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And what's wrong with putting in lanes where u can if it encourages people to take up cycling so be it, in the long run every one will benefit from it. I just came back going over Wandsworth bridge this morning and I struggled into a headwind as a reasonably fit male and I dread to think what a middle aged woman on a pashley bike would think of it. A bike lane would have helped her. I civilised society is one that caters for the weakest not just ignore them because your doing just fine with things as they are.
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And what's wrong with putting in lanes where u can if it encourages people to take up cycling so be it, in the long run every one will benefit from it.
The problem is that there's a serious lack of continuous cycle lane, even with the recent CS6 et all, it's still not 100% segregated the entire route.
They might be ok going from a certain distance of the lane, but they still may not be comfortable enough to ride straight from their door, this is where the issues is.
I welcome it, what I don't welcome is the serious lack of changes in regard to driving, lots of effort going to make people ride, but almost no effort in encouraging people to drive properly around cyclists (i.e. not to aggressively threatening them for choosing not to ride in the cycle lane).
edscoble
You don't (didn't) need to do any of that on Westminster Bridge. I'll ask again: do you or @wildwest use it regularly? This seems like TfL have looked at a map, seen that Westminster Bridge is pretty wide and gone "let's bang some bike lanes in".