On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Adrian Lord <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In most central areas of smaller dutch towns and cities there is not 'cycle infrastructure', just road space shared or perhaps released by taking out on street parking etc. It is the 'hieraarchy of measures' in practice. I think that there is a problem within 'cycle campaigning' in that most campaigners are focussed on what makes things better and safer for existing cyclists rather than wht will attract more people onto bikes. If more people ride bikes of course, then a lot of the difficult political moves about reallocating road space to create cycle tracks, lanes or 20mph areas suddenly become easier.....
Yes the 'hierarchy of measures' covers it, but fails to show how its
principles might practically be applied to achieve a decent result.
It's a lot of ideas without context, and without context it doesn't
resolve anything.
I don't think it's particularly helpful to ascribe beliefs to "most
campaigners". Better to say that what needs to be done instead: focus
on one or more design cyclists. As it rather usefully says in LTN2/08,
paras 1.3.6-13.
Now maybe we could get back to working out how turn all these good
ideas into something vaguely acceptable, in a UK context?
Richard
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