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Category: | A general photo.: An example of good practice |
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Date time: | 3.21pm, Sunday 3rd February, 2008 |
Time line: | Earlier | Later |
Facing: | South |
Added by: | davidhembrow |
Copyright: | CC Attribution-Share Alike (by-sa) |
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Credit: | David Hembrow |
A Dutch junction quite similar to Cambridge's A10 / A14 junction at Milton.
However, here cyclists are definitely not on the road and this is used even by school children (a lot of them).
Watch the video to see how it works. We start on a single direction 2.5 m wide path on one side of the road (there's an identical one the other side) and progress onto a 4 metre wide bidirectional path. Note that we can keep up a good pace all the time, have priority over minor side roads, get priority at a set of traffic lights which default to green for bikes while simultaneously stopping the cars, and get right past the industrial estate without seeing any cars at all. At the end there are road works (since completed) and a cycle detour is set up.
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