tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18488334175487705062024-03-14T01:33:04.089-07:00Cyclists DismountI am often delighted by the quality of cycling infrastructure, particularly in countries where decisions have been made to make cities "people-scale". On the other hand I am constantly amazed at the unhelpful attitude taken by some councils - usually in the UK.
This Blog will look at the good and the bad of cycling infrastructure. I'm happy to receive contributions from others, or to reference others' blogs.Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848833417548770506.post-31764864270618550372017-07-10T10:43:00.003-07:002017-07-10T10:43:32.084-07:00Trip to Netherlands: Rotterdam<h2 style="-en-clipboard: true;">
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Rotterdam is where we had been based for the whole of our Netherlands trip.
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Rotterdam is interesting, in that like Southampton it is a port city, which was heavily bombed during the war and which has a large volume of commercial traffic. Also, unlike the other cities we had seen, Rotterdam was not early into the Dutch bicycle revolution so does not yet have the perfect infrastructure that we saw in <a href="http://cyclists-dismount.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/trio-to-netherlands-delft.html" target="_blank">Delft</a> and <a href="http://cyclists-dismount.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/trip-to-netherlands-utrecht.html" target="_blank">Utrecht</a>.
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In Rotterdam there were still plenty of 4-6 lane highways. But they mostly had accompanying 2 lane cycle lanes, usually on both sides. Unlike Southampton, after the war they did not try to rebuild the centre of the city on the old grid, but started again, creating enormously wide boulevards that have space for traffic, bikes, public transport and people on foot.<br />
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Our meeting at the Council was to be after lunch, so for the morning some of us decided to experience the local O Bikes. These are the modern generation of share bikes that are GPX enabled and oddonot need to be docked. You can pick one up wherever you find it an leave it in any legal bike parking spot. See the <a href="https://www.o.bike/" target="_blank">O Bike web site</a> and the <a href="https://en.rotterdam.info/locations/obike/" target="_blank">Rotterdam O Bike information</a>.<br />
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I’m not going to spend long on this - John Savage, councillor for Portswood, was also on the trip and <a href="https://medium.com/@johnny58/day-4-rotterdam-84da030ce8f2" target="_blank">here is his excellent blog on this topic</a>.</div>
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Rotterdam has clearly not yet got the extreme cycle parking problems of Rotterdam, and although cycle infrastructure was good by UK standards, it was not perfect or fully connected.
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Some things we saw on our ride:
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<li>Lots of expensive top-end cars charging - we wondered if being electric gets a privileged parking place, which might be a force for change?</li>
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<li>The City Centre has enormously wide roads but there were plenty of places where 6 lane highways had been taken down to a tram route and a cycle road and one lane traffic in each direction. The traffic was dense but did not seem gridlocked.</li>
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<li><b>The Signage</b>: I expect this was the same in the other Dutch cities, but this was the first time I had needed to navigate rather than be led by a local. At many important intersections there was a map of the network (see below). This intersection (and map) would be numbered, and all the other numbered intersections were shown on the map. Navigation then becomes remembering a set of numbers to cycle through and then following signs on the lamposts - e.g. the sign in the picture below shows us the route from 58 to 14 or to 17. (Note the finger signs the major cycle route signs</li>
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<li>Mopeds and scooters on the cycle paths. This was true in all cities, but most noticeable in Rotterdam, and may be a symptom of the larger proportion of the population who have not grown up with the cycle culture. We asked about this and were told it was a considerable problem: they go much faster than the bulk of the cycle traffic, they make a lot of noise and they smell. It is quite possible that laws may change in the future to classify even these low CC motorbikes in the same way as higher capacity motorbikes, and get them off the cycle tracks and onto the road with cars - and presumably into helmets</li>
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We were hosted at Rotterdam City offices by John Akkerhis and a number of his colleagues from Transport, mobility and cycling.
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One of the first things we had noticed was the stunning architecture of the building. An interesting observation was that the workers in the office part of the tower are required to be out by 1900, in order to make the place quiet and relaxed for the residential occupants. This deliberate “mixed zoning” ensures that areas are not crowded for one part of the day, but deserted for another part of the day.
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Rotterdam city has a policy to re-develop the city to make it a liveable, thriving and denser city, and this is accompanied by plans for health, mobility, accessibility etc. They call their plan the “City Lounge” and<a href="https://www.rotterdam.nl/wonen-leven/binnenstad/City-Lounge-english-concept-v3-liggend.pdf" target="_blank"> this presentation</a> sums ups their aspirations
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They are certainly not yet all the way there, and they pointed out that there was a push to make so much progress that they were past the point of no return so that future political changes would not be able to undo the progress that had been made.
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<li>Modal share cycle use in Rotterdam is low for the NL at 23% for < 5km. There has been a growth of 60% in recent years and it is still growing at 10% p.a. - they want to be a bicycle city. They have built 600 km of cycle lanes in city - mostly in the last 10 years. This expenditure has mostly been subsidised by national air quality incentives.</li>
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<li>There is an issue in the south of the city where there has been significant recent growth in the population. Many of these are immigrants without a cycling culture and tending to worship cars as status symbols. Children get overweight, modal cycle use is much lower, women don't know how to ride, people can't maintain bikes. They are spending a lot of money on changing culture here...</li>
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Utrecht is a city of about 350,000 people and they compared themselves, maybe, to Sheffield in the UK. They business is mostly service industry and high tech, and like Southampton, the Universities, Hospitals and medical research are the biggest employers. They have the biggest inland docks in the NL, and this historic area is still apparent. In recent years there has been a massive expansion of the population, and a whole new area of the city has been created to the South, as well as a new science park to the west.
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Utrecht is well known in Urban planning circles for its innovations in changing the way space is used and its move to being a "liveable city”, and its aspires to be a “World Class Bicycle City”. Around 43% of all journeys under 7.5km are made by bike, 17% of all journeys between 7.5km and 15km, around 50% cycle to work or school and there are 125,000 cycle journeys through the city centre every day which puts it right up there with the most successful. It also has 15% of journeys on public transport.
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"Utrecht is growing at a rapid pace. It is a city where an increasing number of people wants to live and work. Additionally, it is a popular destination for day trippers and tourists. This is good news for the Utrecht economy, but with the growing bustle and increased activity we also have to make a greater effort to keep our city pleasant, orderly, clean and safe. In Utrecht, this is a joint effort of residents, entrepreneurs and organisations. The bicycle has been assigned a leading part, for if we make Utrecht a genuine world-class bicycle city, the health of our city and its region will benefit in all respects. </blockquote>
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On Our Way to Making Utrecht a world-class bicycle City</h4>
To become a world-class bicycle city, Utrecht should be safe for cyclists of any age. In a world-class bicycle city, the street scene is dominated by cyclists. In the development plans for the public area, the bicycle has pride of place and right of way – both literally and figuratively – wherever possible. To be a world-class bicycle city, however, it is essential that a firm basis is in place: an extensive network of comfortable bicycle paths and lanes as well as excellent bicycle parking facilities. We are doing our utmost to make this happen. We aim at using innovative methods to make cycling easier, safer and more fun."</blockquote>
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The first and most enduring impression of Utrecht is the extent of the success of their cycling policy. “Build it and they will come” could never have been shown to be more true! But there are some interesting side-effects of moving all those joints from cars to bikes.
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<li>They have a very real cycle parking problem, They have recently spent €50M on 20,000 cycle parking places near to the station. (But if that seems a lot, they also had to spend €1B on space for 8,000 extra cars, so cycling infrastructure looks cheap!)</li>
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<li>The traffic light phases have been changed to longer red passes for cards and longer green phases for bikes</li>
<li>Speed limits on roads of 30 kph (20 mph) have been applied on all roads except major through roads. The roads have been redesigned to make 30kph likely - people ignore the speed limit if the road is too wide and easy. </li>
<li>They have a policy of trying to keep flow going on the city streets, which can often be achieved by removing traffic lights. Where the streets are narrower and slower, it turns out that the flow is better without lights and pedestrians can cross more easily</li>
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The effect of this traffic evaporation from the centre is to displace some car traffic outwards on to the motorway ring roads, and of course, these are now suffering congestion.</div>
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<li>They are incrementally increasing the standard required of vehicles allowed in the city - so Euro 6 or LNG are on the way.</li>
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In the long run they envisage a city without private parking places. Instead the city will provide “mobility as a service” and sell citizens and visitors the full mobility package tailored to their needs. This will involve car sharing systems, bike sharing, and public transport, all available via a city smart card, and all intelligently planned for each individual.
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After our presentation from the city we went for a ride with Jan and Mark. A few interesting observations:</div>
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<li>There were bridges over the rivers. One bridge was cycle only and had cost some €M's. The road bridge had a two way cycle lane welded onto the side.</li>
<li>There was a lot of new and high quality infrastructure, but we also saw the "bad". On a route into the centre of the city through the outskirt shopping areas (could have been Shirley or Portswood in Southampton) a narrow cycle lane had been forced along the pavement. It was too narrow for easy cycling yet it took a large amount of the pavements, leaving the pedestrians and shoppers squashed and jumping for cover as cyclists went shooting past at 20kph. This is not the scenario I would want to see. Pedestrians should come first. </li>
<li>It was interesting to see intelligent signs that told you how you would need to alter speed to go across the next traffic light without stopping - so 150 m before the lights you were encouraged to go slower or faster, or keep the same speed.</li>
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There is an excellent website at <a href="https://www.utrecht.nl/city-of-utrecht/living/mobility/cycling/">https://www.utrecht.nl/city-of-utrecht/living/mobility/cycling/</a> with lots of information and figures, and pictures, some of which I have borrowed for this presentation.
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The CREATE Project funded by the European Commission under Horizon2020 is one of the first projects that addresses the task Tackling Urban Road Congestion.
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We were in Delft by Shelley and Angela from <a href="http://www.mobycon.com/" target="_blank">Mobycon</a>, who help design sustainable transport solutions. After kitting us out with hire bikes (actually they were owned by the train company and used for a "train and bike" mobility solution), we had coffee and then went for a ride round town to see things first hand </div>
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1. The parking at the station was for around 5000 bikes. Very spacious and technically supported so people could easily find the few spaces. Cycle Paths and signage right to the door.<br />
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2. The bikes we got belong to the train company. Any registered NL citizen can hire a bike to extend their train journey very cheaply (free?). They were the type without handbrakes which took a little getting used to!<br />
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3. As we sat outside Mobycon building we could see the route to the station and one main road. There were nearly always more people visible on bikes than in cars.<br />
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4. In some places the number of bikes was a little scary - they take no prisoners and assume everyone is as confident as them.</div>
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5. The old city is completely traffic free (except those that can get through bollards). It was a bit empty when we were there, but you could see that it would be a lively social centre when the market was in situ.</div>
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6. We saw a “Home Zone” where cars are limited to 10 kph, there are no through roads, and parking (even for bikes) is at a premium.<br />
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7. We were shown an amazing roundabout. This was a fantastic example of changing the power dynamics of a city form cars to people. We were so impressed by this roundabout that we all cycled round it many times whooping like children! Here is the before and after picture:<br />
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<li>Tram and busses go straight through the centre and then the lights stop everyone else</li>
<li>Cars give way to pedestrians then to cycles that come in *both* directions (many more of them when we were there than in the video).</li>
<li>The road has been reduced from Dual Carriageway to one lane in each direction plus a separate lane for trams and busses.</li>
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8. We saw an area where they were removing an old six lane highway near the station and replacing it with human scale infrastructure prioritising pedestrians, bike users and public transport.</div>
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9. We saw the University where they have removed major access road over bridge and replaced it entirely with cycle *road* (and a very busy cycle road it was too). </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The TU Delft Campus as it was</td></tr>
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10. We saw a number of these - a kind of bin on the front of a Segway! Apparently kindergarten teachers take the kids for rides in them. They love it! </div>
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Thanks enormously to our Mobycon hosts for the tour they gave us and for the use of some of their pictures.</div>
Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848833417548770506.post-75929283837855044122017-07-03T23:02:00.001-07:002017-07-06T11:07:20.991-07:00Cycle Infrastructure in the Netherlands. First Impressions<div>
I am lucky enough to be representing<a href="http://www.southamptoncyclingcampaign.org.uk/" target="_blank"> Southampton Cycling Campaign</a> on a trip to the Netherlands to review Cycle Infrastructure and culture. There are representatives from Southampton City Council, Clean Air Southampton, British Cycling, Sustrans, and the Southampton Cycling Campaign on the trip.
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My group travelled to Hook of Holland by overnight Ferry, and the first stage of our journey was by bus and train from the Ferry Port to Delft. (interestingly, the ferry, on arrival in Holland, plugged into the mains, and turned off its generators)<br />
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Hook of Holland is similar to any small dockside city in the UK. Most of the infrastructure is post war rebuild and access to the ferry terminal was through residential streets and past shopping areas. However the authorities have managed to squeeze in proper cycle paths on all roads. Parking is **always** off road - at least set back from the cycle lane.
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Good signposting for bikes everywhere, and of course the was a cycle path right to the ferry terminal.</div>
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At pinch points where there is not room for road and cycle path (e.g. through a pedestrian island) the cycle path does not disappear but instead cars need to time their entry into the pinch point as they will have to go into cycle lane, and then they must give way to cycles.
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Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848833417548770506.post-66296152953424106522017-07-03T22:23:00.001-07:002017-07-03T22:23:21.114-07:00Time OutI have not posted for some while (last post was in early February). I hd been making good recovery from a head/brain injury incurred when I was knocked of my bike (Oct 2015), but unexpectedly suffered setbacks in February. Hopefully I am on the road to recovery and clarity of thought again now.Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848833417548770506.post-8557686169095565002017-02-09T11:00:00.001-08:002017-02-14T01:49:47.882-08:00Defining and Signing Southampton City Cycle Route 2There are a number of potentially useful cycle routes shown within Southampton City on Open Cycle Map. These routes are primarily on road, using quieter roads. There is currently no signage for these routes.<br />
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<br />Southampton Cycle Route 2</h3>
The City Council have asked The Southampton Cycling Campaign for help on approving these routes and suggesting signage, starting with Southampton City Cycle Route 2, which departs from NCR 236 just to the West of the Central Station and takes you to the Fours Horseshoes at Nursling at the point where the M271 joins the M27. At this point the route is outside the city boundary, but the cycle route continues to westward from here to join the NCR 246 (Station Road/Lee Lane) and north to join the Southampton Road into Romsey. The full route is shown in Map1 in dashed blue, going parallel to Shirley Road to Shirley, then through Wimpson and parallel to the M271 to Nursling.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Map 1: Southampton City Cycle Route 2 from Open Cycle Map</td></tr>
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As it happens this is a route @suukii and I use very frequently to go from Southampton to Romsey, so we volunteered to make the initial suggestions for signage. However, it soon became apparent that other member of SCC had views about better routes. This document therefore looks at which route would be best to sign.<br />
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We were told to expect that the signage would be applied as stickers on lampposts, similar to those used by the National Cycle Network (see Fig 1)<br />
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There has been some discussion within the Cycle Campaign about what makes good signage, and some members feel that the only correct answer is proper "finger signs" but the reality is that we won't get the more expensive signs until there are well established routes - and the routes will not be well established unless signed, mapped and advertised.<br />
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On road cycle routes should ideally meet the following conditions:<br />
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<li>Directness - they should go where they are going with as direct a route as possible</li>
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<li>Space exists to ride outside the door reach of parked cars</li>
<li>Crossings/Junctions with major roads should be managed in a way appropriate to the traffic load and speed on the major road. Again, cycle path design manuals, such as Interim Advice Note 195/16 - Cycle Traffic and the Strategic Road Network, define the appropriate managements for different traffic density on the main road.</li>
<li>Reasonable road quality.</li>
<li>No unreasonable obstacles restrictions in the road that make it unsafe for bikes (e.g pedestrian traffic islands, on-road bus stops etc)</li>
<li>Suitable for an appropriately trained 11 year old secondary school child to ride unaccompanied. If this is not the case then it isn't really a cycle route.</li>
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Map 2:N236 to Oakley Road / Regents Park Road junction</div>
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<b><br />Comments on Map 2:</b><br />
The Park Road cross over Paynes Road (Green Circle) can be problematic. Paynes Road can be quite busy, although it is calmed by the traffic lights where it meets Shirley Road at Foyes Corner.<br />
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The proposed route from Randolf Street to Henry Road uses a alley way at the end of Randolf Street Red Circle). There are issues with mounting pavements, parked cars across the ends, and it is not marked for shared use.<br />
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In practice most people who do this route prefer to turn down Nelson Street and join Foundry Lane earlier (red line). Nelson Road has many parked and is narrow, but is very quiet.<br />
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Crossing Regents Road from the top of Foundry Lane to Oakley Road (Blue Circle) is a difficult junction, particularly when coming South. It needs some attention for cyclists. There are pedestrian lights nearby but they are useless if going on to/coming from Oakley Road.<br />
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Probably. It would benefit from a general speed restriction of 20 mph, exclusion of HGVs and some support for cyclists at the two major road crossings.<br />
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Oakley Road is not much loved by cyclists. The traffic is too fast, too frequent and there are occasional HGVs. There are too many parked cars at critical points that push cyclists out into the road.</div>
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In particular the traffic around the Treboura Way crossing (Red Circle)is not suitable for the faint hearted. The Crossing itself has traffic lights, but a green cycle lane is needed across the road and up the sides of the hill either side.</div>
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Mansell Road East has too much erratic traffic around school times, is narrow between parked cars and the road surface is disgraceful - difficult for bikes. It is used as a rat run and there is frequently intolerant traffic.</div>
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The entrance to Mansel Park(Green Circle) has been made deliberately difficult for bikes to negotiate - particularly when leaving the park coming SE.</div>
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Marginal. Serious consideration of the traffic conditions (and calming them) on Oakley Road and support for cyclists at the Treboura Way crossing should be made.</div>
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Pavements might be used in places by the faint hearted, but of course that is illegal, and if legalised makes it difficult for commuter cyclists who start getting driven off the road by some cars who believe bikes should use the cycle path.</div>
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The difficulties at the crossing of Regents Park Road into Oakley Road (Blue Circle) have already been discussed above. A better alternative is to use the pedestrian lights to cross into St Edmunds road.</div>
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The route then joins Romsey Road for a short bit to cross Winchester Road/Treboura Way. (Shown in thick red line). This bit is completely unacceptable for anyone but the strong and confident. There is quite a steep hill on the South side of the main road. There is almost always a queue for the traffic lights, and Romsey Road is too narrow here to allow cars to pass bikes safely, yet there is rarely any opportunity for them to overtake as there is always oncoming traffic.</div>
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Redbridge Hill and right up to Windermere Avenue, on the other hand is a wide piece of road, with a real opportunity for building e.g. an on road cycle lane protected by armadillos. Resident parrking is needed, but there is plenty of space to provide this off road.</div>
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It would be good, if only a solution could be found for the Romsey Road bit.</div>
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<b>Comments on Map 4:</b><br />
There are a few changes to this route (in Blue lines). After Mansel Park the official route suggests going on a footpath, This is narrow and unmaintained and quite unsuitable for shared use - and very difficult to access when heading South. We suggest keeping to the road. At the Brownhill Way roundabout there are big changes and the old path across a field is now built over. Instead there is a new off road shared cycle path of high quality as shown.<br />
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However the crossing of Brownhill way (red circle) is completely unsuitable, and seriously unsafe.</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">The traffic on Brownhill way (the east-going of which has just come off the M271) is a constant stream and fast in both directions, and in the wrong frame of mind for making gaps to allow bikes or pedestrians to make it across the road.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">There are no traffic signals.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Someone has constructed chicaned barriers in a way calculated to make it as difficult as possible for a bike to get in position to cross, and to make it impossible for a few bikes to get into position at the same time.</li>
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This crossing would contravene every rule in the book if it was subject to Highways England regulations - which it presumably narrowly misses by dint of being a few the otherside of the roundabout from the motorway. Given that the rest of the new cycle route is so good - this is a big #FAIL.</div>
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<b>Is is safe for an 11 year old? </b> </div>
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Only if the Brownhill Way Crossing can be mended.</div>
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<b>Alternative Route (contin)</b></div>
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At the top of Windemere avenue it would be possible to join back with the oficial route (green line)</div>
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However, to avoid the catastrophic Brownhill junction, the red line continues another way. </div>
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This part of the alternative route is all in 20 mph calmed traffic area.</div>
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Th crossing of Brownhill Way (Green Circle) is at traffic lights. It is a bit complex for a bike coming up from Lower Brownhill Road and could certainly be improved with some road paint and signage.</div>
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<b>Is is safe for an 11 year old? </b> </div>
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Yes.</div>
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The final bit of the route passes the Ordinance Survey on a wide and smooth dedicated cycle path on a wide pavement and then joins a dedicated path through the fields and up to Nursling.</div>
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Here ends Southampton (we think?). But we presume that the signage will be continued until the path joins the NCR246 (Lee Lane).</div>
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A further View on the Whole route.</h3>
The following commentary was submitted by another senior and experienced member of SCC. Although there might be some disagreement about what the official route was intended to be (there have been many maps issued and they are not consistent at the detail level) we can see that this member takes quite a different view of the earlier part of the route (which I suggest is largely OK) - for example suggesting that using Shirley Road would be preferable to the options discussed here.<br />
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Of course, Shirley Road/ High Street is the direct route. Given the width available, it would appear to be the obvious route. The failure of the council to provide decent cycle infrastructure when the road was completely re-fashioned in quite recent years is held up in Campaign History as the most obvious example of the Council's anti-cycling attitude.<br />
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However, with the road in the state it is in now I cannot agree with the author that Shirley Road is suitable for cycling by any one other than the most confident cyclists. It fails on every one of the points for a good quiet cycle route, except road surface.<br />
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But the commentary below does show us, as we know, that cyclists come in all shapes and sizes, and in all levels of confidence and ability. <br />
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Summary:</h3>
I think in defining these quiet on-road routes we need to strike a careful balance between what is suitable for the unconfident or young cyclist and what is the fastest route from A - B. But I think we will do people the most favours be selecting the safest route. Commuters who make the journey regularly can refine the route as they see fit for their own level of skill and confidence.<br />
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At present I cannot recommend *any* of the routes as really suitable, but either would be adequate (and the alternative preferred) if we could cure either the Romsey Road crossing of Winchester Road/Treboura Way or the Cycle lane crossing of Brownhill way.<br />
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<b>Another Member's Comments: Cycle Route Station-Nursling</b></h4>
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Station - Paynes Road</h4>
Poor surface, busy commercial traffic in Millbrook Road and when crossing Waterloo Road. The crossing of Paynes Road is difficult and potentially dangerous; Park Road here is usually narrowed by parked cars so that cyclists are often head-on to motorists. When travelling northbound it would be safer and more pleasant to divert east to Shirley Road and cross Paynes Road at the traffic lights.<br />
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Paynes Road - Regents Park Road</h4>
Richmond Road is usually busy. A much quieter and slightly shorter route is Firgrove Rd - Nelson Road. Either route leads to the poorly surfaced Foundry Lane, which is quite busy with motor traffic which is often fast. A safer alternative to this section is Shirley Road, which is much better surfaced, with few parked vehicles and is also easier to navigate for those not familiar with the area. The only disadvantage is the presence of pinch points, though these could be improved by the provision of adequately wide advisory cycle lanes.<br />
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Regents Park Road - Mansel Road West</h4>
Oakley Road is busy and fast with parked vehicles. Although it crosses Tebourba Way at traffic lights this junction is unpleasant, particularly since the cyclist (in either direction) has to climb a hill with a stream of overtaking traffic. North of Tebourba Way the route is tortuous and goes through residential streets where the cyclist will encounter motorists moving off or parking, sometimes on the "wrong" side of the road.<br />
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The entry into the Mansel Park is very narrow, while at the north end the cyclist has to cross two streams of traffic.<br />
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A safer, more direct route, which is also far better surfaced and easier to follow is from Shirley High St to the "Old Thatch" lights and then via Redbridge Hill to Windermere Avenue. The only disadvantages to this route are the double mini-roundabout at Wimpson Lane and, southbound, emerging from Redbridge Hill onto Romsey Road. The latter could be circumvented by taking the route onto the service road to the S of Redbridge Hill and then providing crossing points at the Tebourba Way crossroads; this route is already used by many cyclists. The route could be further improved by a "crawler" on-road cycle lane up the hill from Tebourba Way into Shirley.<br />
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Mansel Road West - Brownhill Way</h4>
Mansel Road West has a poor surface and is very busy when children are drived to and from the school. Colne Road, though busy, might be an alternative.<br />
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The southern access to the new shared use path is a very tight "wheelbarrow turn", particularly since the road is narrowed at this point, so that cyclists are forced to use the whole width of the road. The barriers at the end of the path should be modified (moved away from the road &/or the gap widened) so that cyclists travelling in either direction have more leeway to manoeuvre safely.<br />
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Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848833417548770506.post-62559245311641517112017-02-03T10:22:00.003-08:002017-02-04T03:24:01.189-08:00"Happy City" by Charles Montgomery: A digested read<h2>
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Happy City</div>
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(Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design)</div>
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Charles Montgomery</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Penguin Books, 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> …and its relevance to cycle campaigners in the UK</span></div>
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My Summary Summarised:</h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For the future of humankind we need to become less dependant on fossil fuels. To do this we need to be less dependent on transport and live quite densely, in cities, so cities need to be happy places.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a confession to make.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I work as an academic, but I have never before in my life read a non-fiction
book through cover to cover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Theses and papers yes, but book, no. </span>I read this
book right through. It explained to me much of what I have seen happening as cities throughout the world are beginning to change their shape
and behaviour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have become increasingly interested in Urban Design and so
called “Liveable cities” in recent years, since spending 2011, one of the
happiest years of my life, living in the centre of Montpellier in the South of
France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wherever I went in Montpellier I
was aware of the efforts that the (socialist) City and Departmental Councils
were taking to make us residents happy – I found myself boring visiting friends pointing
these things out. So it was a pleasant surprise to me to realise that there was
a whole science to urban design for happiness and this book is an interesting
introduction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Place de La Comedie, Montpellier City Centre. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cars were removed from the whole city centre and a large area which had been a massive car park was recreated as an<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> enormously popular public Square and Gardens which are well used by the city, business and the citizens. It is </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">now served by frequent trams and the SNCF/TGV station is just a few hundred meters away. Footfall in local shops and cafés increased enormously.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The book is written by a very well informed Canadian
journalist, and its style is largely anecdotal and easy to read. However, it is
very well referenced and there is no doubt about the provenance of the
underpinning information. There is an inevitable North American slant to the book, but the European, and indeed global, dimension is well covered.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found the bigger picture presented in this book valuable. For that reason I hope other cycle campaigners will find it worth a read, or at least appreciate my digested read. 'Happy Cities' explains where cycling and walkability fit into the much bigger picture of the sort of urban designs and planning we need for the next century. In cities where councils already get the point that this book makes, cycle infrastructure is already a priority. City councils that repeatedly fail to make even the simplest of improvements to cycle infrastructure (like my own in Southampton) are still living in an old paradigm where motorised transport is the lifeblood of the city and all other needs are subservient to that.</span></div>
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Council</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The basic premise of the book is that the job of the city
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and Happy; </i>everything else (e.g. economic development, social support, the
transport system, the architecture of the city centre, support for the
disadvantaged) is part of the above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Montgomery then looks at what makes us happy – he treats the
science of happiness as a specialism of economics, and drawing on many examples
from Sociology, Psychology, Economics and Urban Design he goes on to conclude
that the main contributors to happiness are good social contact and a feeling
that you contribute something worthwhile to the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps surprisingly increased wealth only
contributes to happiness up to the point that a person earns the average for their
society – above that it can have a negative correlation. Things that make
people unhappy are poverty, loneliness, poor health, fear and a feeling of lack of control
of their lives. There is also a very strong inverse correlation between
happiness and time spent commuting; people who walk to work most often have the
highest life satisfaction.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">From Happy City (c) Penguin</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">
Why Cities became Rundown in the Post-war period</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the beginning of the last century the majority of people
lived in communities of some kind or another, varying from villages through
towns to cities (and villages within cities).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No-one can deny that there were many aspects of life in these days that
contributed to <i>unhappiness</i>, but also, the author argues there were aspects of these lives, t<span style="font-size: 12pt;">o do with community, trust and a sense of belonging, that made people happy. However, industrialisation made the
lives of some city dwellers overcrowded, unhealthy and undignified; the more
well off moved to select areas of the city and cities became segregated.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The middle classes built new areas around the
town, suburbia, with less pollution, less noise and some pleasing greenery
around their houses. Tram and bus services of the period served them well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then came the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Carlton Reid’s excellent book “<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00V7Z9FOO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" target="_blank">Roads were not Built for Cars</a>” tells this history, which is repeated here, of how rich car owners and their automobile clubs
lobbied government and used their wealth and influence to change the ownership
and purpose of roads in just a few decades. By the post war period cars had
become the rightful owners of the road, and other users were increasingly
banished and intimidated, and main roads were pedestrian free (no
jaywalking) for “their” safety. Roads then spilt communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An immediate consequence of the increasingly affordable car
was that people started to move further away from the city in search of bigger,
more private affordable housing, and coupled with population explosion we saw
the rapid growth of “sprawl” – suburbs or “exurbs” with no centres. And as their housing is much less dense than in cities and the original suburbs, everything is some distance away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People living in these places are almost
inevitably forced to drive for even the simples of needs – work, the gym, the
shops, the doctor, the hairdresser, the pub etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As better off people moved out of the cities they took their
tax revenues to out of town areas, leaving cities to survive on the taxes
paid by the poorer people left behind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Perhaps North America has suffered worse than most of Europe
from sprawl. The book spends much space on this topic and and on the witchcraft of
Zoning Codes which prevent North Americans from changing the layout of their
sprawl, for example to build some kind of a commercial and social centre to
make an area liveable. But we are not exempt in Europe – I know plenty of
people in the greater Southampton and Portsmouth area who have no access to
even the most basic facilities without using their cars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The final, and possibly most important contribution of the
book is to look at what can be done to address the problems caused by the car
and sprawl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Montgomery answer is that we all need to live closer to
our places of work and to the services that we need, and this requires us to live
in higher density housing – cities. But these cities do not have to be the
overcrowded, dirty, polluted, noisy, crime-ridden, unfriendly, high-rise and
slum dwellings of history. He looks at examples of good practice from a number
of famous “happy cities”, Vancouver, Copenhagen, Paris and even Bogotá (who
would have thought it?), and includes recent developments in London and New
York.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Things that make people happy about cities are:</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good public transport</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Happy cities have the main routes delivered by
excellent high speed public transport (Light railways, trams, tubes, or even
busses with dedicated traffic free lanes), connected to a network of more local
services with a frequency such that people do not need to consult a timetable
(at least every 15 minutes) – with live information systems to allow people to
know the time of the next service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pedestrian and cycle
infrastructure</b> that is prioritised (or appears to be prioritised) over
private motorised traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cycling, in
particular, can allow people the independence to get around cities quickly and
efficiently, and they will happily prefer to cycle than drive if the
infrastructure supports them. (And remember that a tram-load of people or the
equivalent number of cyclists take up far less street space and create far less
pollution, noise and danger to the rest of the citizens than the equivalent motorised
transport).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Green Space:</b> In a
city in which most of the citizens live in relatively high density accommodation
it is important to provide space – parks, gardens - that provide quiet and open
space for people for all sorts of use, from skateboarding through to sitting
and people watching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Copenhagen even
involved their “down-and-outs” in designing the space they wanted to allow them
to get drunk without offending others!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (</span>Southampton has wonderful parks and the Common – and the excellent use
that is made of these spaces is central to the Southampton experience.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> The Emerald Necklace in Boston: Green Space was designed into the city as a set of linear parks. Restored in the 1980's to make the city more liveable. Other cities are trying to retrofit such spaces.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Quiet</b>: The noise
of engines, background traffic, sirens, horns and people behaving loudly or aggressively
are all know to put people on edge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People are happier without this noise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Calming traffic, traffic free areas and more green space all contribute
to greater quiet and general happiness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Community and trust:</b> People feel happiest in places they feel they belong, and people feel most comfortable amongst people they know (even if by that we mean that they pass on the street every morning). According to Montgomery, "<i>our trust in neighbours, police, governments and even total strangers has a huge influence on happiness, and when it comes to life satisfaction, relationships with other people beat income, hands down".</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, streets
that have been fully fashioned for motor vehicles do not make the best places casual
meetings and developing the sort of nodding acquaintances that lead to trust in
a neighbourhood.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He refers to the work
of </span><a href="http://www.jsadikkhan.com/streetfight-the-book.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Sadik-Khan (Streetfight)</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in New York where they showed that "</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">reducing the number of lanes on carefully
selected streets or closing them entirely not only provided pedestrian space
and breathed new life into neighborhoods, but also actually improved traffic.
Simply painting part of a street to make it into a plaza, bike, or bus lane not
only made the street safer, it also improved traffic and increased bike and
pedestrian foot traffic and helped local businesses to prosper".</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Equality and Fairness: </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is excellently summed up in a quote from the book,
attributed to ‘Enrique Peñalosa, then mayor of Bogotá, Columbia: </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>One of the requirements for happiness is equality. Maybe
not equality of income, but equality of quality of life and, more than that, an
environment where people don’t feel inferior, where people don’t feel excluded.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So if we accept this point, the city must be seen to invest
as much in public infrastructure (green space, meeting space, walkability,
public transport) for the poor as it does for the better-off.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My take home message from this book</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The population of the world is expanding fast, and at the same time we need to reduce greenhouse gases to slow global warming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">City dwellers produce around 70% less greenhouse gases than their rural neighbours or sprawl dwellers (due to less use of transport, and the economies of smaller denser housing, and the economies of providing services to them). Blessed be the city dwellers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People who live away from towns and cities still mostly have to travel to work in those cities. The longer a person’s commute time the unhappier and more stressed they will be. Upon them shall be a curse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People who need to use roads lots spend lots of time in traffic jams, and lobby road providers to improve the network – the budget for roads will never be enough to catch up with the demand or the induced demand when new roads are created (the M25 effect!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is an import lack of equity (in terms of share of the public purse) between those who live in cities, who:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">need less roads;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">often use financially viable public transport, walk or cycle;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">produce less greenhouse gasses;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for whom providing public services is much more efficient</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">compared to those who rely on cars for transport who:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">clog up the cities in which other people live with three lane highways carving up residential areas;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cause pollution affecting other peoples' children;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">demand car-parking taking up much of the potential public space in cities;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">need greater financing for provision of distributed public services.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Investing in well designed city environments with walkable neighbourhoods, good cycle infrastructure and minimal through roads for cars makes for happier citizens and is a good blueprint for the future of humankind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks as ever to my partner Su White @suukii for her contributions.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Dear Southampton City Council,</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I’d like to provide feedback on the budget proposals but the questionnaire steers me to answer questions I am not particularly interested in and fails to address the issues that I and many people like me passionately care about.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">So first I should say that in general the council seems to be doing a good job in rebuilding Southampton city centre from the empty unloved city it was 30 years ago into something that is beginning to look cared for and inhabited. I know that budgets are very tight and I understand all about the difficulties and compromises of making change happen in such an environment. So generally, in most respects I am a happy citizen.</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">But there is one area that worries me enormously.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">We are poisoning the air, the world and ourselves (the people of Southampton) with pollution. The evidence I have shows that this is the biggest new threat to the health of the population of Southampton - even bigger than type B diabetes. (</span>Poor air quality in urban areas costs the English economy between £4.5 to £10.6 billion a year at 2009 prices and values. Road transport is likely to be responsible for about half of the deaths attributed to air pollution in
the 34 OECD countries. Every year in the UK, outdoor pollution is linked to around 40,000 deaths.)</div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Southampton City Council is responsible for this. So you are responsible for the illegal levels of pollution and the 100’s of deaths that can be directly attributed to air quality issues locally. The government (the Tory government - normally inclined to deny such science) have required Southampton to implement a Clean Air Zone by 2020. The evidence says that we are about as bad as it gets in the UK. </span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">And yet you have done very little about it and this budget consultation makes no mention of dealing with the air quality issues, or the investment required to ensure we meet government's clean air zone requirements.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I appreciate that this is not a simple matter - decades of shortsighted mismanagement of the transport policy in Southampton have carved our city up with major roads encouraging HGVs to drive through the centre of our town and made it almost impossible to get around greater Southampton without a car. Changing these deep dependencies on motor transport will be a long term project.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">But there is one thing that could be done now, could be done reasonably cheaply and would contribute to making Southampton an even better place to live….. make Southampton Cycle Friendly, and make a step change in the number of short journeys done by bike, and at the same time enhance the city for all of those not encased in motorised vehicles.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">This year Southampton City Council produced a draft Cycle Plan. This plan is very encouraging and makes all the right sort of noises, yet there is no serious budget for it! Certainly not its fair share.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">At present just over 2% of journeys around Southampton are made by bike. This is very low by most city standards - The best cities in Europe get to 50% of journeys, and even Portsmouth down the road from us puts us to shame.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">The Southampton Cycle Plan suggests the modest and completely achievable target of getting the bike share to to 10% of all journeys. </span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">There is no question about how to do this. It will not be achieved by publicity and encouragement. It requires investment and change in transport infrastructure. In every city where proper, *safe*, commuter cycle infrastructure has been built the mode share moves to 10% easily. Build it and they will come.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">So, any reasonable person might suggest that if the council is serious about this they would ensure that cycle infrastructure gets 10% of the transport budget. Actually, given the serious underinvestment in cycle infrastructure for so many years it would be the right time to do somewhat better than this. And of course the taxes collected form the Clean Air Zone could supplement this and make a step change to Southampton and provide the opportunity for the city to become a beacon for innovative good practice - A city that turned itself around and invested in its citizens. At present the council spends nearly all its transport budget on improving motorised access (much of it to the benefit of visitors, rather than residents). This spending actually induces *more* traffic, rather than on attempting to reduce the traffic flows through the city.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">And because there is so much traffic, 15% of all accidents in Southampton involve cycles (who make up just 2% of the traffic)! How many people have to die or be seriously injured before the council will take the safety of this portion of its citizens seriously? </span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Southampton’s failure to budget properly for air quality and for changing the transport priorities in the city are costing our health and in the extreme, our lives.</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">On the other hand a sensible re-allocation of the transport budget could:</span></div>
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li1"><span class="s1">Improve our air quality - at least to make it legal.</span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s1">Improve public health by improving citizen activity</span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s1">Improve citizen happiness by allowing the the freedom of safe and enjoyable mobility around the city</span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s1">Allow children the independence of getting to school on their own.</span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s1">Improve commerce in shopping ares by allowing greater footfall and pedestrian access</span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s1">Improve accessibility for those who travel by wheel chair, or by bike as walking is difficult for them.</span></li>
</ul>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Please would Southampton City Council devote an appropriate amount of its budget to reducing traffic (and its pollution) in the city and increasing the number of journeys made by cycle. This would entirely align with your objectives to ensure</span></div>
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li1"><span class="s1">People in Southampton live safe, healthy and independent lives</span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s1">Southampton is an attractive and modern city, where people are proud to live and work</span></li>
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<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Thank you,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Hugh</span></div>
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Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848833417548770506.post-67323026159704098712017-01-12T05:55:00.003-08:002017-01-12T06:19:57.594-08:00The Strategic Road Network and the Redbridge RoundaboutA post from Liz Batten on the "I would Cycle in Southampton if.." Facebook Group on 09/01/17 alerted me to the existence of the wonderful document "<a href="http://www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/ha/standards/ians/pdfs/ian195.pdf" target="_blank">INTERIM ADVICE NOTE 195/16: CYCLE TRAFFIC AND THE STRATEGIC ROAD NETWORK</a>" from Highways England. Even more exciting was the offer of some associated <a href="https://cycletraffic-elearning.com/" target="_blank">e-learning</a>. What could be more fun? The opportunity to understand more about the rules and advice that traffic engineers work to, along with the opportunity to evaluate someone else's efforts at teaching on-line!<br />
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I spent every spare minute for the next couple of days working through the document and its e-learning - and I had also recently spent some time reading through Cycling UK's "<a href="http://www.cyclinguk.org/sites/default/files/file_public/infrastructure-overview2abrf.pdf" target="_blank">Cycle-friendly design and planning</a>" and Cyclenation's "<a href="http://www.makingspaceforcycling.org/MakingSpaceForCycling.pdf" target="_blank">Making Space for Cycling: A guide for new developments and street renewa</a>l" as I am currently preparing a blog post to discuss what would be the *minimum* acceptable standards of bike infrastructure that might kick start the expected Cycle Boom. So this was really interesting!<br />
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As fas as the e-learning was concerned it was pretty amateur (although I am not sure I would be able to suggest how to do it better!). The pedagogic strategy appeared to be "Read/watch/look at this, then we will ask you some questions to test your recall" or occasionally "Here are some questions which will require you to go into the IAN document and find the answer". But I admit that it did help me to find my way through some otherwise very tedious stuff.<br />
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I'll spare the reader the summary of the document (a later post)!), but its probably important to understand its context. This "note" gives instructions to traffic engineers regarding the requirements for cycle infrastructure for ALL roads (the strategic road network) run by Highways England. It uses vocabulary like "must" and "shall" - no options. It does also contain some conditions under which engineers do not have to keep to these instructions. (Usually to do with "it would be impossible" or "we are too far down the implementation stage to change the plans now"). It would be interesting to do an FOI to find out how often these exceptions are used!<br />
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There is an issue of particular importance to Cycle Campaigners at the moment.<br />
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The Redbridge Roundabout (connecting Redbridge Road - A33 - A35, to the M271) is part of the SRN. Highways England, as we know form the recent Cycle Forum, is intending to try to increase traffic flow from the East (Southampton) onto the roundabout and north into the M271. To do this it will get rid of the lights, and it also wants to get rid of the pedestrian and cycle crossing across the feed roads. See my possibly inaccurate sketch below...<br />
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Highways England have assured us that there is no problem as there is a subway under the South part of the Redbridge roundabout and a (cycle) bridge over the North-East part of the roundabout. You can just see them on the map above.<br />
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The pedestrian / cycle crossing is *much* used. At present this does not effect traffic flow much as they can sync with the lights on the roundabout, but when these lights are taken away it will then be those nuisance pedestrians and cyclists (you know, the local residents who actually live here) who will slow down the progress of all that traffic that causes all the pollution in Southampton! </div>
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Members of the of Southampton Cycle Campaign present at the Southampton Cycle Forum were worried about these changes on many different levels but were presented with a "fait acompli", and were told that there would be improvements to the underpass/bridge infrastructure. When they attempted to question "what sort of improvements?" no answer was forthcoming ..</div>
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Now this is where IAN is important! (Interim Advice Note 195/16), remember? Section 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 cover the design requirements for "Underbridges" and Sections 2.5.3 - 2.5.7 cover the design requirements for "Overbridges".</div>
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<i>The location and alignment of underbridges and their accesses shall be arranged</i><i>so that cyclists do not have long diversions from a direct line of travel.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>The length of the underbridge shall be minimised in order to maximise natural light</i><i>levels, and the gradient of access ramps shall also be minimised (Figures 2.5.1</i><i>and 2.5.1.1). These design characteristics can help maximise forward visibility</i><i>and levels of natural light as well as the comfort (reference 2.2.1) of users</i><i>travelling through the underbridge. </i></blockquote>
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<b>(so that's 3m + 1m margins at each wall- 5m wide as I understand it)</b></div>
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<i>The width of a two-way cycle track shall be a minimum of 3.0m plus an additional</i><i>0.5m margin clearance to each parapet (Table 2.2.11.1). Where a footway is</i><i>required, additional width shall be provided and the footway shall be separated</i><i>with a kerb. </i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The evidence of this was clear this morning, when I was interviewed by Julian Clegg on Radio Solent - just after the 0700 News. And after the 0800 News, Pete Boustred, the City Strategic Transport Manager, gave a response. (You can listen to this again - details at the bottom of this post)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before the interview the BBC reporter, Jess Parker, gave an excellent summary of the highlights of the Southampton Cycle Plan. You can read the plan, and my response to it, and make your own response from my previous blog, <a href="http://cyclists-dismount.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-southampton-city-council-strategy.html" target="_blank">The Southampton City Council Strategy for Cycling</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I explained that Southampton City Council has produced previous Cycle Strategies but they have sunk without trace, and that many cycle campaigners are highly cynical about the real intention of the council in this version of the plan, believing that the council are merely going through the motions of satisfying government that they are addressing their appalling transport statistics and air quality figures without any real intention of doing anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The "headline" for this item was "Doubts have been Raised about the Council Ten Year Cycling Plan", and it provided the council with a real opportunity to deny the doubts and demonstrate real commitment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It didn't start well. No-one from the council was prepared to be available to answer the challenge, and Pete Boustred, who gave the response is a council employee, not a member of the council. He is the man that manages the work - not the politician who is responsible for the vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It went from bad to worse. Pete said the the plan was ambitious. The plan is not ambitious at all - it is conservative in the extreme. The ambition is to increase cycling by 10% each year for 10 years, which will get us to only just more journeys by bike than Gosport already has, and still way short of the "real" cycling cities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now most cycle campaigners would be happy with a plan that is conservative if that means it is realistic and will really happen. So Julian Clegg pointed out that I had done a back of the envelope calculation that showed that the first four years of the plan would cost about £2M per year, and he asked Pete if that money was in the budget.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No. That money is not in the budget, and Pete gave the same shifty answer that is in the plan - "We will look for offers of funding bids", and he did admit that the allocated budget is about £0.5M per year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is absolutely not satisfactory. <i>The accident rate for cyclists, alone, should be justification for doing more</i> -<i> how many people have to die to prove the point? </i>(16% of all accidents in Southampton involve cycles - When these sort of stats hit the Netherlands in the 1970's, the people started the "Stop The Child Murder" campaign which changed the country)</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Actually, the first four years of the plan does not get get us anywhere near 4/10ths of the stated aim of the ten year plan. We actually need far MORE than this.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Southampton has the fifth worse air quality figures in the country, in spite of the fact that there is very little industrial pollution - it all comes from ships and transport. If the council is serious about addressing this then one of the most effective ways would be to significantly increase the number of journeys by bike. This is a perfectly realistic ambition, when we know that 50% of journeys in Southampton are less than 3 miles!! Money should be coming from environmental budgets to address this.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whenever there is a new development it should only be allowed if the development makes a contribution to the cycle infrastructure. The cycle plan actually suggests that this will indeed happen. (Imagine if new developments did not have parking, or pavements!). But there is no sign of it so far - for example the new West Quay Watermark development removed an essential cycle route from the esplanade up to the centre of town, with no replacement, instead forcing bikes to mix with two lanes of dense traffic on a steep hill, or else get off and walk. You can hardly blame the cycle plan cynics for pointing out that this is not the behaviour of a council that has any seriousness about creating a "Cycle City".</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">External funding would be good too! From central government perhaps, but, for example, one could point to the damage done to the roads and the environment by lorries going to the docks (often driving through the city centre instead of coming in via the M27), and ask whether ABP might consider sponsoring a few cycle lanes from their considerable profits. Or maybe companies such as Carnival that fill our port with ships exuding the pollution equivalent to 100's of thousands of cars, even while stationary.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you want to hear the interviews on Listen Again, go to </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and the two relevant sections are at 42:30 - 47:33 and 1:38:10 - 1:43:01</span><br />
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<br />Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848833417548770506.post-31494399663892030622016-12-09T04:53:00.000-08:002016-12-10T01:48:36.926-08:00Change Didn't "Just Happen"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been much heartened </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by a number of recent events which I saw in tweets in the last month</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, as I expect have many other people who care about the way cycling can transform cities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This tweet from road.cc pointed to <a href="http://road.cc/content/news/210765-bikes-outnumber-cars-copenhagen-traffic-first-time" target="_blank">the post here</a> with the full story</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think the graph says it all. Sometime in the late 80's bike riding in Copenhagen started to increase and by the late 90's car use started to decrease, with the result that 20 years later more than 50% of all journeys are now done bike. (Average figures in the UK are around 2% of journeys done by bike, and even in the very best cities it is nowhere near 50%).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things are looking up in London too - there was this from @mragilligan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally there was this from @CarltonReid</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is great for those countries that have invested, but for those of us in the UK (with the exception of a very small number of cities) the situation is much worse than it looks. The red lines shown on the UK map are the Sustrans network. I'm a great supporter of Sustrans, but I would have to admit that realistically these paths are mostly not dedicated cycle infrastructure, but are carefully chosen quiet routes that are not necessarily the quickest route between places - so great for recreation, but often not ideal commuter infrastructure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our family was discussing the reasons why some countries have been so much more effective at building cycle infrastructure than the UK when Tom said ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... and that led me to thinking about what did happen? Clearly at some stage some city councils and governments have been persuaded by the arguments that don't need rehearsing here (liveable cities, pollution, gridlock, noise, health, death on the roads, etc.) and have got behind the cycling movement. Once this happens properly you are in business - </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">planning permissions are only granted when developers <i>improve</i> the bicycle infrastructure, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lanes are removed from roads to make way for the people walking and on cycles, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">employers that allow car-parking pay a tariff towards cycle infrastructure,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">public transport is required to carry cycles for free, etc.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... and everything gets into a virtuous circle; as infrastructure improves, so more people come by bike, so infrastructure is improved to meet the demand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are many cities where this change to a people centred city has happened and I will save a few of their stories for another post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At this moment I am interested in what happened in, say, Amsterdam or Copenhagen in the 1980's that succeeded in convincing governments and city councils to make these changes. It must have been hard! At a time when the car had become king, and Thatcher was reputedly suggesting that a man who didn't have a car in his 30's should consider himself a complete failure, and global warming was still denied by the right wing - it must have been difficult for leaders to be so visionary and to move against what was so obviously the "Peoples' choice" - the car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And indeed, it turns out that, certainly initially, the leaders were not so visionary! They needed persuading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had previously seen the film "<a href="http://bicyclethefilm.com/" target="_blank">Bicycle</a>", and this related the story of Dutch society changing direction after a few well publicized deaths of children on the roads. It all sounded rather consensual and as if society "got it" and changed autonomously. This is not what happened. For a better picture of what happened you could read "<a href="https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/how-the-dutch-got-their-cycling-infrastructure/" target="_blank">How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure</a>", "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bicycle-capital-world-transport-cycling-kindermoord" target="_blank">How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world</a>", and you will read about the formation of Stop de Kindermoord ("Stop the child murder") - the activist group that formed after the deaths mentioned above, and we are told that:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The 1970s were a great time for being angry in Holland: activism and civil disobedience were rampant. Stop de Kindermoord grew rapidly and its members held bicycle demonstrations, occupied accident blackspots, and organised special days during which streets were closed to allow children to play safely."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.. and there is plenty more about critical mass rides, guerrilla cycle path painting, rolling out carpet cycle lanes across parked cars, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So my point is that their leaders did not create the excellent Dutch infrastructure because they were visionaries who saw the right way for society; they did so because a section of society was very forcibly making a case - and that case was right even if not popular! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is really very difficult for our leaders to construct any logical argument against increasing cycling except by showing that there is no evidence of the demand. However, this is usually the sticking point: if the demand is not there then the authorities won't invest, but the majority of people will not cycle until the infrastructure is there, as demonstrated by the London experience in the tweet above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So if we want change in most of the UK, my argument says, then we have to show the leaders (city and county councillors) that there is a demand. How can we do that? In my city (Southampton) 12,000 people turning up for a Sky ride round the streets does not appear to be convincing enough. It seems that if we are going to win this fight we want some of those 12,000 people to be more radically activist. Like the Dutch! (yes, the phonological ambiguity was intended :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't feel very comfortable advocating radical activism. Even in my youth I was always the one to believe that consensus and good sense would prevail if only people understood the facts and the effects that certain behaviours and decisions would have on other people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Southampton, at this moment, the City Council is collecting feedback on a draft Cycling Plan - <a href="http://cyclists-dismount.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-southampton-city-council-strategy.html" target="_blank">see the plan and my feedback in the post here</a> - and there is much discussion in the cycling community about whether this the plan is serious, and how to respond. (I am certain that this story will be the same in councils across the UK). There appear to be two courses of action we could take:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those that have been cycle campaigning longer are usually more cynical. They feel that this plan is nothing more than a sop or concession to government and funding initiatives which require councils to show that they are doing something about transport and about pollution. They feel that the council has absolutely no intention of implementing the plan and they point to the lack of serious funding or implementation detail as evidence for this view. These people argue for a far more activist and confrontational approach to change.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what are we to do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Possibly</u> we have arrived at the point in the evolution of cities and transport systems where even councils are beginning to understand the damage that we are creating? I'd like to believe that this plan genuinely is a first attempt to change things. I've been around change management long enough to know that there will be setbacks on the way, but I'd like to support the council in every way possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I suspect that a bit of "irresponsible" activism (from a lot of people) would help our council to remain responsible and focussed when trying to navigate the difficult times ahead!</span><br />
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Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848833417548770506.post-76061535912931992272016-11-29T09:12:00.001-08:002016-11-30T00:34:49.409-08:00The Southampton City Council Strategy for Cycling<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Southampton City Council have recently published a DRAFT
strategy for cycling in the city. The report is called "Cycling Southampton – A plan for our city 2016 – 2026". It is currently
“out for comment”, <span style="font-size: 12pt;">and can be found at </span><a href="http://www.southampton.gov.uk/council-democracy/have-your-say/cycling-plan-consultation.aspx" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.southampton.gov.uk/council-democracy/have-your-say/cycling-plan-consultation.aspx</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:yourcity.yoursay@southampton.gov.uk">yourcity.yoursay@southampton.gov.uk</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A copy of this report annotated by me is at: </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/z32dyao" style="background-color: white;">http://tinyurl.com/z32dyao</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But annotations tend to focus on the minutiae of a document,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">b. My Top Level Comments on the Strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Our City Vision for Southampton</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #01154d; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Southampton – City of opportunity where everyone
thrives.” </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Our Vision for Cycling in Southampton </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #01154d; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“To transform Southampton into a true Cycling City,
creating a liveable, integrated, thriving and mobile city where cycling is a
daily norm not an exception”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The document is motivated by an introduction with some fine
words about the benefits of cycling to the individual, to the economy, to the
environment and to society as a whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is then divided into a further five sections<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Where Are We Now? A Picture of Cycling in
Southampton today </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This
section looks at the statistics for how much cycling happens in Southampton,
comparing it to some other cities in the UK, and then looks at the extent of
the current infrastructure in Southampton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Headline
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Southampton has above national average levels of
cycling to work, with 4.6% of all trips to work made by bike compared to 2.8%
nationally. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->However, Southampton lags behind places such as
Portsmouth (7.4%), Bristol (7.7%), Gosport (10.8%), and the extremes of Oxford
(17.5%) and Cambridge (29%).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->5.4% of all journeys to school are by bike,
growing from 1% in 2011. This is above the national average of 1.8% <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Cycling’s mode share is 1.4% of all daily
traffic <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Almost 16% of all accidents in Southampton involve
bikes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Many short journeys across the city are still
made by car, with just under half (48%) of all journeys to work less than 3
miles (5km) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Supporting these journeys is a cycle network
that is currently 45 miles in length <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Where Do We Want To Be? – Transforming
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Create a healthy and safe cycling culture
over 10 years,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by delivering and
promoting cycling improvements along 10 corridors, that will see a 10% increase
the number of journeys made by cycling each year”</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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section includes a useful table outlining the challenges to achieving this
vision (both in terms of the infrastructure and peoples’ attitudes and perceptions),
and suggesting some “opportunities” – i.e. what could be done to address these
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strategy focuses on three themes:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Better Cycling</b> – delivering the Southampton
Cycle Network, integrating cycling into the city and providing places for people
to park their bikes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cycle routes discusses the different categories of infrastructure it is
intended to support, ranging from <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Core</b> (“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">segregated, dedicated
and safe paths and spaces for people to cycle separated from traffic. Space and
priority will be managed intelligently and effectively</i>”); <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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less busy corridors .. will use less trafficked routes that can run parallel to
a core corridor or cross one to link with destinations not on the core corridor
.. a good degree of segregation and priority for cycling .. but this may not
extend for the whole length”)</i>; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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permeable mesh of easy and safe local routes that are ..well linked together
through neighbourhoods on quiet streets, cut-throughs (e.g. alleyways or cycle
bypasses, or traffic-less areas.. They will connect people from their front
door to the city and core routes. Within the city centre all the roads will be
treated this way improving the public realm so <u>that it becomes a space that
works for people</u>;</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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free routes through parks and open spaces ..</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.5pt;"> </span></i><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">(some of which may be)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">not suitable
for cycling at high speed and require courteous behaviour to all</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Safe & Easy Cycling</b> – educating about
cycling to raise its profile and train people so that they can start and keep
cycling confidently and safely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This sub-section contains important proposals about signposting and maps
of the cycle routes, as well as proposals about cycle training and maintenance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</b></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Inspiring Cycling</b> – promoting and realising what
cycling can do to change behaviours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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section lists partnerships that will be needed to fund these changes, and provides
a top level plan of the projects that are planned for 2016-2019 to realise the
10 year plan, along with the source of funding, timescale and approximate
costs.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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sections suggests following a methodology developed in Copenhagen for
monitoring the plan by measuring<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Attitudes Survey, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is an enormously encouraging document form Southampton
City Council, and the people who have put the time into this should be thanked
and encouraged to continue to see the strategy through to fruition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some “old-hand” cyclists from Southampton are very cynical
about this plan, as they feel they have seen similar plans before, but the
vision has not turned to reality, and nothing has changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems really important that we understand
how this plan will be enacted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The three areas I would suggest for its improvement are:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This seems an odd criticism for a cycling strategy! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But my point is that what we are trying to achieve
is more than a city in which people cycle lots. The vision talks about “<span style="color: #01154d; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">creating
a liveable, integrated, thriving and mobile city” – and that is indeed the
point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A liveable city is not one that
is dominated by cars and lorries and choked by pollution – it is one in which
is people centred and in which people move around easily and safely and can
hear each other talk at a normal level.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If this strategy is to be successful it needs to be part of
a strategy for transforming the city, and for any transformation to be successful
we need to think about where cars and lorries are prioritised, and where the people
are put first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I would like it to be more aspirational about the sort of
city that we will have that will have this excellent cycling infrastructure,
and to demonstrate how that aspiration aligns with the vision and strategy for
the city as a whole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The report was not convincing to me on the subject of how
much funding will be needed to make this transformation, or whether this
funding will be available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Page 19 and 20 of the report have a useful table of the expected
projects for 2016 to 2019.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The report is
not very clear about the scale of funding expected from any of the sources
listed but a quick back of the envelope calculation shows that this plan would
require about £8M over 4 years or £2M a year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is less than 10% of £21M Council
Transport and Environment<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>budget (taking
no account of the £10M Transformation budget – or any of the other sources
listed such as LEP, Sustrans, Cycling UK or external developers).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Furthermore, the plan for 2016-2019 does not look like
getting anywhere near to 40% of the total aspiration described.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is absolutely no discussion about how this plan will
be governed, directed and managed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
fear is that it will happen behind closed doors, and that the plans will be
changed internally or by external pressures without proper consultation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the project, with a number of externals who have experience in making such
change happen (Amsterdam? Copenhagen? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cambridge?
Even London?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The council would co-opt a number of cyclists
representing the range of types of cycling, ages, abilities and areas of the city,
who would be actively consulted about any infrastructure changes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would be properly understood by all parts of the council, and planning
permission would never be granted without proper consultation and agreement
that cycling has been properly considered and improved by the changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This is definitively NOT what has happened
in the past). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My annotated copy of the strategy at <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/z32dyao">http://tinyurl.com/z32dyao</a>
contains comments about individual facts and sections of the report, but I
think the following are worth pulling out:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We really need cycling to be safer and more social. This is not about better
lights, brighter clothes and crash helmets – it’s about people (in vehicles)
treating people (riding bikes or walking) with more respect. In particular, it
would help if</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The
police were signed-up to the cycling strategy, and took the example from the West
Midland Police of actively pursuing aggressive driving.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Local
public transport and taxi firms sign up to the policy to educate their
drivers to set the best examples of respect and care.</span></li>
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in cycling each year for 10 years (which is a 260% increase over 10 years when
you do the sums).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is really quite a
modest goal – not really a step change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For example, using the figures in the report, if such an increase happened
we would have just under 12% of all commutes by cycle (assuming no other growth
in the population or traffic).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This only
just exceeds the figure in Gosport now, and gets nowhere near the figure in
Oxford.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even Bristol (which has a really
difficult geography and historic infrastructure to make cycling work) already
has 7.7% of commutes by bike. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">I agree that we need realistic and achievable targets, but do wonder if this is setting sights a little low? This looks more like organic growth than step-change. But in the end perhaps, in spite of the inspiring vision at the start of this strategy, organic growth is all we can hope for. I have had no convincing evidence, prior to the publication of this draft strategy, that Southampton City Council is interested in growth in cycle usage, let alone step change.</span></div>
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Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848833417548770506.post-72560142263116135522016-11-27T04:35:00.002-08:002016-11-27T05:23:23.164-08:00Are the Police Simply Lazy?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Prompted by a recent case (see below) I have been watching a number of videos taken by people on bikes using Go Pros and other head mounted cameras. (Search for "Cycle Near Miss" in YouTube to get a selection). These videos certainly raised my adrenaline levels. But the sad thing is that I would have to admit that pretty <b><i>much every day</i></b> in a life of cycling as my main transport I get a frighteningly close pass or some other event such as a left hook, or a car pulling out ignoring my presence, or a parked car opening its door, or a bus half overtaking then pulling in to stop, etc. And I talk to those of my friends who use cycling for their main transport and the story is the same. Thankfully, I have developed pretty good self preservation, and I have only actually been hit once, but that nearly killed me. And it is interesting to note the number of my friends who have cycling injuries caused by third parties. And one friend was killed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fact is that it is quite scary out there on Britain's roads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Obviously one of the reasons is that our infrastructure is not good enough. The motor vehicle is king, and to <i>not drive </i>is seen by some as social failure. As a country we have simply not chosen to invest in cycling as a form of transport, in spite of the manifest benefits to society. The rest of Northern Europe have a different story. See this video to see what difference having proper space for cycles can make (and bad weather is no excuse!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other reason its so scary on the roads is the thoughtless and dangerous behaviour of a <b>small percentage</b> of people driving. In most cases I suspect that drivers are just thoughtless. I don't think the 75 year old who scrapes past inches away from me at 25mph is being deliberately aggressive, but nevertheless they scare the wits out if me, and they need to understand the difference between successfully missing the bike, and overtaking properly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But some of these people driving are deliberately being aggressive to "cyclists" (you know -- those people who cycle on pavements, cycle without lights, slow down traffic, cross traffic lights on red and don't pay road tax in spite of the fact that they insist on the right to have space on the road). These aggressive drivers feel justified in performing close passes if they are unable to go at the speed they want and they cannot overtake. Some take pleasure in seeing the fright they cause - some even shout into the ear of the person on the cycle as they pass!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is this the same in other countries? My experience (and evidence from other cyclists) is that aggression to people on cycles is considerably less in other countries in Europe. I have no hard evidence as to why this is, but talking to residents of other countries I suspect that the following factors are important</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Empathy in society</b>. In a country where cycling is acknowledged as a "good thing", and indeed many drivers also cycle, people driving tend to be much more tolerant. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Insurance and the Law</b>. In many countries, if a vehicle hits a cycle <a href="http://www.slatergordon.co.uk/media-centre/blog/2015/08/cycling-accidents-and-presumed-liability-uk-vs-europe/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">the default liability is on the driver</span></a>, and the vehicle's insurance pays regardless of fault. The extreme care with which French drivers approach any interaction with a cycle is partly explained by this.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The support of the police.</b> In the extreme, where a person driving a tonne or more of steel does behave aggressively towards a largely unprotected person on a cycle we ABSOLUTELY NEED that the police take some action against the driver - even if it is only a warning. <b><i>And this is the topic which started me writing this blog and inspired its title.</i></b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The video below was one of the near misses I watched. The cycle had a SolarStorm on, an Electron flashing away and a dynamo driven halogen lamp, and the cyclist was wearing hi-vis with lots of reflective strips. But car HY62 NUB pulls out right into the cycle forcing him into the oncoming lane. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what this says is</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Noone was hurt</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can't be bothered when there was no actual damage.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(There is no other possible explanation for this opt out. As discussed below, other police forces are happily prosecuting bad driving on video evidence)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is disgraceful, and just sums up all the problems. At the very least the police should take the video and show it to the driver, give the driver a warning and get the driver to apologise. I had a similar beef with the Devon and Cornwall Police (@DC_Police) when a lorry full of rubble overtook @suukii on the brow of a hill in Exeter where the road narrowed considerably. For an agonising moment, watching from behind I could not see her at all and thought she went under the wheels. The overtaking was completely unnecessary at that place and was appallingly dangerous driving. I had all the evidence, but Exeter police said that if no-one was hurt they could not be bothered ("Its not our policy").</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BUT Something must be done. I repeat - <i>If a person takes responsibility for driving around a tonne or more of steel</i> then they must be made to accept responsibility for other people, especially cyclists and pedestrians, who are naked and not clothed with a tonne of steel. Or do we have to wait till people get killed before the police will take this seriously?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hampshire Police are not acting to make society a better place - they are acting to save themselves what would be an admittedly difficult task. "If its difficult - don't bother".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are police forces that are much better than Hampshire and Devon and Cornwall. Traffic police in the West Midlands say that third-party <a href="http://road.cc/content/news/209069-close-pass-footage-has-now-been-used-prosecute-78-drivers-say-west-midlands" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">video footage has so far resulted in the prosecution of 78 motorists</span></a> for passing cyclists too closely. AND YET NO DAMAGE WAS DONE. Well done and thanks <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix" style="background-color: white; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">@</span><span class="PrettyLink-value" style="background-color: white; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">trafficwmp</span>.</span></span></div>
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Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848833417548770506.post-67189505196911979422016-06-03T05:03:00.000-07:002016-06-03T08:08:12.995-07:00What happened to Paynes Road?<span style="font-family: inherit;">Paynes Road is one of the routes off Milbrook Road West /Mountbatten Way which is a three lane each way 50mph dual carriageway into the centre of Southampton. The traffic tends to come up Paynes Road quite fast, in spite of the rumble strips that have been installed at the start of the 30mph limit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As you can see from the OpenCycleMap picture below it is also one of that ways that cycles enter parts of Southampton, coming off the Natioanl Cycle Route 236 route from the direction of the New Forest </span><br />
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One day recently (March?), a new bit of cycling infrastructure appeared on Paynes Road (see the red markup on the map). This, when coupled with other changes to the road seems to actually make life more dangerous for the cyclist. The questions are<br />
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I did ask these questions in the Southampton Cycle Forum, but no-one was able or prepared to give an answer. Maybe this blog post will be helpful.<br />
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Here are some pictures to help. It all starts well :-)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fig 2: Looking South West down Paynes Road towards Mountbatten Way</td></tr>
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In Fig 2 you can see that as the cars come off the main road and up Paynes Road there is a new island which forces traffic away from side of the road, and a cycle way is introduced.<br />
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I'm not actually sure who this cycle lane is for? As shown on the map, there is a small shared footpath/cycle lane leaving the NCR 236 up the <i>other</i> side of this road, and mostly cyclists wishing to join Paynes Road do so later, after the junction with Waterloo Road.<br />
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Fig 3 is taken from the same spot looking forward in the direction the cars are now travelling and this is what you see.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fig 3: Looking North East Up Paynes Road towards Freemantle and Shirley</td></tr>
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Now the cars, which have been persuaded by the previous island to move out to the right to make way for bikes, are suddenly confronted with a newly extended island in the middle of the road, which forces them to swerve in an arc back towards the cycle lane.<br />
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The cycle lane is 3 ft wide and the carriageway measured where it says "SLOW" is 8 ft wide. Thats not wide enough for a big vehicle, (and certainly not enough space for a car to correctly pass a bike) and because of the arc they have to take to go out round the first island, and then in again to avoid the next island, even cars inevitably have one wheel in the cycle lane. They are not being careless - its the way the road takes them.<br />
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Fig 4 is a very brief video taken from near the end of the cycle lane to show what happens.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Fig 4: How Traffic Negotiates the chicane</span></div>
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You can see the ways that cars inevitably make this arc towards the cycle lane, and certainly there is not room for a larger vehicle without actually entering the cycle lane.<br />
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Looking back to figure 3, you might think that the apparent narrowing of the main traffic lane is due to perspective. You would be wrong! The lane does indeed narrow from 8ft to less than 7ft. at the point that the cycle lane comes to an unhelpful end. (See figure 5).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fig 5: The End of the Cycle Lane</td></tr>
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Now, staying with figure 5 we see what happens next. An island in the road forces the traffic further to the left (displacing the bikes which now have nowhere to go). To add insult to injury, just in case the traffic has not pulled hard enough to the left, the white lines at the island extend a foot out into the road. Again, its not really clear whet the purpose of this Island is, other than to cause narrowing of the traffic lane.<br />
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In the distance we can see the traffic lights which form an important pedestrian crossing for the school on the right of the road beyond the church. At this point there is a significant protrusion into the road from the pavement on the left, and there is nowhere left for cycles to go. <br />
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Cyclists dismount? (Or hope that the cars are more generous about filtering in slower moving bikes - which of courtse mostly they are, but not always).<br />
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There is a high risk that someone will get seriously injured here. Going back to my 4 questions at the start of this blog: how and why did this happen?<br />
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<br />Hugh Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644235284986342843noreply@blogger.com0