Rather than creating many low quality bike lanes I would devote a few entire avenues to lightweight portable transport and create cycle-scooterhighways.
Polluting vehicles.
Polluting vehicles.
Polluting vehicles but with more LPT (lightweight portable transport) such as bikes, escooters & so on.
Electric vehicles & more LPT (lightweight portable transport).
STEP 1 (OF URBAN FLOW PLAN)
One or two roads in a city chosen to become ‘Greenways’. Only open to non-polluting LPT. No large polluting vehicles other than emergency vehicles & essential large deliveries.
STEP 1.1 (optional extra)
As above but with improved flow.
STEP 2
Pedestrians above. Safety & continuous flow achieved: noone has to wait for anyone else. Pedestrians could be on travelators.
STEP 3
Pod cars or travelators above. An optional addition for later on pending popularity of earlier steps.
STEP 1 UNDONE (IN CASE NEED BE)
Greenway changed back to regular road but still with pedestrians & pod cars above. Step 1 is reversible at any time which is a huge safety feature of this plan.
View as a slideshow below
1. Polluting vehicles 2. Polluting vehicles 2 3. Polluting vehicles but with more LPT (lightweight portable transport) 4. Electric vehicles & more LPT (lightweight portable transport) STEP 1 urban flow plan, no vehicles, only non-polluting LPT STEP 1.1 urban flow plan, no vehicles, only non-polluting LPT with improved flow STEP 2 urban flow plan, no vehicles, only non-polluting LPT, pedestrians above (continuous flow) STEP 3 urban flow plan, only non-polluting LPT, pedestrian walkways above & pod cars (2) UNDONE STEP 1 urban flow plan, LPT shares & vehicles, pedestrian walkways above & pod cars
Another example of the Urban flow plan is shown below, this time using a junction in Hong Kong and adding extra options. To open slideshow viewer just click on any picture.
All pictures in this post were hand painted by the author over countless hours on an iPad using the Procreate app. (HK photo credit ze big-trip.com)
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