http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: “New and upgraded roads should prioritise pedestrians, cyclists and PT” NICE en Mon, 18 May 2026 00:23:59 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19369#post-298684 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 17:05:29 +0000 neddie 298684@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>If all the reports I have seen in my 35 year career in transport on how car use should be replaced by cycling/walking were piled up strategically we would have loads of filtered permeability. Plus they could be soaked in cement and made into the kerbs protecting cycle lanes.</em></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/CHAIRRDRF/status/1081206633475330048" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/CHAIRRDRF/status/1081206633475330048</a></p> <p><em>If Britain had a kilometre of protected cycleway for every page printed by government over the decades on how cycling should be prioritised, we might be getting somewhere</em></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/ETAservicesltd/status/1081198100079874048" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/ETAservicesltd/status/1081198100079874048</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19369#post-298656 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 10:23:04 +0000 neddie 298656@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is just deflection tactics to maintain the status quo.</p> <p>We'll spend megabucks to build &amp; widen roads and then and only then might we chuck in a few bike lanes...</p> <p>How's about we stop building and widening roads altogether (as it solves nothing) and spend all of the same money on adding bike lanes &amp; prioritising pedestrians <em>on existing routes</em>?</p> <p>Eh? Eh?</p> <p>We'll know that they're taking climate breakdown seriously when they start spending more than half the transport budget on active travel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19369#post-298650 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:57:32 +0000 gembo 298650@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ok, I see The National Institute for Clinical Excellence, normally the guidance issued for NHS medicine research is wading in through the looming type 2 diabetes angle.</p> <p>NICE one </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19369#post-298649 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:43:44 +0000 chdot 298649@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>New and upgraded roads should prioritise pedestrians, cyclists and public transport over motorised vehicles </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/new-and-upgraded-roads-should-prioritise-pedestrians-cyclists-and-public-transport-over-motorised-vehicles" rel="nofollow">https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/new-and-upgraded-roads-should-prioritise-pedestrians-cyclists-and-public-transport-over-motorised-vehicles</a> </p>