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als but progress among local authorities remains extremely slow when it was first announced that the mayor was intending to add walking to the cycling commissioner s job description there was some concern among cycling campaigners that it would dilute the success shown by the previous incumbent andrew gilligan in pushing effective cycleway schemes through against the opposition of some parts of tfl as well as the black cab lobby one person asked on twitter why the commissioner needed to take on walking as well as cycling on the grounds that pedestrians already have a ubiquitous network of dedicated space in london the pavements while cycling desperately needed its own safe infrastructure these contrasting needs were it was suggested necessitated separate champions i disagree there are of course many differences between the needs of people cycling and of pedestrians but they also have much in common most especially in the existing social structures which accord motor vehicles a much higher priority in transport planning and implementation as vulnerable road users a fact attested by the very poor injury rates for pedestrians and people cycling in the uk compared to our partners in europe there is a common interest in tackling the power balance or more accurately the power imbalance on our roads one area of commonality between cycling and walking is the predominance of injuries being inflicted at junctions accounting for between about two thirds and three quarters of injuries to walkers and people cycling though it is true that pedestrians have access to a network of pavements like people who cycle they face serious problems crossing the road at junctions according to the highway code motor drivers should give way to pedestrians crossing the road into which the driver wants to turn his or her motor vehicle as everyone knows this rule is universally ignored and motor vehicles always take priority at junctions even at driveway and car park entrances etc if there is no specific set of traffic lights giving pedestrians a green phase to cross the road then they must wait until there is a gap in the motor traffic and then cross the road as fast as they can manage even at key tourist sites pedestrians are all too often left with no help in crossing the road except for a gap in the motor traffic this is replicated at thousands of junctions daily throughout london and is largely ignored as a problem there is a fantasy world in which official road safety organisations remind people on twitter of pedestrian priority at junctions but life rumbles on totally disregarding this injunction not to run people down to cross the road in london wait for a gap in the traffic and then run for your life some local authorities recognise there is a problem and have eagerly adopted variations of so called shared space but these schemes have all or nearly all been failures they don t tackle the underlying problem and sell the idea that fancy design paving slabs can be effective when they can t the most notorious example is the multi million pound flop of exhibition road in kensington where thousands of visitors on foot flock to world class museums only to be squeezed into inadequate ill designed pavements and forced to yield to motors at every minor junction the multi millon pound resurfacing of exhibition road has not altered the traditional hierarchy of priority to motors this van driver could easily have slowed slightly and let the pedestrians cross the junction but chose not to the key policy objective for anyone who wants to stimulate walking levels in our towns and cities must be to change priorities at junctions this can be achieved by a change in the law to give greater legal force to the stipulation in the highway code which is only advisory and is not the law as recently proposed by british cycling and chris boardman it s not clear whether the walking and cycling commissioner and the mayor have the power to effect this legal change and it is unlikely that the present central government will be sympathetic to such sentiments that would no doubt be reported by the uk s mainly foreign owned national press as a war on the motorist another way to achieve the objective is to re design junctions providing continuous footways at junctions where physical design of the junction which requires motors to slow right down to cross the raised pavement combined with appropriate give way markings signs this approach is certainly within the power of the mayor and if the walking and cycling commissioner wants to stimulate walking the best approach would be to plan a rapid and widespread roll out of installation of continuous footways on tfl roads and to encourage boroughs to adopt the same approach on their roads there is a connection here with high quality cycle infrastructure as installing such safe cycling space offers the opportunity at the same time to install continuous footways at junctions alongside the cycleway across the junctions this would be an appropriate policy for a true walking and cycling commissioner rather than a walking or cycling commissioner the coming of the cycleway would also bring significant benefits to pedestrians there s a marketing person s dream combination for encouraging people to venture into cycling too much effort has been focused on marketing and training as a substitute for implementing safe cycling space painted cycle routes are also popular with local authorities but make no effective difference in conditions for people wanting to cycle but fearing the mad chaos of the present system of mixing with motors going at much higher speeds london s failing new largely painted quietways are yet another example of how the real issue has been dodged they contrast however with the much higher quality of some of the new cycle super highways unfortunately with an absurdly over hyped name these are in fact near bog standard cycleways of the sort that have been standard in places such as the netherlands denmark and elsewhere there s nothing super highway about them rather they are just good old effective every day design and they have had the same result here as in those other countries more people cycling those on bikes now account for 70 of traffic on blackfriars bridge and all the high quality cycleways have seen big increases in use the previous mayor and his commissioner made real achievements will their successors have the same political will however the mayor sadiq khan has been less than enthusiastic about cycleways preferring to put some of his eggs his word into the ineffective because politically unchallenging quietways and rolling back or currently appearing to roll back on some of the cycleways in the planning pipeline will the new walking and cycling commissioner throw his weight behind more cycleways or will he fall in line with tfl and the mayor in promoting projects that do not engender nimby opposition from the decaying black cab trade and a few local people who claim that any provision of safe cycle routes would for example prevent them from getting from swiss cottage to theatreland they apparently being unable to conceive of using the tube bus or bike will he be able to take on the forces of stasis within tfl who can call on all sorts of bureaucratic tricks to stymie any progress and it looks likely from the mayor s office too or will he cave in to the loud nimby lobby the nimbys loudly proclaim armageddon if any tiny sliver of road space is not devoted exclusively to motor vehicles but when camden council consulted on its proposal to upgrade the tavistock place cycle scheme it received a record number of responses to a consultation some 15 000 in all or which 70 supported the scheme people like cycleways because they can imagine themselves cycling on such cycle tracks when most would shrink from cycling on roads mixed with motor traffic support was expressed by 70 of respondents in a record 15 000 responses to camden s consultation on upgrading the tavistock place cycleway the intellectual argument in favour of cycleways and progressive filtering projects such as the successful mini holland scheme in waltham forest has been won we don t need another round of paintways as the quietways mainly are in london just more safe cycling space we must all wish the new commissioner well he is undertaking a formidable task and must find the intellectual and organisational wherewithal to overcome some of the fiercest resistance to be encountered in any public role in london today the commissioner s public cv suggests he has a strong background in the marketing of getting people to be active no doubt this will have its uses but he will need to grasp that he can succeed in his job only by concentrating on what he can influence namely infrastructure fortunately safe attractive infrastructure just happens to be the best most effective means of achieving more cycling and more walking if he adopts the right policies and effectively stimulates cycling and walking in the traditionally hostile environment of london s roads truly tackles the barriers to change will norman will make an international reputation for himself equivalent to that of derek turner who was in place when london s congestion charge was introduced and became a global consultant on congestion charging more importantly for londoners the prize would be a more liveable city a city fit and prepared for the sustainability challenges that it will face in the next few decades i must publicly acknowledge that when andrew gilligan was first appointed as boris johnson s cycling commissioner i was highly sceptical that a mere journalist would have the heft and guile needed to overcome the tenacious opposition to cycleways that i knew existed within tfl well i m delighted to say that i was wrong i wish will norman the same success get to it will and the best of british luck you ll sure need it posted by paulgannonbike filed under uncategorized leave a comment tavistock place a consultation about london s future 22 thursday sep 2016 posted by paulgannonbike in bloomsbury cycle superhighway space4cycling tavistock place torrington place 9 comments a very important public consultation is taking place in camden on the future of the tavistock place cycle scheme this runs along some side streets well away from the main roads in central london under normal circumstances putting the words cycle scheme in quotation marks would herald a critique of a mad bad or pointless project of the sort which we see too much of in britain but on this occasion i use the quotation marks because while this consultation is primarily about a high quality scheme it is about more than cycling the consultation is about the type of city that can be built in the twenty first century it is about whether we start switching towards a liveable city serving people or whether we continue to cling tenaciously to a twentieth century model of an urban realm dominated by motor vehicles impression of what the tavistock place scheme will look like if it wins approval the proposed cycle scheme on tavistock place has been trialled using a temporary layout since october 2015 and has generated enormous favourable comment especially from cyclists and from pedestrians in the area the traffic reductions have been achieved by allowing motor traffic to drive in just one direction while ensuring maintenance of access to the whole area by those who need to use motor vehicles it has recently been reported that poisonous emissions in the area are down 21 since the start of a trial but the scheme has also encountered stiff opposition especially from the black cab lobby for whom the roads where the cycle track runs have become a much used route especially for cabs heading for euston rail station but also as a rat run for other destinations some of them simply dismiss the reduction in emissions as fraud one taxi organisation the licensed taxi drivers association ltda has openly declared war on the scheme saying make no mistake this is a war being fought on every conceivable marketing and communications front london taxi drivers association announces war on the tavistock place scheme so much motor traffic uses the route that cabbies insist that this is not a side street but a main road taking this argument for the time being at face value it raises an interesting question of balance there is now a consultation on whether to implement the cycle route as a permanent feature but there has never been a consultation on allowing side roads to become so clogged with motor vehicles to such an extent that all side roads become transformed in popular cabbie and motor lobby discourse to be main roads and thus can never be subject to measures aimed at reducing motor vehicle traffic minimising congestion and lowering pollution levels in essence this consultation is about that issue not just about a cycle route this is our consultation on whether we ever approved of the policy of allowing motors to become the dominant force in our capital city public spaces before looking at some more of the detail of the debate some background may be useful for those not familiar with the history of the cycle route first there has been a cycle route on tavistock place since the year 2002 when a two way physically separated cycle track was installed and ran on one side of the road this proved to be progressively more popular and within a couple of years there were simply too many cyclists wanted to use the facility for the safer more attractive cycling conditions the only such facility at the time in central london above the route before 2002 with painted lanes in operation for 8 of the time the route after 2002 with a single two way cycle track on the northern side of the road in october 2015 an experimental system of two one way cycle tracks one on each side of the road was introduced the present consultation is whether to make the trial approach permanent and importantly to upgrade the quality of installation very significantly over the temporary methods used for the trial the route since october 2015 with two one way cycle tracks and motor vehicle routing reduced to one direction photo 1woman2wheels it is currently the busiest cycle route in the borough of camden and one of the busiest cycle routes in the whole of london with over 1 000 cycles counted in the morning peak hour i should declare an interest here as i was one of those involved in camden cycling campaign now camden cyclists that persuaded the london borough of camden streets and environment committee led by its chairman councillor gerry harrison to install the two way physically separated cycle track 14 years ago along with another two way track on royal college street about one kilometre north of tavistock place this site has already been upgraded to two one way cycle tracks the term tavistock place is something of a misnomer and is just a useful handle 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