The Government has published long-awaited guidance on cycling infrastructure design, which includes a hierarchy of solutions.
CTC, the national cycling organisation, welcomed the guidance, but urged the Department for Transport to ensure practitioners are aware of the hierarchy, and that they ‘understand and follow it’.
Roger Geffen, campaigns and policy manager, CTC, added: ‘It is good that the guidance re-states that the first solutions which local authorities should consider are those which reduce traffic volumes and speeds, whereas cycle lanes or cycle tracks only come much lower down the hierarchy of provision.’
He also said driver awareness needed improving, as many did not realise cyclists were not obliged to use cycle lanes.
• Cycle infrastructure design (LTN 2/08)
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