures are largely at the request of the Park Friends group. I've spoken to them, and their concerns seem to be largely about what might go on after dark. It's not clear that there is any evidence for this, nor that the current situation of locking the main gates but leaving others would do anything to deter misbehaviour.
Keeping it open as a cycle route would ensure a legitimate presence in the park, and help provide less confident cyclists in the area with a safe route to and from town.
I'd propose either locking later, or for a trial period leaving the park unlocked.
Created by Rosalind Lund // 1 thread
further to the piece in newsletter 128, I wonder if any thought has been given to the difficulty of turning right into Emmanuel Street if you are coming towards the town centre from St Andrew's Street? We go fairly often to the Arts Cinema and this is the obvious way for us to go home, but it is impossible to turn right on the correct side of the bollard at present as it is designed only for left turning cycles coming out of town. There is, however, nothing to suggest that such a right turn is illegal.
Created by Paul James // 0 threads
All the sideroads between Richmond Circus and Manor Circus are a danger to cyclists on the cycleway.
There is no warning to motorists that there will be crossing cyclists and the building angles make it hard to see if anything is coming.
Turning traffic from the A316 can have an obscured view of the cycleway due to foliage.
Decrease corner radii.
Make road hump more pronounced.
Make cycle surface colour continuous across roadway.
Add markings across roadway.
Add warning signage.
Move give way lines back to before cycleway or add additional give way lines.
Created by chdot // 1 thread
Longstanding issue about 'optimum' design, particularly to reduce conflict caused by vehicles turning from Teviot Pl due to signal phases.
Over the past couple of years of regularly cycling between Waterbeach and Cambridge on NCN11 I have noticed that the path between Waterbeach and Baits Bite Lock is in really bad repair and is getting gradually worse. I have been in touch with the council to ask them to repair it, and they told me that as far as they are concerned the path is only a footpath, and they have no obligation to maintain it to a standard suitable for bikes. Sustrans tells me they have no responsibility for maintaining that section of the route, and that the council should be responsible for it.
It seems absurd to allow the path to fall into total disrepair, but at the moment it doesn't seem like anyone recognises any obligation for its upkeep.
I am happy to go out occasionally with some secateurs and chop off the more annoying bits of greenery, but the path needs resurfacing and that feels a bit beyond me!
Does anyone have any experience with this sort of problem? Have they come across it on other sections of the NCN?
Martin Lucas-Smith // 1 thread
There's a very poor dogleg right-angle with barriers at the entrance/exit from the West Cambridge site to Clerk Maxwell Road.
This should be turned into a wide splay with good visibility.
Created by Shaun McDonald // 1 thread
It would be much safer to have cyclist priority on the slip roads here as is done in The Netherlands http://www.flickr.com/photos/smsm1/10046288016/ , or even the following example from Britain: http://www.cycling-embassy.org.uk/photos/good-cycling-facility-of-the-week/good-cycling-facility-of-the-week-14th-november-2013-0
The slip roads also need to be narrowed to slow motor vehicle speeds as does the turning radii of the roundabout.
Created by Katja Leyendecker // 1 thread
The (draft / emerging) 1Core Strategy seems to hint at a bus loop (Policy UC7) and a motor vehicle "ring road" (Policy UC9) too. It mentions pedestrian routes but there's no mention of cycle routes. See attached photo. (I didn't mark up the map, as it might become a tad too messy)
The "ring road" is just like Scott / esde84 described before http://newcycling.org/space4cycling/part2 (in comments)
The photo in the attachment is from "Newcastle Proposals Map" listed here http://onecorestrategyng-consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal/examination_library (not sure how long thi link will stay live, link rot may happen)
Created by Andrew Woodward // 1 thread
Providing a cycle-friendly surface on the path from Meadlands Drive to the road serving the German School and the Polo Club would improve cycling access to Strathmore and Russell Schools and help provide a better quiet route from Meadlands Drive area towards Richmond - providing more/better options for avoiding the busy Petersham Road.
Martin Lucas-Smith // 4 threads
London Cycling Campaign has reorientated its policy towards a 'Go Dutch' approach.
This aims to learn from best practice abroad rather than continuing with the 'hierarchy of provision' that, in 20 years in the UK, has arguably failed to deliver meaningful change.
This is an overarching issue for conceptual discussion of this issue.
Created by JonC // 0 threads
Our club (South Herts CTC) had to cross the A505 to get back into Hertfordshire on Sunday and we took a route between Litlington and Therfield which involved 500 m along the A505 and a right turn at the roundabout west of Royston.
I was quite surprised there was no cycle route to help cyclists here. It was a Sunday so at least there were fewer heavy vehicles than normal, but the speed of some cars coming up behind made it tricky to change lanes on a bike when turning right at the roundabout.
Since then I have studied other ways of crossing the A505 (using Google Streetview) and can't find any easy crossing points near Royston. I see it is the boundary between Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, which complicates matters (although it looks like the A505 road is in Herts).
To the east, I've used the B1368 crossing at Flint Cross, which is also a nightmare. To the west the crossing at Slip End does at least have a central refuge. It seems little or no thought was given to cyclists when the A505 was constructed.
Meeting with Leeds City Council to discuss possible remedial works due to high casualty rates.
Created by Shaun McDonald // 1 thread
Many cyclists won't cycle to Harwich International from the Ipswich direction due to the roads. There really should be a high quality cycle route for this to continue the cycle journey from The Netherlands, where you can ride of the ferry and on to quality cycle infrastructure. The fact people choose the train is not a good sign.
This issue is the overall goal, and needs to be broken down into smaller sub issues of smaller more specific projects or improvements that can work towards this goal.
