mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Paths are slow and shonky. Roads and ways are smooth and swift. We need to avoid artificially slowing cycling.Why do you describe "cycle paths" as an attempt to avoid using the word "cycleway"? I really don't understand why you think that would be any better a term.
"Shared use path" is worst of all, implying cyclists are guests on a footway and denying that almost everything except motorways* is shared with walkers. If walkers ever assert their right to share the carriageway, critical mass style, then motorists in most cities will be totally farked. A few times Norwich inside the Inner Ring looked at risk of this, but then the councils closed more streets to get the motorists out anyway.
*: motorways and a few "special roads" like tunnels, the A14 Huntingdon bypass bypass bypass and the Edinburgh ring road.