rmurphy195 wrote:MikeF wrote:Wouldn't it have been so much better for cyclists and pedestrians if there had been underpasses? Why should pedestrians have to walk/cycle all that unnecessary climb and distance. The roads could even have been raised slightly so that pedestrians/cyclists had a level path.
There are differing views on this - prime among them the one that has people objecting to being pushed undergraound by machines (cars). I'm sure I read somewhere that that is partially the reason why our inner ring road in Birmingham has underpassess, but i might have imagined that.
Are the underpasses for motors, or for people - I don't know Birmingham at all but I tell you, the last remaining pedestrian underpasses in Halifax and the pedestrian/cyclist underpasses in neighbouring Bradford are not fit for humans. In some of them in Bradford people prefer to risk their lives and climb railings to cross the main artery intersections in Bradford.................and it's partly because of various aspects of appalling behaviour and partly because of council neglect.