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You could make the segregated lane big enough for a bus and have normal bus lay-bys within it for overtaking purposes.
Dramatic_Hammer-
You could make the segregated lane big enough for a bus and have normal bus lay-bys within >it for overtaking purposes.
And then remove the segregation so that if the buses start queueing up you can still cycle >past.
Edit: or put a painted cycle lane on the right-hand side of the segregated bus/cycle lane.Make it 2 lanes wide, for overtaking buses, or other cyclists. Reduce the car-part to 1 lane in either direction, with no parking, stopping or passing places. Massively increase emissions taxation and VAT on new cars registered in London. Every petrol station will randomly fill 10 petrol tanks a day with sugar.
I'm not quite sure where I lost the plot there.
MechaMorgan
If someone can find me a good example of a segregated cycle lane which can support both buses stopping and pedestrians accessing the bus stop, without causing either to cross the path of cyclists, then I might support their integration.
However they are managed, they will always put cyclists at greater risk of vehicles turning, of drivers not seeing cyclists and of enforcing the marginalisation of cyclists to segregated areas in the minds of other road users.
Even well-built, they'll be a poor solution to a problem best dealt with by making the regular, existing roads safer.