Improving Hull’s cycle network – Have Your Say on CommonPlace
The latest proposals to upgrade two key routes in Hull’s cycle network are now available online for your suggestions and comments:
Have Your Say Today – Beverley Road HEY LEP Cycle Route Improvement Scheme – Commonplace
Have Your Say Today – Hull To Cottingham HEY LEP Cycle Route – Commonplace
Both schemes run along major routes into and out of the city and we believe getting them right will help make Hull’s transport network safer and more convenient for everyone – and particularly encourage a shift towards more active travel.
CycHull has been in touch with Hull City Council to offer our feedback.
If you would also like to have your say and are unsure where to start, below is a brief summary of the feedback given. Please feel free to copy or adapt these in making your own comments. These can be submitted via the links above (in the spaces for comments at the bottom of the forms) or by sending an email to cyclinghull@hullcc.gov.uk.
Off road segregated bike paths merging with combined bus and bike lanes are dangerous; this aspect of the scheme needs rethinking.
Cyclists are most vulnerable at junctions / changes of direction. The traffic light controlled junctions on the routes should have off road segregated protection.
Specifically, cyclists must be protected when turning right - the same method for allowing cyclists to cross from west-to-east at Station Drive could be used at the Fountain Road junction.
There are not enough safe options for cyclists to cross the major roads in the schemes (Beverley Road and Bricknell Ave). Safety and convenience (or lack of) are the two major reasons for pavement cycling. By failing to provide cyclists crossing points of the major roads, journeys that cross them or require a change of direction along them are not being accommodated and, subsequently, the schemes will not tackle pavement cycling. This could be addressed by converting all existing crossings to bike-permissive designs (Toucans or parallel Zebras).
All off road segregated sections of bike path should conform to the minimum widths stipulated in LTN 1/20.
More thought should be given to continuing off road segregated sections of bike path that are close together i.e. Fountain Road to Station Drive.
More thought should be given to how these schemes tie-in to existing infrastructure or routes that lie beyond the scope of these schemes i.e. existing off road segregated bike path on Fountain Road; north-south journeys along the length of Chanterlands Ave, east-west journeys along Sutton Road / Greenwood Ave.
Floating parking needs to be trialled in the city; the Beverley Road scheme would be the perfect opportunity.
Painting cycle symbols on a road that is already awful to cycle along (Victoria Ave, but could apply to any of the Avenues) is not a suitable link in a key cycle route.
Cycle infrastructure at the city boundary should not reduce in quality to accommodate poor quality infrastructure in the East Riding - the desired quality should start at the boundary and the East Riding encouraged catch up.