661-Pete wrote:A 10mph limit on a level road would seem unduly slow, to me and probably the majority of cyclists. But on a shared path - if the need arose I'd certainly keep to such a limit. Indeed, on the short stretches of shared path that I cannot avoid using, I'm often down to less than half that speed.
This is not a shared path and it's not level - it slopes gently down towards Hyde Park Corner. Installing cobbled crash hazards (they are NOT speed humps) and gravel to distract cyclists on the approaches to pedestrian crossings seems like a very crazy idea - surely no-one would think it a good idea to install trip hazards on the pedestrian entry to a zebra, so why's it any different for cycles?
The conflict in Hyde Park is largely down to the incompetent parks authority repeatedly refusing to do what's been shown to work: coloured surfacing to guide users (they could use green instead of the customary red or blue for the cycle track, or ideally anti-slip brown for the footways), zebra markings across the cycle track at the main crossing desire points and a wide enough cycleable space that people can walk across in the natural gaps, rather than the current situation where cycling has been channeled into a narrow space and so long trains often form downhill so people walking wait longer for gaps.
Also, if the parks authority actually did more to tackle the motor traffic casualty/intimidation problem on West Carriage Drive (EW CS might have helped - I've not tried it yet) and signposted it better, more people might cycle the shorter and wider Serpentine route to/from Paddington, rather than use Broad Walk to get away from motorists.
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