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A protest campaign over poor walking and cycling safety


Effective road safety planning: what should be happening

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Poor Merseyside road casualties should be considered
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Merseyside road safety failures

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Best practice options: cycling infrastructure

Cycling design standards

London Street Design Guidance
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/streets-toolkit

Space for Cycling
This is an 8-page guide produced by Cycling UK - see https://www.cyclinguk.org/sites/default/files/document/2017/10/space_for_cycling_guide_for_decision_makers.pdf .

Funding for cycling

The Scottish Government has recently doubled its annual investment in cycling and walking to £80 million (£13.50 per head of population) in 2018-19 - see https://www.cyclinguk.org/press-release/2017-09-05/scotland-doubles-annual-funding-cycling-walking-%c2%a380m and http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0052/00524214.pdf .

Dutch cycling infrastructure

Dutch cycling infrastructure is the best in the world. The image shows a junction from Groningen, but similar junctions are standard throughout the Netherlands (look on Google Street View). The image is high resolution, and can be viewed full-screen, by right-clicking on it and selecting "View Image", or by zooming in via the "View" menu (depending on browser).

Note
  • the protected cycle track on both sides of the road
  • the parked vehicles do not obstruct cycling
  • the grass growing in the cracks - the junction has been there for years.
The norm is that traffic lights have a phase just for cyclists - so all cyclists can cross in any direction without having to encounter motor vehicles.





Last updated: 12 Jan 2020