If you support segregated cycling infrastructure in Hackney

One of the interesting points in relation to this kind of initiative is what @Oliver_Schick was posting on the 'mini-Holland' thread about the differing conditions that have fed into some other (mostly northern European) countries that have managed to exclude cars from their towns - that it's a function of other factors extending far beyond the town itself, the wider road network, the degree of suburbanisation, the pattern of employment. Whether such plans fail or work might depend on precisely these factors.

Personally I feel that given increasing pollution and scarcity of traditional forms of fuel the road and transport system will evolve anyway in the next few decades, much as they have been evolving for the past century and more.

Edit: Just to add the point that this is why, I think, I like the Hackney 'filtered permeability' approach. It tips the balance back in favour of the pedestrian and cyclist in an almost insidious way, gradually reclaiming a shared urban environment piece by piece. By contrast the segregated approach seems like a distinctly - how do I put this - turn of the millennium solution: make a dedicated, risk assessed space for everything and for every activity, all controlled by Local Planning Guidance Notes or whatever. This kind of big-society public sector planning is, I think, unlikely to be seen again in the near future, given the catastrophic erosion of public funding in the past three years and still ongoing as well as the steady, parallel erosion of development control laws.