I think this cycle path layout in Stirling should be standard across Scotland, instead of the mess of confusion painted on our roads. Kerbs used for separation from both road and pavement. Neat.

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1. Needs physical protection like bollards or planters. Otherwise I agree with the sandy colour, it’s a good differentiation without being garish like some places that use blue or green.

2. I’m not a cyclist but I support towing cars that park on cycle paths.

3. This kerb thing is being rolled out in Aberdeen too. Also, shite parking displayed here!

4. I agree – I’ve heard that these designs work really well in London and countries like the Netherlands (they have them all over the place).

   This shows full commitment to good bike infrastructure rather than it just being an after-thought painted onto the road.

5. The idiots parking on it ruin it unfortunately. In my town traffic congestion in often caused by twats parking in the bus stops, which leads to the buses stopping on the road as they’ve no other choice. Doesn’t take long before traffic is backed up for about half a mile. Convenient for the driver who is ‘just going to be a minute’ while they nip into the spar to buy their protein shakes or whatever, super annoying for everyone else.

   Same goes here, this cycle lane has been designed and built for one reason, not for additional car parking space.

   Check the URL op it just leads to yt shorts

6. The mini kerb separating is the NORM across Europe.

   I do not know why the UK can’t just adopt shit that Europe does well.

   Take the bottle scheme we were going to do here, Europe has had it for years now, why did it take multiple years and consultations to basically get to the exact same thing?

7. I work in roads and these are the gold standard – I.e. cycle lanes segregated from both pedestrians and cars. The issue is our cities are historic and there’s rarely scope for acquiring 2/3m of extra space to put these in without hindering pedestrians or cars. Removing space from cars is fine in principle but obviously drivers make up a much larger % of the population than cyclists.

   There is the argument that doing this stuff would encourage more people to cycle which I don’t doubt it would, but Scottish weather doesn’t lend itself to that being the main mode of transport to work for more people I wouldn’t say.

8. Perth’s cycle paths and lanes are mostly a joke, this actually looks decent

9. I think they should also reverse boris Johnson’s law where cyclists don’t have to use cycle lanes if they don’t want to. It should be mandatory where cycle lanes are available that all cyclists use these with no exceptions.

10. We’ve got them like that in Leicester.

11. And yet, there is still a wanker parked on the cycle lane.

12. I went to Denmark last year and this is how it works there.

    Their hierarchy is pedestrians, bikes, vehicles. Their pavements step down onto cycleways and those drop down onto the road. It’s so much safer and way more efficient.

    Needs to be the standard everywhere.

13. The Dutch way: especially the consistent colours make it easy for everyone.

14. It seems to still have confused the driver of the blue car who has parked in it though

15. Just to add, people complained about cycling infrastructure in Paris being shut for such a long time, with random bits of cycle lane that went nowhere – but they’re policy was to add cycle infrastructure whenever roads were being repaired – even just a small section – and over 30 or so years the whole thing eventually linked up into a fully connected cycle lane network. Wish we’d take the same approach – just build them when you’re tearing the road up anyway and over time you’ll have your infrastructure.

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