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BTW, I agree very much with the praise heaped on the Poynton Scheme http://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-services/what-we-do/route-design-and-construction/shared-space-busy-intersection-poynton
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Definately 'shared space' is the way forward for a lot of London - remove the 'go faster - now you have a right to run him down' signage and you can increase capacity and reduce speed both - win win for cyclists. The problem is that we will need more and bigger Poynton style schemes before the DoT are properly up to speed with the idea. Segregation also works and is more doable in the near to middle term, I think. So MANY things work, but nothing goes forward properly without demos that impose a political cost for victim-blaming and other excuses.