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Sorry you don't like the poll. I'm the person responsible for it.
Yes, it is pretty much infrastructure-based. And interestingly, it's not the junctions that are coming out as the most votes at all.
117 people have filled it out so far. Including 25 referred from this site.
What's interesting is that the people filling out the poll/survey, whatever you want to call it, are coming from very different areas. We have a lot of people coming from a borisbiker website, a lot from this forum, a lot from bikeradar and then also from the LCC City mailing lists. And it's fairly even across all those sources at the moment.
I'm not a statistician. I'm not an expert on cycling infrastructure, on different theories about where bikes should and shouldn't be. But I'm someone who's fed up of being treated like a third-class citizen for using a bicycle as my main mode of transport. I work with people who feel similarly. I live with people who feel similarly. And I have found a statistician to work with me to decipher what this survey/poll is throwing up once we have enough results.
I'm sorry that your posts think that's a 'crock' as you call it. I'm not trying to push a particular agenda but I suppose writing this blog has made me realise that my basic premise is that a lot of people would like to cycle but don't. And so I am, admittedly, coming to aim what I write at the 49% of people who would probably cycle if they felt safe enough to.
I have tried to allow for non 'infrastructure' options on this poll. By talkinga bout creating routes on mian roads where cycles have priority.
So, bearing in mind that we've got very differents types of cyclist answering this and it's interesting that the results are all converging on very similar trends. And they are not, as some people on here are suggesting, converging on this or that junction is a pain.
The results so far are
a) More availability of Boris bikes
b) Open more contraflow routes for cycling
c) Give more priority to cycling east-west and north-south through the City on main roads.
Interestingly, b was approved yesterday by the City as policy http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.com/2010/10/two-way-streets-for-cycling-significant.html
As for the priority stuff, if any of you like the new Cheapside (you won't be able to get past stationary motor traffic when the scheme's finished as the lanes are too narrow) or if you approve of completely pedestrianising some streets aroundLeadenhall Market so no one can cycle through them, then perhaps you'd agree creating space for cycles on main roads isn't such a daft idea.
I might be wrong but I'm pretty p''sed off that it's really easy to dimiss something as a crock on a forum like this. It's a lot more work to try and get the City to stop treating people on bikes like criminals. (slight exaggeration but I'm perhaps unfairly sensitive this morning....)