Local bike lane past the school has been 'improved' however only because it was installed so badly in the first place ie no dropped kerbs and a route that took it swerving back and forth from one side of a road to another with no crossing places.
Lots and lots of money wasted on big glossy metal signs saying 'consultation' followed by 'this will now be improved soon'. Most of these signs were not needed.
I attended a consultation – instead of looking for ideas they just showed maps of all the existing paths they were going to tart up a bit. The pedestrian / cyclist tunnel they said most people had asked for in the consultation instead of the tarting up 'will not be happening for years'.
Bristol bike rental scheme is bust, but little is being said about this. It was doomed to fail anyway as not only were most of the bike chains and handlebars rusty but there were only a few 'stations' and they were almost next to each other making it faster to walk between them than release a bike and re-lock it.
A lot of money seems to have been wasted on visiting and telling individual adults what route to cycle to work. Lets face it, if people cant be bothered to look for a route they are not very motivated.
Some kind of bike loan was set up so that adults could borrow a bike for a few weeks to see how they got on biking – A really good thing. Again, hardly any publicity that I have seen.
Group rides round the city were set up to help people practice cycling – Despite being an interested cyclist I only found this out after most of the events had taken place – no big signs advertising these!
The people promoting cycling visited the local Uni – on a day when huge numbers of students had an end of year work hand in, so were worn out and disinterested or they had already left to travel home for the break. Also none of the uni staff were told the project was visiting so they all missed it too.
On the whole it seems mostly a scheme that purchases excessive numbers of signs, large numbers of banners for the city centre that serve no practical purpose and self publicises how successful it is, rather than something actually useful to large numbers of the public.
Could have done a lot better if their heart had been actually in it.