The cycle spine is a £48m project which will connect Bishops Cleeve in north Gloucestershire to Stroud in the south, also linking Gloucester and Cheltenham.
Gloucestershire County Council said the scheme was designed to “help reduce carbon emissions and encourage active travel” and has proposed extending the route into south Gloucester from St Ann Way to Cole Avenue, through Linden, Podsmead and Tuffley.
Those names are aggressively British.
Don’t worry everyone. I know the area and that bike lane is 100% happening. Maybe not precisely the proposed route but it’ll be going somewhere. The council has already closed an extremely busy road for six months so they could demolish and rebuild a bridge to get the bike lane in, there ain’t no way they’re letting a few whinging locals block it now.
Good.
Carbrains need to grow the fuck up and share the road.
Honestly, they need to get off the road. For all of us.
Preaching to the choir here, but I’ll keep repeating: any journalist that gives the cost of a transit project but doesn’t do the same for how much money is spent on roads is performing propaganda. Particularly in this case, when I’d be willing to bet that 90% of the project cost is actually rebuilding the roads for cars, not putting in the bike lanes.
Why are there random words missing in the article?
Fears new cycle lane will cause huge disruption
Who fears that? Or is “fear” the subject of that sentence?
The proposed route will Sean Neely’s front door, he added.
What?
Fears new cycle lane will cause huge disruption
This is headlinese, a remnant from when headlines took up physical space on a newspaper.
The other line is probably just an error tho
Guessing because it’s the BBC and British people have a slightly different version of English.
Now i can’t park right next to where i need to go and might have to… Walk.
The same guy probably want a huge mansion where all they do is…walk.
Well if you can’t drive from your living room’s couch to your bathroom, is it really a mansion?
THE HORROR!!!
Oh no!!!
If I buy a horse, I don’t get to go to the city and complain I don’t have anywhere to graze my horse. You’re not entitled to free government land to store your car
She said: “I really don’t think it’s been thought through enough with the size of the roads and the parking, where is everybody going to park?”
Further away.
And then walk. :)
Or not at all as they can now take a bike!
Yes! 🎉🎉🎉
I think that woman doesn’t know who everybody is. It’s awkward when people don’t think about the words they’re saying.
The words aren’t the issue. Not thinking further than their own small world is the issue. These people absoluty don’t comprehend that other people might live differently than they do or they might even think their way of living is the only one to strive for and the top of the ladder.
that bike lane placement does look fucking stupid
It’s something that happens when cities insist on prioritising reducing how much it annoys car drivers over producing the best possible active transport infrastructure. They build these bidirectional bike paths down one side of the street instead of having a bike path on each side. And that inevitably means that sometimes you’re going to get this.
that makes sense in a daft way but seem super dangerous
There are certain risks with it. In my advocacy I always try to push for uni-directional paths on each side of the road because of that. But honestly the safety concerns are minimal when compared to no bike path at all, or just an on-road bike lane.
The biggest danger is people coming out of driveways or side streets failing to look both ways. It’s extra useful, therefore, to use wombat crossings across side streets, and to put small, sharp speed bumps beside the path on driveways. Here’s an example near me:
(Just ignore the stencilled white pedestrian indicator on the bicycle-path green-painted path. That’s a whole separate problem of poor inconsistent design…Especially since there’s an unpainted concrete footpath right next to it.)
But even if you don’t do that, it’s pretty damn good. It takes away all fear for 90% of the length, and just requires attentiveness from the cyclist when they approach intersections. Less than perfect, but still quite good.
it is the intersections i’m specifically referring to, i feel like idiot drivers would be prone to plowing into that curved cross
it happens to cars now with uneven lanes accross intersections, we have two of them in my city
i do like the speedbumb idea
into that curved cross
Oh right, you mean the intersection shown in the article? Yeah nah, that’s a complete non-issue. First, remember that the “right on red” rule is widely regarded by the rest of the world, quite rightly, as utterly fucking insane. When there’s a red light, you simply cannot go.
So that weird crossing shown, turning from the right-hand side of one road to the left-hand side of the other, is totally fine. You just design the light phasing so that there is no phase in which people can cross over each other.
Compared to what? That’s the entire point, isn’t it?
compared to exactly what the other guy suggested with it properly split
Pretty sure that’s by design, so they can point and say, “See? We told you, bike lanes don’t work!”
Idk about that. I can only speak to my experience, but when you combine all modes of transportation it can be difficult to arrange the intersection. There are often trade offs to be made and safety is always a priority.
This is UK? So I’m not sure, but it looks like the side streets have a combination of one way and parking. TBH it looks similar to what we do, but they curved the bike channelization instead of making it straight and dashed like we’re starting to do in the US. Not wrong, just different I guess.
“…where is everybody going to park?”
What if you had transport options that didn’t require to you have to park?
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No car payment.
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No expensive insurance requirements.
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No downtime due to inconvenient auto repairs.
To be fair, also bikes need to park somewhere, they just take up significantly less space.
Absolute crazy talk.
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Original title:
Fears new cycle lane will cause huge disruption
and we’re just not happy about it
Very nice attempt of manipulation public opinion, it sounds her statement represents a vast amount of people 🤦♂️
I hate those car-brained parking-space-heads.
