@alice @LivingCooki in the UK, bikes are supposed to ride on the road or in cycle lanes/paths
Now, what do some city planners do? They add a “shared use” pavement, which is a normal pavement but slightly wider, and a painted line down the middle
In theory, cycles get the side closest to the roadway and pedestrians get the other side
In reality, it means that cyclists are forced to interact with pedestrians a lot (because, naturally, people will take up the whole pavement, because sometimes they’re not that wide) and also that cyclists are forced to give way to vehicles every time the pavement ends at a side road
So cyclists actually get no benefit from a shared use pavement, because they don’t get to maintain speed nor do they really have that much extra safety
Better than a bike gutter, worse than anything else
They are such a disaster that the previous government no longer recommended them at all, which says a lot
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Having bicycle lanes on bith sides if the streets is more important than having a physycal seperation between pedestrian and bike lane i think
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@snacks @alice @LivingCooki something is better than nothing, but it’s much better if we separate cyclists from pedestrians as much as possible, while protecting them from road traffic
Making cyclists and pedestrians mix on arterial roads is useless, it’s not that much of a problem in pedestrianised zones since you should be slow there anyway
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