In last week’s the week before the week before last’s post, if you build it they will come, I described why we should expect that building proper cycle superhighways — fast, capacious, direct and sensible routes that are segregated from high volumes of fast moving motor vehicles — should unleash a massive latent demand for cycle commuting in British cities. But there is an argument that dedicated and segregated cycling infrastructure like this could actually be counter-productive. The argument goes like this:
