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Hi, a little bit of research. Has your council, government or divine leader introduced any temporary covid measures for the above..... ta!
If they have, I'm unaware of them.
Same here.
Maybe the lack of interest (surprise surprise) after the last lockdown ended makes them think it's not worth it...
Our council has introduced more cycle lanes, close some roads to cars/vans etc and installed some Street bike vaults.
No sign of anything in Lincoln.
Funny... a new cycle lane (a whole 50m long) appeared at some point but think that might have been planned before lockdown.
Ha ha. Anyone remember the Fix Your Bike Voucher Scheme? Gov say they are continuing to release batches of these but not convinced they released that many at all. Currently, there is just an option on the website to submit an email address to express interest in it. Initially 50k in July, then 28k in September, then..... ??
They promised 500,000!
Yes, some pop up cycle lanes, which caused massive uproar and angst here in southampton. The main one, up the avenue turning a main two lane route into southampton into one was removed after a couple of months.
Looks like some others will also be removed after lockdown2.
Basically a massive waste of time, and if I'm cynical a way of passing government money into subcontractors hands for very little value. All whilst they argue the toss about feeding kids school dinners
Tbh the lanes were nice, and I wish they would have stayed, but congestion in the city is ridiculous.
There seems to be zero mention of the previous touted congestion charge which I believe was supposed to be implemented in 2020.... now that would have made the roads safer, encourage cycling and improve air quality
Yes..but it's a shambles because this nation is a herd of backward knuckle dragging car lovers...
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Fitted, and made certain roads great to ride on. Of course it also caused traffic. So people drove over them.. put litter in them..and the council is now removing them.
What. A . waste.
DrP
Also..to show what a news capitol my town is...
Dead fish wash up on beach. is that news..>Worthing thinks so......!
Ha ha. Anyone remember the Fix Your Bike Voucher Scheme? Gov say they are continuing to release batches of these but not convinced they released that many at all. Currently, there is just an option on the website to submit an email address to express interest in it. Initially 50k in July, then 28k in September, then….. ??
They promised 500,000!
The one everyone on here was signing up for to get a free pair of tyres or their dropper serviced and claiming those who really needed it would have plenty to go round? That one yeah?
Nothing in Leighton Buzzard apart from supposedly pedestrianising the high Street.... which is all well and good except there are no signs or bollards to tell anyone it's a no car zone
The bus lane has made a massive positive difference on the A3024 heading into Southampton from the east by bike, every other week through covid ive started at 0830 instead of the old norm of 0630/0700, I honesty don't know how anyone could cycle that route and not be put off cycling for life before the bus lane kicked in... So so hostile with numerous close passes.
It's also made the buses far more punctual!
However, before LINO v2 kicked in last week, the single lane jam of cars was horrendous from 0800. I'm not convinced many have even tried to ditch the car for short journeys, but they love moaning on the Daily Echo about how they are being inconvenienced!
Well there's been the usual autumn/winter increase in [s] potholes [/s] exceptionally effective traffic calming measures. Does that count?
There was a pop-up cycle lane installed along the seafront between Whitley Bay & Tynemouth that was removed at the end of the October half-term holidays. It had been there since first lockdown and was, rather a nice thing...speaking as a cyclist. They also pedestrianised a main street in Whitley Bay on Saturdays - not sure if this is still in force which was also nice. Obviously viewed as a heinous crime by some road users, but I think generally very well received. I could be wrong, however 😉
Bristol was already planning enhancing some cycling infrastructure and pedestrianizing parts of the old city, mostly related to air quality as well as health. Covid just accelerated those plans. They have also closed some streets to cars to force a kind-of one way system through the city. https://www.bristol.gov.uk/transport-plans-and-projects/covid-19-road-changes
That one yeah?
Indeed. Didn't need it myself but a lad I worked with tried (not a cyclist but could easily commute and wanted to get his BSO up and running). He's still waiting...
Well, we got a new bike rack although I don't think it's a temporary measure.
It's a little unconventional looking, but I like the idea that in shaping it like a car it reinforces that idea that 10 bikes can be parked in the space of one car.
It was placed in a parking space, which obviously caused outrage & it does stick out a little bit with all the olde-worlde buildings & other street furniture. But I like it.
It even made the road.cc website!
https://deepings.nub.news/n/review-promised-after-outcry-over-deepings-bike-rack
https://road.cc/content/news/bike-rack-criticised-being-far-too-modern-278041
We've been awarded £200k from sustrans for Spaces for People, but due to various factors including Councillor attitudes we'll be on bloody wave 3 before anything ever gets done 🙁
wider bit of pavement... did not go down well with motorists (or the business owners who enjoyed parking on the double yellows 🤣)
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/road-changes-leave-people-scratching-their-heads-234207/
Just - painted on cycle lanes now protected by semipermanent bollards, bollards to widen pavements, roads closed.
Lots of outrage from car drivers and the measures are only fiddling around the edges but they are there and still there mainly
Local council no, but the county council closed our nearest main road to cars (well shut a bridge) which turned it from a busy ring road to a very quiet semi-pedestrianised road. Fantastic effort.
Local retailers have been up in arms about it (even though there is no parking for cars near any of their shops), but residents seem overwhelmingly in support of it.
Hopefully it will be made permanent as such a big improvement to the environment.
Blimey, that's forward thinking of Deeping - it may have changed in the 25 years since I left though 🤣
I lurk on a forum relevant to the area my Mum lives in (SE London) where they've put in a few Low Traffic Neighbourhoods.
Christ you'd think the world was ending. Apparently, not being able to drive the 4x4 half a mile to Waitrose is an attack on personal freedoms, undemocratic, not what we fought for at D-Day (someone just HAD to mention the war...) and at one point there was even the ridiculous [url= https://fullfact.org/online/did-she-die-in-vain/ ]Clause 61 of the Magna Carta[/url] being floated around.
Naturally this calm, gentrified leafy suburb of our glorious capital city is now a no-go area where ambulances cannot access your dying body, Amazon takes a week to find you and a drive that previously took no more than 3 minutes now takes hours and requires at least two packed lunches. Children have to leave for school before they've got home. That sort of thing.
It has actually had a noticeable effect on walking and cycling, there have been some positive figures in the publicity which naturally has been decried as fake news, biased reporting and a giant conspiracy.
Pau: Bayrou made a few temporary cycle lanes for the first wave (a just before local elections), removed them and hasn't reinstated them for the second wave. 🙁 Happy I voted for ther opposition.
Scottish Borders council have spent £1.2 million on, err, something.
Liverpool created a unicycle lane at sefton park.
wirral created one parallel to an existing cycle lane on the sea front at new brighton , with bollards, pity the fools didn't realise i that it often flooded so would wash the bollards that they didnt anchor down would be washed away, so they threw out about 2 miles of bollards after a few months.
Also i liverpool i give you west derby road, and the classic that is brownlow hill at the start of a steep hill.
Best not to mention the chester bus and bike lanes on the route past the hospital or from Boughton into the city centre, residents just dont understand.
We got some in small town Wales (Powys CC). Planters and bollards along the two main streets which widen the pavement. It reduces car parking space but there's plenty of that anyway. No moaning about it and a small increase in cycle commuting.
Some more long-term measures would be welcome as a lot of people drive less than 2 miles, from one part of town to the other.
My local council closed our high street for pedestrians and cyclists. But the local conservative party through all their toys out of the pram and have generated enough opposition to get it reset. Bunch of .......
Nothing in North Yorkshire.
Salisbury installed some pop up cycle lanes (about a mile on 2 roads). Lost about 10 parking spaces and a loading bay. World ends according to local news comments 😂😂😂
Town centre has also just gone pedestrian friendly, meaning residents and delivery access only - again for a mile or so of roads. Sun implodes, raining fire and molten hot death lava everywhere 😂😂😂
The thing about Salisbury is, it's ****ING TINY. Every single one of the town car parks is about 500 yards to the centre of town. You'd think people were being asked to walk across no mans land amidst a hail of bullets! It's ****ing pathetic. Salisbury does have pretty bad traffic problems, don't need to be a ****ing mensa member to think, gee, maybe if we all drove a bit less it would be better!
We had some pedestrianised streets in Calderdale. Pretty nice where they existed but some where time limited to trading hours so they helped shops.
The council also used some DfT emergency active travel money to help expand an ecargo bike delivery service I set up. It’s like a critical mass is forming, I’ve seen more general purpose bikes, ebikes, bike trailers and people carrying stuff on bikes in the last 6 months than in the last six years.
i research/write about this sort of thing for my work if you want more examples www.beatekubitz.com.
Good work Clover 🙂
Most of the coned-off pop up lanes saw little use, provoking fury from the usual parties and thus disappeared after a few months.
To their credit, Lancs cc / Borough Councils have stuck with a few that blocked off some sizeable rat-runs. Still didn't stop some supposedly environmentally conscious people complaining about it.
They created some coned cycle lanes the length of the A56 Washway Road to Altrincham. They were an utter ****in mess. Absolutely diabolical. Nobody used them because they were so bad, and just continued to use the shit, bumpy, narrow canal cyclepath.
So they dismantled the coned cycle lanes and presumably concluded that nobody used them because nobody wants to cycle so they'll make damn sure they don't waste further money in future on bloody cyclists.
****ers
Some of the ring-road here in Sheffield was converted to cycle lane. It did not last long! For a city that self-identifies as "The Outdoor City" its cycling infrastructure is questionable. There have been improvements in some areas, but it's still reasonably average at best.
Other thing to mention, is there has been a complete lack of Maintenance on the new cycle lanes, so they are filled with wet leaves, twigs and all sorts of debris. So not really that safe to use any way now autumn / winter is here without regular sweeping. Probably ok on a mtb, I’d be in the road if I was on a road bike, causing more outrage I imagine