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these figures underline the need for the rebalance of the public road space following several decades of providing primarily for the minority that uses private cars to get around the inner city some friends stayed in the tavistock hotel for a few days in the summer of last year they live in a pretty quiet rural area and were worried whether they would find it hard to sleep in noisy central london however they were overjoyed to find that they could even leave the window open yeah these hardy rural types eh they said there was a constant background roar of noise from the direction of tottenham court road and euston road but not enough to prevent sleeping and comparatively quiet immediate area they were delighted and refreshed and spent a petty sum in local restaurants and shops given the unexpectedly peaceful environment of the area i can t imagine what it would have been like if all night there had been cars and vans running up and down the road outside the hotel we would never have slept one said to me the calm inner city location of the taviplace cycle route as city dwellers we may find it easy to overlook this but studies show that even if one can switch off to continuous loud noise it does still have a deleterious effect on one s long term mental well being it is all too easy to overlook such benefits brought by large scale traffic calming schemes such as this cycle route indeed as easy to overlook as the great advantages the scheme has brought to pedestrians and adaptable businesses as well as to cyclists finally i need to comment on some misapprehensions you hold that are evident from your remarks you say you might say that anyway shouldn t everyone be walking or cycling we have an ageing population in bloomsbury and king s cross with mobility issues and also blind people visiting the rnib for them there is no choice but to use vehicles this is a very common argument but it is a straw man no one has ever said that everyone must walk or cycle it is blindingly obvious to all that some people cannot do either and must be catered for though it is important to note that they are more likely to be in households without a car but just as no one would argue that not everyone can drive therefore there should be no roads it s is illogical to argue tht not everyone can cycle therefore there should be no safe cycling facilities or that not everyone can walk therefore there should be no pavements it is also important to acknowledge that maybe not many but some blind people admirably brave souls one must say do venture to travel by public transport and we should do all to help encourage such independence i find it is inappropriate to make a jibe about blind people cycling as you did in one tweet similarly in greater numbers for sure many elderly people can and would like to be able to stay active and independent many people in the netherlands carry on cycling well into their late 80s and numbers have risen considerably with the availability in recent years of e bikes and it is very important with our ageing demographic to give people all the help they want and need to stay active and thus healthier the provision of safe calm cycle tracks is again the key here indeed we are already seeing local residents use teh cycle route for the school run parents are now increasingly willing to use the cycle route for the school run something unimaginable without the safe segregated cycle route of course let it be repeated not everyone wants to or can cycle even with safe cycle tracks and we must ensure that people in this situation must be able to maintain mobility in whatever ways they need but you are completely wrong when you say that an ageing population is an argument against the cycle scheme to conclude we may continue not to see eye to eye about it but i hope i have explained the wider thinking and the multi layered nature of what we are trying to achieve i do ask you to consider that the inconvenience of slightly longer journey times can be balanced out by the great benefits to everyone in general and even to you as you get used to the scheme bringing benefits to you too that you currently haven t thought about such as quiet nights cleaner air calmer streets and happier healthier people thank you for your attention taviplace cycle route where next 26 thursday jul 2018 posted by paulgannonbike in uncategorized 4 comments a bike path is only one stage in a journey not a destination it s easy when you spend a lot of time and effort campaigning for the installation of a bike path by which i mean a safe separated dutch style bike path with the necessary intense focus on the technical detail as well as the politics to see the bike path as an achievement in itself once the path is in situ and after sorting out the inevitable snags you should reasonably be able to be relieved of the slog of fighting for agreement with the local authority and overcoming the guaranteed irrational nimbyist opposition and that you ll be able to sit back and enjoy safer more pleasant cycling instead of attending endless numbers of public gatherings site meetings and press calls but life s not like that a bike path is not an end but just one step in a long journey the taviplace cycle route in the bloomsbury area of central london is in the midst of a contested upgrade the local council and camden cycling campaign want to upgrade the route from a single two way cycle path to a pair of one way cycle paths with motor traffic restricted to one direction namely east bound for most of the route this has been trialed in a simple form using armadillos for the last year or two and has worked very well but opposition from the usual suspects taxi drivers the tavistock hotel the bloomsbury residents action group etc led to a public inquiry the inspector concluded that the new scheme should not be given the go ahead but the inspector did say that if the direction of motor traffic flow was reversed i e to run westbound it should go ahead camden cycling campaign has argued that having motor traffic running westbound has major disadvantages it is now up to camden council to decide what to do and whether to reject the inspector s flawed judgment or not ccc s comments can be seen here https camdencyclists org uk 2018 06 taviplace inspectors report and ccclls response whatever the council decides it is clear that the demand for cycling is simply far too high to be catered for in a single two way cycle track indeed that was the primary reason why the council proposed the upgrade in some form or other the two one way cycle paths scheme must go ahead it s worth briefly looking at the history of the taviplace cycle route back in the dark ages of cycling in london some 25 years ago two one way painted cycle lanes were provided on either side of the roads making up the taviplace route with constant parking in the lanes taxis picking up and setting down fares vans stopping to make deliveries the painted lanes were as useless here as they have proved to be everywhere taviplace pre 2000 time limted painted london cycle network lanes camden cycling campaign in the late 1990s proposed to camden council that a two way separated cycle path was needed and after a couple of years of campaigning and with the critical support of some progressive councillors camden council took the decision in 2000 to implement the scheme it should be remembered that at that time there was no london mayor or london assembly and decisions about cycling projects lay with the government office for london with boroughs give some degree of manouevre for local schemes which gave space for camden council to take the brave decision to proceed the gol representative at one of the many meetings that led to camden s council s historic decision said that he agreed that it was a nice idea and he personally would use it but that he was sure that there was no demand as most people didn t want to cycle fortunately he was proved wrong in a short time and the route rapidly became one of london s busiest cycle routes with 1 000 cycle users in the morning peak period cyclists voted with their wheels that safe separated cycle paths were the route they wanted to follow it s also worth pointing out that the availability of safe cycling paths has encouraged modal shift or motor traffic evaporation as small and large companies see that they can ditch expensive motor vans for local deliveries and use cargo bikes instead taviplace two way separated cycle path post 2000 p as elsewhere in london such as the two way cycle tracks on the embankment the policy of introducing safe separated cycle paths is a resounding success less congestion less pollution ad more people travelling with a cheap healthy mode of transport cs3 two way cycle path embankment westminster has had over one million cyclists using it in the period between mid february ad mid july 2018 however the taviplace two way cycle path was provig to be too narrow for two way traffic and as numbers of users built up it became obvious that space for cycling was under resourced actually the term used was over crowded but that s the wrong way to look at it after much campaigning by camden cycling campaign the council agreed that a more radical approach was needed and that they should upgrade the scheme to two one way tracks and with motor traffic should be restricted to one direction which brings us back to where we began this posting and the unsatisfactory conclusion of the public inquiry we are thus currently at a standstill of sorts except that london s traffic crisis cannot be allowed to stand still as the city continues to grow there s tens of thousands more minicabs on the streets and thousands more vans doing deliveries also though an often disregarded factor cars and motor vehicles are getting bigger and bigger so called super sizing thus taking up more space and adding to congestion taviplace two one way cycle paths post 2017 something has to give and re allocating space along the taviplace corridor is an obvious approach so it is hoped that camden council as the courage to do what it knows is right and goes ahead with its proposals if it does then can we sit back and simply enjoy another building block having been put in place to introduce sustainable non polluting non congestion inducing transport in the capital well the answer is no even while planning and hopefully implementing the two one way system it is increasingly obvious that cycle demand will before long outstrip the capacity that even the two one way paths are going to provide this means that we should be thinking already about the next upgrade it s worth noting that this is not a mark of failure but of success the original single two way path was proposed back in 1998 in the expectation that it would sooner or later prove to be inadequate and need upgrading to two one way paths it is already obvious in the morning peak period that the number of people cycling westbound is just about practically catered for by the narrow cycle path standing at the junction of tavistock place and woburn place and looking eastwards in the morning peak period there is a steady path filling quantity of cyclists heading west and fed by a considerable number of cyclists coming out of judd street onto tavistock place camden council has recently given the go ahead for building cycle paths on judd street that will link in with safe cycle routes coming from camden town and kentish town from north across euston road as well as linking up to cycle routes from the south this will as we now know for certain lead to a considerable increase in the number of cyclists using both the camden town judd street and the tavistock place cycle paths attention thus needs to be given to how to cater for the demand on tavistock place in five years time currently despite the heavy cycle traffic and low levels of motor traffic motor vehicles are allocated the greater part of the available road space plenty of cyclists now use the route but many fewer motor vehicles consideration needs to be given to removing all through motor traffic currently only westbound from the whole taviplace route allowing only deliveries where deliveries cannot be catered for by using side roads resident access and disabled access by restricting motor traffic to each block on an access only basis through traffic can be removed to the main road a short distance north euston road and motor traffic levels on teviplace could be drastically reduced the concept being evolved in the netherlands of a fietsstraat literally a cycle street could be usefully borrowed here just as the idea of using safe separated cycle paths was borrowed from the netherlands for phase 1 of the taviplace route back at the start of the age of cycling enlightenment in london back in 2000 dutch fietsstraaten cyclestreets photos mark wagenbuur david hembrow mark treasure cycling embassy of great britain it has been said i don t know by whom that to cycle you need to carry on forwards as if you stop you ll fall off the same is true of planning for cycle infrastructure if you stop planning you ll end up with under resourced cycle routes and that means retarding sustainable pollution free urban transport restraining mobility in the city and encouraging the already chronic motor vehicle induced congestion that is the bane of london even as decisions are being made about what to do following the taviplace cycle route upgrade public inquiry it is necessary to be thinking about planning the next step an open letter to michael white 24 tuesday apr 2018 posted by paulgannonbike in uncategorized leave a comment dear michael white thank for your response to my question about your views of the new london cycle paths which you say you don t like as they are frightening to both pedestrians and non young bloke bikers i m sorry to hear that this is your view of these cycle paths as in my opinion they are precisely the opposite first i must say that your description of them as super cycle commuter highways is fundamentally mistaken they are not super highways but bog standard european style high quality safe separated cycle paths additionally they are not designed for specifically for use by commuters but for cyclists of all ages and genders from 8 85 years of age unfortunately certain british politicians and the british political media culture as you have probably noticed in your job as a political journalist are addicted to bigging things up this has led to them describing the bog standard european style paths as cycle super highways i fear that in this case your normally sharp political instinct for spotting a bit of bigging up has failed you and you have fallen for the hype and envisage the cycle paths as the equivalent of motorways designed for speeding motors this misapprehension led to you hyperbolically tweeting am currently dealing with a tfl super cycle commuter highway proposal which is neither safe not sensible 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