Are transport priorities the right way up?

Published by Matt Polaine | Filed under Cycling, Cycling infrastructure

It has long been the stated aim of many places to have a road user hierarchy in which pedestrians come top, cyclists follow soon after, public transport fits in next and in which private cars come in at the bottom.

However, very few places actually behave like this. Typically there is very little obvious link between what literature states about priorities and what is done on the street. David Hembrow’s excellent blog ‘A view from the cyclepath…’ looks into this topic in more detail.
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