Following recent media stories about accidents and after listening to The Bike Show Podcast while driving during my job it got me thinking:
It's all well n good campaigning to Copenhagenize our cities but without knocking down buildings to create cycle paths I can't see that happening any time soon.
I did think, why create cycle paths when we have perfectly good roads, it's the traffic on them that's the problem, be it cars, hgvs, cyclists, pedestrians or anything else.
And cheap solutions are usually the best.
So, I had a brainstorm which I've typed up, bus stops for cyclists.
I'd like to know peoples thoughts and also their ideas as to what could realistically be done, within a short time frame, with very low investment and without a leap in technology to be implemented.
The film We Are Traffic, about the Critical Mass movement shows how the critical mass of people using bikes (China I think it was) just politely forces the cars to give way. Then it goes on to the Critical Mass city streets are ours folk or antagonize as much as publicize cycling in a city.
I've uploaded my ByCycle document here:
http://sdrv.ms/1exLJBj
It's all well n good campaigning to Copenhagenize our cities but without knocking down buildings to create cycle paths I can't see that happening any time soon.
I did think, why create cycle paths when we have perfectly good roads, it's the traffic on them that's the problem, be it cars, hgvs, cyclists, pedestrians or anything else.
And cheap solutions are usually the best.
So, I had a brainstorm which I've typed up, bus stops for cyclists.
I'd like to know peoples thoughts and also their ideas as to what could realistically be done, within a short time frame, with very low investment and without a leap in technology to be implemented.
The film We Are Traffic, about the Critical Mass movement shows how the critical mass of people using bikes (China I think it was) just politely forces the cars to give way. Then it goes on to the Critical Mass city streets are ours folk or antagonize as much as publicize cycling in a city.
I've uploaded my ByCycle document here:
http://sdrv.ms/1exLJBj