Northfield Bypass Farcicality
- The three vertical posts reduce the passage to single file! Why not put the bike sign on one of the road sign posts? Better still why not put the road sign on the central reservation?
- The cycle way ends at the crossing! What do pedestrians do if a cyclist approaches? Cyclist dismount?
- The supermarket guarantees a lot of pedestrian traffic crossing a cyclist's path but there's no clear indication of who has priority or where they should be. Compare to the clarity of Vienna.
- Why the penchant for putting pedestrians & cyclists behind bars?
There is plenty of room given the wide central reservation for the sign to be moved off the pathway and for physically separate cycleways in both directions.
At the east/city end of the farce, it finally wiggles onto a narrowish cycle lane which continues more or less to Selly Oak. Just running this, preferably slightly wider, through the bypass would have been so much better.
Why do such a poor job?
Perhaps it was designed by the John Cleese School of Funny
Walks?
Or they ran out of jelly beans too soon?
