Re: So what should Sustrans call their non-road routes?

David Hansen <SENDdavidNOhSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 11 Jul 2006 16:20:29 GMT someone who may be MJ Ray
<mjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote this:-
Often, those seem to be flagrant breaks of construction guidelines.
Cycleways should have priority, except for a few cases, but seldom do.

Whose construction guidelines and does it matter?

Department for Transport (dft.gov.uk). I'd expect ignorance can be
made very embarrassing for them quite easily, similar to the short
yellow lines or daft approaches to trees.

Fife and the City of Edinburgh Councils will not mark bike
bantustans as having priority over side roads. They say it would be
"dangerous". I doubt if they are unique.

As far as I've figured out so far, there seems to be two approaches
to this:
1. if the side roads are state-owned (=adopted?) ask for the safety
assessments, then they'll go quiet, so do a FoIA request to get them
If they don't exist, you're up and running with the press, or if they
do exist, they'll either contradict national policy and I'd hope the
local cycling-friendly MP helps, or there's some good reason not to
do it, but I've not got that far yet and I've lost my motivation to
spend quite so much time on new ones in this area;
2. if the side roads are private owned, ask nicely for a priority
change (it's usually thoughtlessness rather than mistaken ideas of
safety), then ask for the safety assessment and watch them fold.
This worked well so far.
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MJR/slef

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