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@skydancer
Interesting point.
How would people drive were there crowds of 10 year olds and grannies surrounding them? How would the occasional driver dropping their kids off drive to school on a road where most people walked and cycled to the school. With care and slowly i suspect, especially if they were punished by law if they didn't
The A10 dalston to shoreditch is a case in point. Currently it is a not very busy stretch , occasional buses in the bus lane and not highly trafficked even in the rush hour. There is currently a parallel route that goes through Hoxton bringing you out on Shoreditch high street.
Hackney council wish to lower the speed on A10 to 20mph (ensure the bus drivers have been trained on bikes) and improve the parallel quiet route. To me that is a much better, lower risk option, and good for the urban realm on the A10 and gives people on bikes better options than seperate cycle tracks along the A10 that some of those twitter campaigners keep going on about.