Old Rupe's site won't let me in unless I pay. Well he knows what he can do with that.
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I got in okay, Mr G, so a quick summary for you:
The gist of it is give local authorities permission to rephase lights, and do whatever else is necessary, to give pedestrians absolutely priority in urban areas, cyclists second priority, then public transport, then everyone else. ie make all other traffic wait.
Nottingham has already been piloting some ideas, including filling in subways, and replacing them with traffic light controlled surface crossings!
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Thank you for that. Well the Somoans made the Poms sing for their supper tonight.....
Back to the land of a million jaywalkers....
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I don't have a problem with greater pedestrian priority in busy shopping areas etc. However the quid-pro-quo is decent trunk roads and a railway and underground system that actually works.
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Oooh, is that the sound of Satan doing up his ice-skates?
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This isn't quite as radical as it sounds. In cities, you end to find that pedestrian traffic is so heavy on many crossings that vehicles have to wait anyway.
Nottingham is trying all kinds of things, the most radical being the reintroduction of the tram, the most invasive (from a car viewpoint) being bus lanes. Coity centre retailers aren't a fan of it - they point out that since most shoppers are car-borne all this is doing is making life tougher for the city's own businesses.
BTW, the filling in of subways applies to one island loathed by pedestrians for dimly-lit subways populated by drunks and beggars.
All that said, yet another example of the conscious or unconscious anti-car bias that exists within traffic authorites.
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