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Amen to that.
However...
10,000 people did not come out and call for more sharing at any speed. They wanted some big cycle lanes.
For every person I train, I meet many others who will just tell you bluntly that they "would cycle if there was protected space"
When I was 12 (1979) I lived in Manhatten. Cycling was rough! Think Mean Streets/Taxi Driver on a bike. In 1980 Mayor Kotch put in just two long segregated lanes. One was on 5th ave and I can't remember where the other was. point is this... Virtually overnight the streets filled up with new riders. Seen it happen. People were able to make the long downtown leg on these lanes and were then quite happy to finish their journey in the smaller roads near their destination. The lanes came down because of voiciferous complaints from various dicks but while they were up, no one could deny their massive effect on cycling numbers.
I really feel we need a couple or three big continuous arterial cycling routes. Something the size of a bus lane that lets you cross the city. Not because I need them but because others do.
Fact is that the lanes are already there... sort of. During rush hour you get a fat phalanx of riders on the left with a "narrowed" car lane to their right. I see people doing it naturally, on the main routes anyway. We should build some of them in as a strong signal to those who need the "support" these lanes seem to offer.
Shared Space on the whole is a good thing I think, except where someone tries to use it on a main road as at Exhibition road. It's about using what is right where it is right. On Holloway Road... A big fat cycle lane would be a good thing.
My 2 cents.. x