Cycling Infrastructure Dissertation Questionnaire

[WattBlair]

Hi there,
I'm currently finishing my 4th of uni and for my honours project I'm doing a questionnaire on the safety of cycling infrastructure.
If anyone could fill out the questionnaire it would be greatly appreciated. It has 19 questions and will take approximately 5-10 mins to complete.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/M2NDJ63

Kind Regards
Blair Watt
Student at Edinburgh Napier University

 

[growingvegetables]

Hi Blair - wee technical problem? Maybe it's my computer, but the photos are severely distorted on the form. I can use view image, but then flicking back to the form, I lose all the answers I've entered.

 

[r04DiE]

Done, but @growingvegetables is right. The aspect ratio of your images is all wrong.

 

[Aravis]

Done. The photos aren't ideal but you can see clearly enough what they represent.

Those mini orca things look scary. I once took a nasty tumble on the Severn Bridge when my front wheel failed to clear a dome-shaped white line newly painted to separate pedestrians from two-wheelers. "Following guidelines" was the response, but it disappeared very quickly.

 

[ufkacbln]

A "comments" box would be helpful as some of may answers are "skewed"


I ride a trike, and therefore the segregated tracks are lethal. They are usually too narrow to fit the trike, and even when they allow the trike it takes up most of the room and makes it difficult for oncoming cyclists


I avoid them like the plague

 

[ufkacbln]

Done. The photos aren't ideal but you can see clearly enough what they represent.

Those mini orca things look scary. I once took a nasty tumble on the Severn Bridge when my front wheel failed to clear a dome-shaped white line newly painted to separate pedestrians from two-wheelers. "Following guidelines" was the response, but it disappeared very quickly.

Previously known as "Armadillos"... and you are not alone in your concerns


The motorcycle world has been against them as well for many years

An interesting series of tests from the BMF

 

[r04DiE]

Those mini orca things look scary.

Yep, they had these things along part of my route to separate a cycle lane. I never used it and I stayed well away from them. I flagged them up as dangerous to TfL and they vanished soon afterwards. Don't know if that was me or just coincidence.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Nobody mentioned those nice wide, coloured cycle-lanes we already have. OK buses, taxis wnd motorcycles (sadly) can use them, but they are much better than most so-called cycle infrastructure.
Most have too narrow lanes and poor junctions. Roads are generally more useful.

Low kerbs, Armadillos and the like are accidents waiting to happen.

Safe roads are the answer.

 

[furball]

This is just a comment not a criticism.
Is this the only place you are asking for your survey to be competed? If so the results could be biased. You are likely to find users of a cycling forum are fairly confident road users who avoid using cycling infrastructure that's been poorly thought out.

 

[steveindenmark]

If you have not done so already. I would also look at cycling infrastructures in Holland and Denmark. Denmark has certainly got it right.

Using the UK as a model is a two edged sword. It is all you have to work with but it could be much better.

 

[summerdays]

I would liked to have commented on individual answers to explain why I'd given a particular answer.

I'm happy using the road but I often enjoy cycling on cyclepaths away from traffic for the quieter cycling experience, and more greenery increasing my enjoyment. Lack of cycle infrastructure is unlikely to put me off cycling somewhere, but it's how enjoyable I will find the experience changes in different environments.

 

[winjim]

Some questions:

What's the difference between wouldn't make any safer and wouldn't make a difference?

What do you mean about lighting conditions on a cycle track affecting my decision to cycle? Do you mean my decision to cycle on that particular track, or to cycle at all?

Will you be asking pedestrians their opinion on perceptions of safety when using shared or segregated paths? After all, they are the vulnerable ones in that situation.

Is your aim to investigate safety, or the perception of safety?

 

[Drago]

Bottom line is there's virtually nowhere I feel unsafe - i'll either cycle it, or I won't, no if's, but's or maybe's based upon signage, markings or kerby bits.

 

[snorri]

Re the question on signing, (3?). The quality of signing in my local area is irrelevant to me, but when far from home the quality of signing is of great importance.