please empty your brain below
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I refer you to Betteridge's law.
Martin | 21.08.20 - 7:15 a.m. | #
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Now I live in the Netherlands, I’m benefiting from consistent and high standard bike infrastructure. Red cycle way surfaces are widely used here and being adopted around the world. If you are a fan of organized thinking this really good blog explains the color, width and surface, and also details the Dutch approach to building Cycleways. Wide enough for a parent and a child, helps the environment, health etc.
Adam D | 21.08.20 - 7:26 a.m. | #
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Informed speculation after 15 years in the asphalt industry....
It could be to do with whether it has been resurfaced. The blue lanes appear to be painted onto the existing asphalt, whereas this red one appears completely new. Red asphalt is readily available but blue is not. A new surface is probably also better for skid resistance than a painted one.
kev | 21.08.20 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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Good job Google doesn't index Twitter or your post will now be the definitive statement that cycleways will now be red !! I wonder how long before someone makes a statement on a proper website referencing your tweet and that is what happens.
Jimbo | 21.08.20 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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This is an odd one - there's always been a short red contraflow length on Sorrell Lane.
This length had the fencing taken away on Tuesday, so is very new and I assume because Sorrell Road is going to lose some width or to lessen the interaction with construction traffic.
This whole bit of CS3 needs sorting out as it's completely inadequate - the first time I tried to cycle it I got lost around the town hall as the route markers just vanish!
John | 21.08.20 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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Maybe it's a new grading system like you have on skiing runs?
Tony | 21.08.20 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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i wonder if Boris or Sadiq went to look at Amsterdam's achievements before before slapping all that blue about.
the other eric | 21.08.20 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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I had assumed red was the standard colour for a cycle path as all the ones near me are (I live outside London). I was going to speculate that they were bringing London in to line with elsewhere in the country, but a quick Google tells me there is no consistent colour across the country.
Anders | 21.08.20 - 9:41 a.m. | #
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Quite a few are greeen I think, in certain places around the country.
Cau1khead | 21.08.20 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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Leading headlines is the stuff of most journalism! It's what grabs attention and building assumptions.
Personally I think all cycle routes being red would be a big improvement - they'd be more visible to both cyclists and cars so hopefully the former would be tempted to use them more and the latter, not! The little painted white dotted lines along roads here looks more like street parking and are used as such.
Cornish Cockney | 21.08.20 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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It's just the same in politics. You only have to look at the reporting in GB and USA.
Tones | 21.08.20 - 10:23 a.m. | #
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Re green cycle lanes, Cable St CS3 was formerly green before the CS designation.
That shade of red is certainly bright, not sure I'd want to see swathes of it everywhere, and given where I live and work, I'd see a lot of it.
E1W-er | 21.08.20 - 11:24 a.m. | #
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Ah. I liked 'switchhouses' better.
Sarah | Homepage | 21.08.20 - 11:39 a.m. | #
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Keeping your mind open is very hard work
Caz | 21.08.20 - 11:47 a.m. | #
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Better signage for CS3 round there was on my list of requests to TfL in their open streets scheme. Coming from Barking you go past Canning Town, over the Lea, and it just sort of disappears leaving you heading towards the Blackwall Tunnel. I shall endeavour to try this next week.
TheNewNo2 | 21.08.20 - 4:29 p.m. | #
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I'd like all cycleways (nationwide) to be red; but in red asphalt or paving (both easily available) not paint.
It's the standard used by the Dutch, after all.
Al__S | 21.08.20 - 9:51 p.m. | #
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It seems a curious choice of colour to me given that apparently so many London cyclists are unable to see the colour red.
[Walks away whistling and trying to look innocent]
Don | 22.08.20 - 11:12 a.m. | #
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