The map fails on the very basic level – e.g. you have a criss-cross of paths in the Meadows, unconnected to anything else. What are you supposed to do? Push your bike along the pavement to get to them? Drive to them? Or say you live on one side of the city and your granny on the other? You might as well write “Here be monsters” in the white spaces.
But perhaps most damagingly of all, it also encourages segregation, in the mind of both cyclists and drivers. The way we get better safety for all cyclists is not by having dedicated cycle paths, it’s by having more cyclists on the big, wide, well connected bits of tarmac we already have.
winstonsmith – Member
the map would be useless for navigation as it doesn’t fill in the gaps. but hey, it got bikes on the news and it looks kinda neat
Ah – the Apple Map.