No Paul, it’s not for the people you don’t see cycling yet. The uptake will be minimal for day to day use. Anyone commuting any distance won’t use them. Those that do commute will be like you and see them as an irrelevance. I know a lot of people locally and very few, if any, would use the bike lanes other than occasionally.Your bridge analogy is otiose. The construction of a bridge, or any river crossing would usually be asked for by a sizeable number if people. There would usually be detailed cost benefit analysis carried out, feasibility studies, all time consuming and expensive. I say usually, because the Garden Bridge fiasco ignored all the accepted practices and turned out to be a white elephant. A Boris project. Like Brexit. Like active travel. Can you see the pattern of idiocy?Oh, and a river crossing is usually put in place because there’s a need for it, because there’s no alternative way to cross. As you priced in your response, most bike lanes aren’t needed because most super keen cyclists don’t and won’t use them. Because there’s an existing road network.But actually this survey isn’t about cycling, it’s about ‘clean air’, though much of what constitutes ‘unclean air’ is ignored in it. Particulates from construction, particularly demolition, are overlooked. As are gas emissions from subterranean pockets, such as those blighting the lives of residents of Southall.And, since I suspect your qualifications on the matter are zero, all this planning fails to take account of daily meteorological conditions.
Simon Hayes ● 1296d