Is This Britain's Most Misleading Council Cycle Map?

[mjr]

http://www.klwnbug.co.uk/2018/07/05/kings-lynns-imaginary-cycling-network/ compares the cycling network that the county council claims to have, in its official strategy, with what actually exists. Can anyone figure out how they got it so badly wrong? Have any councils made more mistakes in their cycling map?

 

[Serge]

http://www.klwnbug.co.uk/2018/07/05/kings-lynns-imaginary-cycling-network/ compares the cycling network that the county council claims to have, in its official strategy, with what actually exists. Can anyone figure out how they got it so badly wrong? Have any councils made more mistakes in their cycling map?

Amazing!

 

[Sharky]

Is it possible it was intended to be the Cycling & Running Action Plan?

 

[Mike_P]

Think it is intended - the document is poorly drafted using both current and proposed terminology interweaved
but does state


"A countywide network will enable schemes to be prioritised and matched to relevant funding streams. It will demonstrate our ambition to develop and promote cycling and walking. The schematic network maps for cycling and walking (below) show the arterial routes which are likely to maximise usage, by linking residential, employment and service centres, schools, public transport interchanges and popular cycling destinations: our ‘recycling the railways’ project to develop disused routes has the potential to help us deliver this (see Section 6.10). Links are also required with neighbouring urban centres and long distance cycle routes. More detailed local network information is available for Norwich, King’s Lynn, Great Yarmouth and Thetford. Please click through to this information by selecting the location on the schematic maps below (or turn to Section 11)."

The map that is criticised is one of those schematic maps.

27MB PDF: https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/-/media/...hash=382A1CE685871729935158CA4F9DFCA94A7E5BB5

 

[mjr]

The map that is criticised is one of those schematic maps.

No, it's clearly geographic not schematic. The schematic maps for cycling are in section 6 and the main one is shown (and criticised) in another page at http://www.klwnbug.co.uk/2018/06/28/bawsey-bumps-and-the-cwap-map/

The geographic network map for Norwich labels proposed constructions with dotted lines. There are no purple or blue dotted lines shown on the King's Lynn one. Also, we've seen sections of that map in other contexts, also claiming that's what exists.

Actually, if that was what they're planning, that may be even madder, building cycleways along many small residential roads but still leaving gaps on the A and busier B roads - but I'm sure it's not a proposal.