Cycle Paths

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The answer is yes. You'd be surprised at how much is involved in the infrastructure of cycle paths in the UK with cyclist.

I go to many a meet with Salford council at Swinton town hall to talk about the latest developments in cycle facilities for Salford and Manchester. We are all cyclist, every single one of us. The meeting consist of allsorts of people from the council, Sustrans, local bike shop owners, big retail bike shop management and the general public to have our say and come up with the best solution for what we have available

Most of what people call 'Stupid cycle paths' ain't put in place for the seasoned cyclist who's been cycling 30 years and commutes every day and is confident on the road. These are put in place for families with children, people that want to take there kids to school using bikes, people that are not confident on the road ect ... It really annoys me when people start banging on about how crap a cycle lane is !

The other things to take into account with cycle paths is money and the infrastructure thats all ready in place. Britain's roads were built for horse n carts, I mean, we still have kerbs, and for what ? ! and we still put them in place as it's cost effective.

There is only so much we can do with cycle paths in this country, until the cyclist starts taking over the car then nothing much will change, and for those moaning about the local crap cycle paths, get down to the council meetings and do something about it. Its your council, your community and your crap cycle path.

Rant over

Edit: This ain't a personal attack at youngoldbloke

Funny, the latest spiffing cycle farcility we got, on the Selly Oak bypass, features street signs and bus stops placed in the cycle path. When this was pointed out to the council the reply was "it's too expensive to change it now" (or, paraphrasing somewhat: "we don't give a xxxx").

The money would have been better spent properly fixing potholes - which would benefit all road users. And that is a major issue: with limited resources, why should money be spent on one small group, to construct "facilities" that are very commonly of little utility and frequently downright dangerous? Improvements to the road surface would be far more beneficial to cyclists, and so would improving major junctions, which tend to be the most dangerous areas, and ones where cycle paths will dump you into the worst possible position and disappear. That's not the sort of thing you want to happen to you if you're not "confident on the road", which these facilities are aimed at, is it?