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help me design a cycle facility
We all know how appalling most cycle facilities are.
I find myself trying to design a road junction, and the council is amenable to incorporate special measures to accommodate cycles, but it's actually proving a pain in the neck. Hence, I'm seeking inspiration. Consider a T-junction. For various reasons, traffic proceeding across the top right-to-left has now been stopped in one direction and must turn left down the stem. This is easy, if we force all traffic to do it, but actually, I could let bicycles go straight on. However, I can't see a way to do so. Motor traffic, which is going to be forced to turn left, will assume that all traffic will turn left, and will not notice that bikes may go straight on - resulting in too many clashes. Further, even if the cyclist avoids that, the stuff coming up the stem, which must turn right, needs to be brought forward to the middle of the road for visibility reasons, so there's a second clash with the cyclist crossing through a stationary queue. If you're having trouble visualising it, there's a sketch at http://www.astounding.org.uk/ian/temp/TMsketch.pdf What to do? I really want to let cycles go straight on, because otherwise it's a miles long detour. However, my highways department insists the stuff coming up the stem gets a stop line at what was the middle of the road, and I can't see any way to avoid conflicts. My best solution so far is to make the footway across the top a shared use cycle path, so cycles going along that (which is what I expect they will do) are at least decriminalised. However, I'll hate myself forever for causing a shared-use-pavement to be brought into being.... Thoughts? regards, Ian SMith -- |\ /| no .sig |o o| |/ \| |
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