London Banter - View Single Post - First two "Cycle Superhighway" routes announced

Tom Barry · June 5th 09, 08:44 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.rec.cycling

wrote:

If YOU could be arsed to read you'd find that these are segregated
lanes, i.e. dedicated for cycling.

No they aren't, you bloody fool. Some of them are existing bus lanes,
some (for instance along the A13 for quite a long way) are high grade
segregated paths built when the road was widened to near motorway
standard a few years ago. In a few places where the road's too narrow
there won't be a path at all.

Spending money and taking roadspace away from cars are rather un-Boris
things to do. Taking someone else's work and branding it as his for a
trivial sum of money, however, is par for the course, and that's what
this exercise appears to be.

Tom (who's mapping them at the moment for his own edification and amusement)