Shared use and covert cycleways: how cycling on footpaths came to be officially recommended – War On The Motorist
Joe Dunkley March 28, 2021
A misunderstanding in the ’00s led cycling organisations to recommend against separating
cycling from walking and aided the proliferation of bad shared use paths. We’ve made some
progress towards correcting that mistake, but it lingers in Bristol’s covert cycleways.
For anyone who has been missing getting together for Infrastructure Safaris lately,
For anyone who has been missing getting together for Infrastructure Safaris lately,
here’s a reminder that I’ve put some on YouTube. The latest is about shared use and
covert cycleways:
I won’t try to replicate the video exactly in written form, partly because the point of an
I won’t try to replicate the video exactly in written form, partly because the point of an
Infrastructure Safari is to (virtually) ride along and see everything in context, but
mostly because it largely covers topics that I and others have written about before.