Comments on: Flashback: Portland Neighbourhood Greenways

By: Will Andrews

Will Andrews — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:24:11 +0000

Great information from Portland, LennyBoy. Interesting to consider this, when NZ cyclists are so often being put into shared zones with pedestrians currently (though I found Berlin’s cycling infrastructure, often based on footpath-marked lanes, to be surprisingly successful – http://willandrewsdesign.com/?p=5316 ).

Looking at London’s Quietway last month (admittedly at the very busy Waterloo end) I was underwhelmed with the efforts made, and the success- felt almost like a normal city street with lots of traffic including commercial vehicles. So a real effort needs to be made to reduce & calm motor traffic -after, of course, analysing where such streets are in the overall cycling network.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 20:43:11 +0000

I think the litmus test for the success of our cycleway programme here will be the few metres of ‘neighbourhood greenway’ planned for Trafalgar Street , Edgeware along the Papanui Parallel route. This street is not a ‘quiet neighbourhood street’ it is a narrow curved traffic calmed access way ( read rat run at peak periods) which is lined with parked cars. Converting this into a greenway that will entice the 8 year old to 80 year old bike user to use and feel safe in is a challenge that I think will test the very best of planners and engineers. Fingers crossed !!.

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 20:15:27 +0000

Do you think some of these concepts could be reapplied to traffic calming and reduction around schools? Or do you have best practice examples for school traffic calming?