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The cycle lane should be given the same priority over side roads as
the
main road, subject to provisions being made for driver visibility.

It wasn't in this country where I heard the solution suggested, but
the side street problem is universal.

The way to enforce cyclists' priority is level crossing gates. It
works for trains.

The idea of cycle tracks is not new, and neither are their problems.
Nearly fifty years ago, in 1958 Professor Sir Colin Buchanan, one of
Britain's greatest town planners and engineers, wrote, in his book,
"Mixed Blessing, The Motor in Britain"
"The meagre efforts to separate cyclists from motor traffic have
failed, tracks are inadequate, the problem of treating them at
junctions and intersections is completely unsolved, and the attitude
of cyclists themselves to these admittedly unsatisfactory tracks has
not been as helpful as it might have been."

Nothing has changed since then



Jeremy parker