Good Cycling Facility of the Week: 27th August 2020

This week's Good Cycling Facility is a Low Traffic Neighbourhood in the Highfields area of the city of Leicester.

As might be guessed from the trees in the street, this is an old scheme, dating back several decades - a series of modal filters like the ones in the photograph have effective converted a formerly 'open' network of residential streets into a series of access-only dead-end streets for motor traffic, while full permeability has been retained for walking and cycling.

It's worth remembering that Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are not new - they have been around for a very long time, and that where they do exist, there are no efforts to remove them!