Cheshire East Local transport engagement

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RE: Cheshire East Local transport engagement

(01/12/2020 14:43)knutstransport Wrote:  Or worse just put a shared footway/cycle route sign on a section of pavement but don't reserve one side for pedestrians like they do in many European countries. Knutsford Business Park is an example of how to do a cycle route badly. The traffic lights only change when they detect a car or vehicle leaving the business park, so the 'shared space' is just a way of allowing cyclists to leave the business park legally and even then it only works in the cyclist is leaving in the direction of Knutsford.


The text says about there not being a good walking route and the proposal is for a better, more direct route. If you ask Google for walking directions it directs you to the staff & deliveries entrance. I'm guessing the idea is something like what exists for Burscough Bridge to Martin Mere.

Councils do like to promote cycling priorities which have have very little practical use. Slight side note, but as someone that has up til recently cycled to work early mornings, traffic lights that don't change for cyclists are a real bug bear.

Having looked at the routes between Goostrey and Jodrell Bank on Google Maps Street View, the quickest one goes partly across fields and could be enhanced, but as you say, it takes you to the wrong entrance. If you stay on the roads as advised by the Jodrell Bank website, you're following some very narrow country roads with no footpaths, and without adding footpaths is difficult to see how they could be improved.