BIKEWAY SCHEMES: AN UPHILL GRIND

The author presents a brief review of the progress of bikeway schemes throughout the country. Portsmouth's cycle route experiment in particular is examined where several drawbacks have been encountered and the future of the scheme is the subject of controversy. Traffic signals with bike-only phases are to be used in some areas, activated by bike-sensitive inductance loops to avoid delays. The mixing of cycles and mopeds with pedestrians is shown by the author to be safer than mixing with motor vehicles by reference to accident figures in stevenage.

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  Institution of Civil Engineers

  One Great George Street, Westminster
  London,   United Kingdom  SW1P 3AA
• Publication Date: 1976-4-22

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 23
• Serial:
  • NEW CIVIL ENGINEER
  • Issue Number: 190
  • Publisher: EMAP CONSTRUCT LIMITED
  • ISSN: 0307-7683

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycles; Bikeways; Bus priority; Crash rates; Evaluation and assessment; Experiments; Inductance; Loops (Control systems); Mixtures; Mopeds; Motor vehicles; Pedestrians; Safety; Traffic control; Traffic signal preemption; Traffic signals
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Loop
• ITRD Terms: 2722: Cycle track; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 9047: Mixture; 1733: Pedestrian; 648: Priority (traffic); 1665: Safety; 654: Traffic control; 565: Traffic signal; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00138898
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 26 1976 12:00AM