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Wholeheartedly agree. My experience with them in a previous job has led me to believe that Sustrans behave as though they have a religious obsession with removing pedestrian space in favour of shared use. they become incredulous when it's suggested that not everything will be rosy as a result. The 'walking' aspect of their 'walking and cycling' remit has only ever been tagged on to gain funding for walking 'improvements' that turn out to be cycle routes...
newsflash: if you turn a previous footpath into a shared use promoted cycle route, people who walked there happily in the past will get upset and feel threatened as the promuters start thundering past - especially the more vulnerable such as parents with children and older people.
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That is the most pointless bit of research. It will only prove that cyclists and pedestrians don't like to mix. Which is so bleeding obvious, despite what Sustrans have said ever since they came into existence. I only completed it to see what I could add, but there is nowhere I could add anything useful.