Glasgow’s West End, Are cycle lanes, psycho lanes?
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The biggest thing you're missing from these arguments is the concepts of induced demand, modal shift. This is basically theory surrounding people making choices about which mode of transport they use based upon the facilities provided. If you build lots of wide roads with great parking everyone will eventually drive and it will be jammed, a nightmare to park and few will be using healthy active options – this is essentially what happened to Glasgow from the 60s til recently. You talk about these roads being narrowed, the reason they are all so wide to start with is that they were designed for trams, we cut the tram system and gave the space over to the car. And look where that ended up. The existing lanes in the video you drove past (university avenue) are not really fit for purpose as they are just painted lines, this is why you see people electing to use the pavement instead and don't see a large number making the mode switch. Around 1000 people a day pass the bike lane counter on vicotria road in each direction near me. If the whole city had bike lanes of this quality that joined up to form a complete network you would see huge numbers of people chosing to cycle. This is what happened to copenhagen and amsterdam after they built their segregated lane network in the 80s. If you could even switch 20% of city journeys from car to bike the roads will be a lot less busy for the remaining drivers. For Glasgow as a whole averaged 48% of households have a car, this is up from 40% 20 years ago and about 20% 20 years before that. If we don't offer better alternatives like safe cycle lanes that figure will keep going up and up and households with 2 or more cars will increase too. We don't have the space for more cars and the place is unhealthy enough as it is.
I live in Berlin where cycle lanes used to be set in the pavement .They still are BUT as well as that the road have been reduced to one lane and the rest is for bikesBikes seldom have a bell and those who do fail to use.They really are psycho lanes here.Meanwhile the politicians go by helicopters , planes and cars ..
The basic road width of the city just does not lend itself to hiving off road space for cycle lanes. Period. Not many cities or urban areas in the UK were ever made wide enough to begine with. We have historically and organically grown our towns, villages, cities and other urban areas around a width or road that will never accomodate segerating cycles from motor vehicles. Doing so make it inherintly more hazardous for cyclinsts, athan simply sharing the road space amicably. There is no way round it except better driver edication. not amount of structural changes can be made to fix this without demolishing all the buildings and starting over.
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The biggest thing you're missing from these arguments is the concepts of induced demand, modal shift. This is basically theory surrounding people making choices about which mode of transport they use based upon the facilities provided. If you build lots of wide roads with great parking everyone will eventually drive and it will be jammed, a nightmare to park and few will be using healthy active options – this is essentially what happened to Glasgow from the 60s til recently. You talk about these roads being narrowed, the reason they are all so wide to start with is that they were designed for trams, we cut the tram system and gave the space over to the car. And look where that ended up. The existing lanes in the video you drove past (university avenue) are not really fit for purpose as they are just painted lines, this is why you see people electing to use the pavement instead and don't see a large number making the mode switch. Around 1000 people a day pass the bike lane counter on vicotria road in each direction near me. If the whole city had bike lanes of this quality that joined up to form a complete network you would see huge numbers of people chosing to cycle. This is what happened to copenhagen and amsterdam after they built their segregated lane network in the 80s. If you could even switch 20% of city journeys from car to bike the roads will be a lot less busy for the remaining drivers. For Glasgow as a whole averaged 48% of households have a car, this is up from 40% 20 years ago and about 20% 20 years before that. If we don't offer better alternatives like safe cycle lanes that figure will keep going up and up and households with 2 or more cars will increase too. We don't have the space for more cars and the place is unhealthy enough as it is.
Cycling is the best form of transport 🙂
0:20 on the right. You didn't count him.
1:00 you're abusing the green box which is for cyclists.
bull shit
Where is the disability parking bottom Byres Rd, horrendous experience
By the time you saw your first cyclist you had only seen one car. 🤭😆🤦♂️
Electric Bikes – build it and they will come
I live in Berlin where cycle lanes used to be set in the pavement .They still are BUT as well as that the road have been reduced to one lane and the rest is for bikesBikes seldom have a bell and those who do fail to use.They really are psycho lanes here.Meanwhile the politicians go by helicopters , planes and cars ..
The basic road width of the city just does not lend itself to hiving off road space for cycle lanes. Period. Not many cities or urban areas in the UK were ever made wide enough to begine with. We have historically and organically grown our towns, villages, cities and other urban areas around a width or road that will never accomodate segerating cycles from motor vehicles. Doing so make it inherintly more hazardous for cyclinsts, athan simply sharing the road space amicably. There is no way round it except better driver edication. not amount of structural changes can be made to fix this without demolishing all the buildings and starting over.
Glasgow City Council seems hell bent on F u cki ng everything up. vote them out.