tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410982774062066015.post6914804967910968214..comments2024-02-27T17:10:14.937+00:00Comments on Hackney cyclist: Bow roundabout Cycle Superhighway 2 updateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410982774062066015.post-27292454095524865452013-10-15T23:54:52.245+01:002013-10-15T23:54:52.245+01:00Its 2 lanes to cross Eastbound on the Bow High Str...Its 2 lanes to cross Eastbound on the Bow High Street approach, but at busy times that is 2 lanes blocked back to the start of the ramp anyway and as your picture shows, there is a) more motor traffic coming up the slip road than using the flyover and b) there are traffic signals that interrupt that traffic flow and provide a way to cross the slip road.<br /><br />Under the flyover one of the pictures shows the mess of counter-flow traffic arrangements on the East side of the flyover, which don't seem to figure in any measures for the cycle lanes. <br /><br />Quite frankly with one of the Westbound lanes on the flyover permanently closed off and so little of the motor traffic going over the top (most of it is joining & leaving the A102) there is no problem in closing off the lanes at the outside edges of the flyover and creating routes for pedestrian and cycle traffic right across the top. There is no reason that cyclists and pedestrians actually need to be on the roundabout very few would want to join the A102 with its 50mph speed limit (and the fact that it becomes the A102(M) to the North). Access to areas to the North and South on each side of the A 102 is provided through local roads that connect to the East and West of the flyover, and a North-South crossing is provided along the River Lea Navigation towpath running directly beneath the flyover as you show in the picture.<br /><br />The revisit of the work by TfL is an expensive reworking of a scheme which remains inherently unsafe because it relies heavily on the assumption that drivers and cyclists will comply with road markings and traffic signals, set up in a complex arrangement of timings and alignmants that still cannot completely eliminate the fact that a truck and a cyclke can be on the same piece of tarmac at the same time in a conflicting movement.<br /><br />Since all the pedestrian and cycle traffic is going East-West the answer is to put the CS2 route straight over the top, and provide means to cross the slip roads with a light controlled crossing or more costly bridge spans and ramps taken off the flyover where the height clearance is appropriate to cross over the slip roads.. Dave Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11574227829528072780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410982774062066015.post-89683992355071715752013-08-06T23:16:06.716+01:002013-08-06T23:16:06.716+01:00Especially when there is a short section of CS2 (w...Especially when there is a short section of CS2 (westbound, just after the flyover) done rather well… I'd put the rather longer stretch of CS on the Lea flyover from Canning Town towards Docklands in the same "good" category.<br /><br />It seems like amateurs having a go at road design, resulting in absurdities like the recent changes to the Brick Lane end of Bethnal Green Road.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410982774062066015.post-61334329603531476692013-08-06T22:54:28.669+01:002013-08-06T22:54:28.669+01:00Disappointing to see the square edged kerbs being ...Disappointing to see the square edged kerbs being used. Compare to the Dutch cycle path shown above - we really shouldn't be making these mistakes with our infrastructure when someone else has already worked out the best solutions. Simon Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01134305819234481426noreply@blogger.com