And sorry to dunk on people trying stuff, we absolutely need all of the tools in the box, but we also need to be doing it *really* well for the approach to gain credibility.

Thanks for articulating exactly my initial concerns with this project. I know large scale projects need funding, but I also have suspicions about the commercial motivations of those involved/interested so far - which will undoubtedly shape the intervention.

Also, it looks very similar to GM's previous Velocity 2025 scheme, which largely focused on traffic-free routes, like the Bridgewater Canal path, because it meant not having difficult conversations about taking space away from cars.

The #CyanLines initiative sounds really good, but there’s concern it’s going to be the usual conflation of #ActiveTravel with leisure cycling & that GM councils will use it as a substitute for a proper AT network, especially given the slow progress of the original #BeeNetwork vision.

Please please see @londoncycling.bsky.social ’s Women’s freedom after dark report. this looks and smells to me like a council that just doesn’t want to reallocate road space and thereby shows they actually don’t care about safety after all, ie fob off alert