City Cycling
Compare and contrast. On one side is a London Government body whose grandiose idea is to paint insulting blue lanes and call them Cycle Super Highways; a scheme so unsatisfactory that the only charitable thing one can say is that these people never ride a bike in London. On the other is the London Cycling Campaign, an organisation whose members actually share the road with inconsiderate lorry, taxi and van drivers; the LCC has prepared a masterplan to make Central London more pleasant to cycle and work. The picture above shows what London could look like, and is indeed very similar to a real-life Cycle Super Highway in Copenhagen. Full article here.
Image by David Morley Architects.
Article posted Thursday, March 25th, 2010
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This picture I don’t completely understand – though i guess i should also directly address my questions on the source site.
if pleasant cycling infra is provided in the street, what is the lady doing on the sidewalk? I understand that it should not be a priority to harass occasional low-speed cyclists on the pavement, but should not be part of the artist impression either.
what does the debatable heathrow Personal Rapid Transit car doing in the cycling lane? No, my concern here is not safety: but – as the PRT is economically probably a very infeasible idea – this gives me the very sad message that London will have pleasant cycling infrastructure exactly then PRTs become a daily reality. What about right now, instead? (not the PRTs, the cycling.)
Oh for gods sake, the LCC has been the major block against the type of cycle facility in that fantasy picture for the last 20 years. They are dogmatic vehicular cycling advocates who totally ignore the success denmark and holland have had in getting non cyclists to ride bikes.