Active Travel Group sympathises with drivers “who feel ‘rather claustrophobic’ in their one tonne sofa-carrying steel boxes”

Hg09foj.  Google it.  One Mile from there.   Why should we help congestion.  When idiots like her drive ? 

I grew up at this location.  There's nothing wrong with the lanes themselves.  The only issue is when it ends you have to then re join traffic to go towards parley.  Width wise it's no issue to pass in an ambulance.  I asked a paramedic, she said it's fine but only if people are paying attention and see you.  Mostly they panic and sit too far over so you can't get past.  Or are on the phone so aren't aware you're trying to pass.  The whole of Bournemouth is full of angry hostile people anyway and I got sick of it.  So I left.  Sod the area. Let them sit in traffic all day.  Just up from here is a hill to go to red hill park.  They built flats there with no parking spaces.  So the entire road  is blocked on both sides all day by people parking on it.  Leaving you almost always have to stop to give way to cars coming the other way when trying to drive down it. Why do we let people park on roads permanently.  If you haven't got a off road space or drive way why are you allowed to leave your car blocking it.  Make it narrow do fire engines and ambulances cant pass.  Oh wait.  Same issue.   But not caused by a cycle lane !   

The woman who feels "hemmed in" whilst driving down that road, should be invited to ride a bike along a road, of the same width, which has no cycle provision.

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Despite the broad public support for the proposals during the formal consultation process earlier this year, a handful of local residents have criticised the council’s decision to narrow the road to allow for the cycle lanes

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Please don't be sucked into the uneducated media's tropes and phraseology.  The road is not being narrowed one centimetre. The general carriageway is being narrowed.

And then, as others have said, this doesn't hamper emergency services, who are trained to negotiate all sorts of situations of vehicles getting in the way, and have consistently said that cycle schemes do not delay them.

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“The more space you allocate to one form of transport,” Brew argued, “the less is available to other forms, which means that cars, for example, can't veer into the cycle lane to avoid a crash, or a pedestrian in the road.”

You shouldn't be driving such that you need to veer anywhere when there's a crash or pedestrian ahead of you. And that's not how you're supposed to react to it anyway.

I think the "holding up emergency vehicles" is a valid concern with the solution being that segregated infrastructure should be wide enough to accommodate a fire engine, with sufficient access points. After all, it is far easier for cyclists to clear the way than for bulky cars, vans, lorries etc. By doing this, it could be demonstrated that in many congested urban environments, that response times will actually be quicker, thus providing a further benefit to the wider community from high quality cycle infrastructure.

"“The more space you allocate to one form of transport,” Brew argued, “the less is available to other forms,......."

Are tories specially trained to talk complete and absolute BS?  He's only just come up with this classic double-think/double-speak nonsense which has been a truism for at least fifty years.  Allocate all the space for cars and there is no space for anyone else; public transport, cycling and walking, but it's the cars that cause the congestion, danger and pollution; he has no problem with that, but a cycle lane.....

I can only assume that this paragon of scientific analysis was on the cycle forum to sabotage anything that might work.

So the complaints are about narrowing a road with (from Google maps) a 40 limit to 6.4-6.6m

I.e. narrowing it to meet standard's that afaik on safety grounds advise it shouldn't be much wider than this because people tend to speed if you make it too wide, defeating the purpose of a reduced limit...

It is of course not cycle lanes that hold up emergency vehicles but motor traffic and due to it's volume, congestion.

If at least some of these ever so concerned motorists wish to aid the emergency services perhaps they could get out of their unnecessarily large metal boxes, get onto a bicycle and use the cycle route, thus reducing congestion, aiding said emergency services, the recently worried about less than able who cannot cycle (though of course that might mean no parking in wheelchair accessible parking spaces, not even for "just a minute" or by using their BOLAS) and reducing pollution.

Bournemouth Poole Christchurch Council. Basically Poole and Bournemouth are now 1. This is on my commute, and although looks great, is awful. It ends at a pelican crossing about 3 car lengths from the Northbourne roundabout, with no merge room. If going right at the roundabout, as I do on my commute, you are expected to press the beg button to cross. Onto a pavement, with no cycling allowed. Apparently there are plans to do something there, but not in current wave

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it is not necessary to mount the kerb and we would not advise any vehicle to do this.

They're giving advice to cars now?