The scheme will impact negatively on car journeys
The scheme will impact negatively on car journeys
The scheme is favouring a small number of cyclists over drivers – cyclists can use the roads.
Scheme is not backed by the majority and is anti-car.
By providing additional support for cyclists you are taking away people’s right to drive where they need to get in a timely manner.
Our response...
The aim of the scheme is to make cycling accessible to a wider audience including the young, elderly, disabled and women who are currently underrepresented by providing safe and direct routes to key destinations.
We acknowledge that behaviour change does not happen overnight. However, where good quality cycle tracks are built, people use them. By providing people with the option to replace some short car journeys (with many cars carrying one passenger), the reliance on cars will reduce over time and contribute to reducing congestion.
The reduction in road width in some places has been carefully considered as part of the design to accommodate the extra space for cyclists and pedestrians to meet the standards set by the DFT. The standards dictate that space is reallocated from the road to accommodate the required extra space for cyclists and pedestrians.
The scheme proposals do not, in general, introduce any prohibition of motor vehicles. The only exceptions are the proposed banned movements at St Ann’s Way, where based on the undertaken survey very few vehicles make the right turn from St Ann’s Way into Southgate Street and left out of Southgate Street. By removing this movement, the additional time saved can be given back to other arms of the junction to reduce congestion.
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