Hi,
There's a recently altered road junction in Sheffield which has been changed to take advantage of a newly filtered street.
Priority has been changed so that the cycle route has priority over crossing traffic (of which there is lots at peak times). This is part of a cycle route through the cities university area. Some videos showing the junction and the problems.
The location is here: https://goo.gl/maps/5VH5P3ZLQzR2
It's not working, as you can see from the videos. People driving across simply don't know to give way and check for crossing traffic. I'm wondering what design features/best practice has been missed that makes this design not work.
What I've got so far:
- Give way markings in grey, on grey stone, not visible enough, should be white on black.
- Very little differentiation between cycle surface and car surface (should be black and red).
- No hump up to the cycle route.
- Big wide radius corners, they should be much tighter.
- The cycle route road might be too wide, making turning onto it and off of it easy at speed.
Any thoughts?
Cheers
