Agreed - so much hot air and no serious thought about venue connections.
Example 1 - route between Parkhead (Velodrome/Emirates etc) and City Centre, circuitous and piecemeal. I predict at least a couple of cycle injury crashes related to poor design detail on London Road half-done segregated lane (riding in to kerbs or bollards)
Example 2 The Hydro (and SECC) despite being less than 100m from Finnieston Station (Exhibition Centre might fail Trades Descriptions Act test?) here is no route directly to the station (one could be delivered (just) using existing bridges and structures) The SECC link to the station doesn't actually connect with either, and is an embarassment - especially when measured against the connection between the NEC and Birmingham International.
As for the Connect 2 route in to the city centre, the concept is good but the overkill with traffic signals destroys its convenience and time savings. Most of the traffic signals can be replaced by Give Way markings, and given the lack of any reliability in the detectors at some of the signalled junctions, using 'give way' or even combining the cycle phase with a general traffic phase offers a win-win of not holding back motor traffic for an unused cycle phase, and not holding back cycle traffic for lack of detection. I think that sometimes traffic signals are the outlet for boys (and some girls) who never had a big enough train set to play with when they were younger <ducks> and just want to have total control over all flows of all traffic (hence guardrailing, green men, countdown displays etc).
Perhaps a new thread on a psychiatric analysis on traffic engineers and the Cnut/Canute syndrome (a misguided belief that they can control traffic flows using signs, lines, and coloured lights)
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