Hey singletrackworld users I'm a civil engineering student from Oldham currently studying in Liverpool, and this is my cycling infrastructure dissertation survey.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pFu84yhd7cshVYZR8LiOzLvhlydtdu14kLyCPkZ6BeY/viewform
A lot of what my dissertation will be is going to be critiquing the roads in and around Manchester and the planned infrastructure such as Oxford Rd that is currently happening, but also in a much broader sense infrastructure in general across the nation.
I will be forever in your debt and hopefully in years to come will be able to make the roads a safer place for ALL road users.
Google Drive
The app is currently unreachable.
Sorry it's not working for you, it is working for myself and other house mates.
Perhaps give it another click.
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Done, interesting survey actually but there were a couple of pics that weren't overly clear in their explanation.
Probably blocked here then, apologies.
I would be very interested in reading your dissertation when you complete it...I did my dissertation on a very similar subject .... improving cycle infrastructure to Man Met Uni on Oxford Road, back in 2001.
I'll make a note of your username, just out of interest is your dissertation posted anywhere I could find it?
filled it but as above, some options weren't clear - e.g. on a two way cycle lane the picture showed a lane from america so I clicked an option appropriate to them...
also the questions seem heavily biased towards road riding, I ride off-road for leisure so a traffic free route is very high on my agenda 🙂
I suspect you'll get some mixed interpretation of the two directional dutch cycle lanes. The ones you've shown are for 'Euro folk' who travel on the other side of the road. Some people might notice this in the pic and answer accordingly, others might not and may base their answer on travelling on the left à la UK. You could have mirrored the image.
(edit - beaten to it)
On the one showing the roundabout you refer to the lanes as inside and outside. For travelling on a road I suspect many people will refer to the nearside, or lane 1 as the inside and the one closest to the opposing flow of traffic as the outside. Which might be different to you calling the lane closest to the entre of the roundabout as the inside lane.
Thanks you all for the input, sadly I can't change much about the survey as it stands because I've already received so many responses but I'm documenting all of these criticisms to point out in the write up.
p.s. much of it is vague on purpose as to not indirectly educate about how the infrastructure should be used while asking the question.
Done but mixing the images of Dutch infrastructure with British was a little confusing.
ditto about some of the diagrams and the inside/outside (couple of times I put in a text answer for "other" that is probably described in the options above it but I didn't know which)
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No I don't think it is posted anywhere. I only have paper copy of it somewhere. to be honest, I now work in transport infrastructure engineering and last time I read what I had written it seemed a bit naïve! Although I did get a good mark for it.
Cycle infrastructure is obviously a hot topic at the moment, as is how well perceived different types of facility are. It might be worth getting in touch with the road safety team at Transport for London to get information from them on road safety performance of their newest infrastructure...I know they do good monitoring work on it.
Good luck with your survey, I had a go at filling it out but it didn't really flow for someone who lives in the sticks. Do you mind unintentionally selecting for urban dwellers by its design? Things like there is only one route between here and work etc.
Still, that's just my opinion so probably ignorable unless other folk make the same comment.
Done it
There have been a couple of interesting articles about cycling infrastructure on [url= http://www.londonreconnections.com/ ]London Reconnections[/url] recently, with some (note SOME) informed opinion in the comments.
Not sure if you want me filling it in, but I guess you can disregard replies based on location. I answered based on my experience commuting in Sweden, and to a lesser extent the UK. One thing to perhaps note in answers from respondees such as myself is that in many European countries you are legally bound to use the cycle-lane if there is one. This is reflected in my answers about where I would position myself, but the corresponding answers regarding which I prefer should hopefully show how effective I think they actually are.
I suspect you'll get some mixed interpretation of the two directional dutch cycle lanes. The ones you've shown are for 'Euro folk' who travel on the other side of the road. Some people might notice this in the pic and answer accordingly, others might not and may base their answer on travelling on the left à la UK. You could have mirrored the image.
Yep, I answered according to the picture. Also, what happens if I'm simultaneously anxious, concerned, and worried?
Page about recreation has questions about shopping/leisure rides which are then repeated on the next page - I assume the former are meant to be about recreation?
Also, re roundabout:
"The middle of the inside lane keeping to the centre of the roundabout"
Do you mean the inside lane relative to the roundabout or relative to the kerb (the common meaning)
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Also done (or doing).
On the ASL questions, does "the 1st white line" mean the one at the front of the junction (nearest the lights) or the one nearest to the streetview camera?
Also, I'm not sure how Dutch some of those 'Dutch' junctions actually are. they look worryingly like the typical UK misinterpreted version of Dutch infrastructure (like the [url= https://departmentfortransport.wordpress.com/tag/turbogate/ ]Bedford "Turbo Rounadbout"[/url].)
Ditto the above, the 'euro' pics could have beeen mirrored to make them make sense to a UK driver/rider.
The two way dutch lane had me stumped as none of the options really said "in the correct bike lane", there was "far left in the oncoming lane", "oncoming lane" and "middle".
Not sure how I'd feel about those dutch junctions/roundabouts. On the one hand [b]IF[/b] car's gave way as they should it would be fine for commuting, but the layout doesn't really allow you to merge back into the traffic safely if the traffics moving freely and quickly (and not looking where it's going).
There's some round here with bike lanes for turning left which are fine and make life easier, no need to stop and wait for a gap in the traffic. But for going round a roundabout or making a right turn I'd park myself slap bang in the middle of the apropriate lane to make it clear to drivers whant I'm doing and where I'm going.
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