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Very true about TfL, many of the cycle routes that are going in are little more than a trade off between losing an entire "car lane" to the vast number of cyclists commuting and so by shoving them into a 1/2 or even 1/4 lane wide cycle track they impose less on the drivers. In a couple of places I can think where the changes have caused conflicts between pedestrians and cyclists as neither path/track is wide enough(but they have maintained 4 traffic + 2 parking lanes for drivers). Not to say they are a bad thing but when they have sections that don't work well and the design is little more than filling the gaps between the 2 working sections then it should be explained how/why that crappy part has been made. One that springs to mind most is the less than 20m to get across 2 lanes of traffic to make a right turn from the cycle track around kennington park onto brixton road, the trial by fire learning path cyclists need to take part in to get used to the traffic light timings and develop an obscure solution to get across safely isn't how it should be designed. Ugh I could rant about some of this stuff for days.
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You are right @Clockwise and @The_Seldom_Killer. My comments should be taken with a pinch of salt. This is not an issue of individual morality since individuals have to make what they can out of the situation creating by repeated cutting back on the state offer to support peoples transportation, from Beeching through to Thatcher, Blair up to Cameron, all of whom contributed and continue contributing to creating a motor centric country. Even in London with what seems apparently significant steps forward in redistributing road space and creating more urban realm spaces. TfL hasn't actually gone as far as to really prioritise Cyclist and walkers at junctions like they do in North Europe, nor to take significant space from drivers to create the new cycleways, apart from the odd exception.