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Cycling and Planning
The design of urban traffic systems focuses predominantly on car-users and is often ‘unfriendly’ to cyclists. Non-motorised transport such as cycling has often been marginalised within transport planning and where it is provided for, is often done so on a retrospective basis, adding to existing infrastructure whilst trying to cause minimum disruption to vehicle traffic (World Bank, 2002). Efforts should be made to make the road network more ‘cycle-friendly’ and to include cyclists in transport policy and planning as equal road users rather than as ‘left-overs’ in infrastructure (Eltis, 2003).
Planning has been considered in this briefing in two contexts:
The provision of physical infrastructure and appropriate, ‘cycle-friendly’ highway design and transport engineering. This is concerned with improving transport infrastructure and providing the necessary facilities so as to allow safe, convenient access for cyclists. Key cycle infrastructure includes:
cycle routes and networks;
cycle parking and storage facilities;
cycle priority measures;
complementary traffic calming and speed reduction measures.
Land-use planning.
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