LTN 1/89, “Making way for cyclists”:LTN 2/08, “Cycle Infrastructure Design”:As a result of concerns over the safety of parallel cycle tracks crossing side roads, it is becoming common European practice to reintroduce cyclists to the main road in a…
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Followup to the introduction of shared use at the start of the 1980s, guidance from the mid ’80s in LTN 2/86, “Shared use by cyclists and pedestrians” (PDF) — their original emphasis: 2.1 Allowing cyclists even limited use of facilities previousl…
Earl Howe, now Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health, points out that you need to have an organisation like Cycling England to hold local authorities properly to account — the exact conclusion of the DfT review of the…
These have to be read in the context of the introduction of the first dual carriageway roads. Amazingly, in 75 years, some folk still haven’t noticed that the context has moved on a bit…29 April 1937: Mr William Craven-Ellis (Southampton)asked t…
The Guardian, “75 years after the UK’s first cycle lane opened, the same debates rage on”. BalbKubrox14 December 2009 10:52AM@felixcat:I suspect that the cycle track in the original report is similar to the ones beside the Liverpool- Preston road,…
Hmmm. Transport questions, 22 Dec 1954. Viscount Hinchingbrooke (South Dorset)asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he is aware of the waste of land and money involved in the provision of cycle tracks as well as footpaths on e…
Meant to bank this astonishing piece, from the Pedestrian Crossings debate, 26 July 1951. Sir Austin Hudson (Lewisham North)… I happened to be Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport just after the pedestrian crossings???the Belisha b…