Following Cycling Superhighway 2
I came home from Stratford by following the Cycling Superhighway 2 (CS2)
For the first part of the journey I walked and then I hopped onto a 25 bus.
The first part to the notorious Bow roundabout is very good, but between the roundabout and Whitechapel needs a lot of improvement to make it up to the same standard.
Will car drivers and other road users accept the narrowing of the carriageway and will pedestrians and the numerous Asian businesses along the road feel aggrieved at the reduction in pavement space?
I feel though, that the cycling superhighway should be built to a high standard and separated from other road users.
Only time will tell if what eventually happens is a good decision for all those, who use the area.
But we’ve had too many deaths and serious injuries amongst cyclists.
On a [personal note, if I had a nice cycling superhighway running towards the City, say down the Kingsland Road, it might encourage me to get on my bike. That would be something, that would improve my health.
The Anonymous Widower 
So side roads are still open so trucks can turn across the cycle lane. Elderly etc have to cross a segregated (humped?) cycle lame to get to and from the bus hoping no cycles are coming down teh road. There is no space for a bus shelter. Sometimes the cycle lanses just disapear. At times one can quite legally park on them. It will be like the ones on the Embankment in Chelsea which are only weekday days so no-one will understand that and never use them and anyway they are too narrow for the perfectly legal car use. Good system aren’t they (not). One ebing put in on the already too narrow Camberwell New Road in S London. Likely to be just as confusing and have all teh above problems. What a badly planned waste of money.
Comment by Mike Jay | November 8, 2013 |