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@Backstop
I'm pro segregation. From the start our roads already have massive kerb separated areas for different road users, we call them pavements. Because peds and cars move at different speeds, I don't here anyone arguing peds should reclaim the roads and walk in primary etc...
Cycles/peds/cars are three very different forms of transport, and the Dutch have it right. To demographic of cycling in London is massively skewed to healthy 20-35 males. Even if segregated lanes put off every current user from the roads but induced even a samll part of the latent desire then it would be worth it.
Current modal share is 5% ish, that's nothing much really and rightly or wrongly we don't have any political capital.
That was a ramble, but I'm sure any inaccuracies will be taken up.