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[Image taken 27.5.23] Library Square, York. There is room to manoeuvre and park a longer rig here. Context: #194326. Other image today and links: #194408.
[Images taken 26.5.23] Deangate, York. The cycle with the trailer projects a minimum of 64cm further into the road than the others. (Compare with: #194419.) These racks are at the entrance to a nursery (Little Green Rascals … [more]
[Image taken 21.05.23] Malton Road, Huntington / York. Note the new sign. It says there is access to New Lane. That’s good. It’s true. This means pedestrians can continue to the path along this side of New Lane (and from there to the … [more]
[Image taken 14.5.23] Burton Stone Lane, York. After seeing width restrictions on cycle routes earlier today (see: #193941, #193950) I caught up with a person riding a recumbent trike. I asked her the dimensions of her rig. She was riding … [more]
[Image taken 14.5.23] Link route between New Lane and the Park & Ride at the LNER Community Stadium, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] This family was on its way to visit grandparents and have a picnic with them. The existence … [more]
[Image taken 14.5.23] Link route between New Lane and the Park & Ride at the LNER Community Stadium, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] New bollards have been installed. They may have met the minimum standard of the 150cm gap … [more]
[Image taken 9.4.23] York Minster Refectory, Deangate, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location]. Context: #192822. Other image today: #192841.
[Image taken 8.4.23] York Minster Refectory, Deangate, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] The end spaces on a run of racks can be invaluable: #165049. This is a wasted opportunity. It is too close to the wall on the left. You’d … [more]
[Image taken 8.4.23] York Minster Refectory, Deangate, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] Brand new provision for parking cycles. Easy to find, close to where you need it but… just 97cm apart. The clearly desperately needed York … [more]
[Image taken 17.3.23] Denning’s Yard access, York. The distance between the stopline (see: #192126) and the carrigeway is around 17-18m. Uphill. And crosses a very well used NMU path. The people on this have no warning when vehicle turns … [more]
[Image taken 17.3.23] Denning’s Yard access (looking towards the junction with Crichton Avenue – left - and Wigginton Road, York. The distance between the edge of the crossing and the carriageway is around 4m 20cm. It is uphill towards the … [more]
[Image taken 17.3.23] Denning’s Yard access looking west and downhill towards the York-Scarborough railway), York. The distance between the northern edge of the NMU crossing and the stopline is around 12m 56cm. There is a noticeable incline … [more]
[Image taken 17.3.23] Denning’s Yard access, York. The crossing is around 3m 80cm wide. Context and links: #192126.
[Image taken 17.3.23] Denning’s Yard access, York. From this stop line to the red tarmac (marked but not signalled) non motorised users crossing it is 8m 76cm see #192127 (and noticeably uphill). The distance between this stopline and the … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Wigginton Road, York. Shared use signage close to the entrance to the Cocoa Works (see: #182109). The development is now branded Cocoa Gardens. Other image here today and links: #191269.
[Image taken 20.2.23] Wigginton Road (east side), York. Entry to/from the Wigginton Road Link (as I call it) a shared use route between Wigginton Road and the Foss Islands Path. [NOTE: On 10.3.23 at a meeting in situ, Sustrans said, despite … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Wigginton Road (east side, close to junction with Crichton Avenue, looking north), York. Width of existing pavement see previous image(s) for context. Other image here today and links: #191269.
[Image taken 20.2.23] Wigginton Road (east side, close to junction with Crichton Avenue, looking north), York. The existing damaged narrow pavement with no protection from motor vehicles - which can include car transporters, etc, from air … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Wigginton Road, York. Pedestrian crossing over Wigginton Road (looking south). The current width of the crossing and the existing very tight turn required by and limited turning space available for people in mobility … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Wigginton Road, York. Pedestrian crossing over Wigginton Road (looking west). I'd like to see this crossing made into a toucan to enable people to move between Crichton Avenue and the routes to/from New Earswick, … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Wigginton Road, York. Pedestrian crossing over Wigginton Road (looking east), junction with Crichton Avenue. The measurements of the existing - pedestrian-only crossing. Note the car in the ASL. The driver sat here for … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Wigginton Road, junction with Crichton Avenue, York. A driver obstructs the ASL but the point of the image was the line of people - all, necessarily - walking single file up this very narrow and path that is in a poor … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Wigginton Road, junction with Crichton Avenue, York. The narrow pavement to/from a car park/access to/from allotments. Motor traffic here can be of the enormous variety - including in this direction. Pedestrians have … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Crichton Avenue (close to the junction with Wigginton Road), York. Queueing motor traffic on Wigginton Road. Note the driver has continued over the second stop line and is now obstructing the pedestrian crossing. Other … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Crichton Avenue (close to the junction with Wigginton Road), York. The currently pedestrian-only crossing over Crichton Avenue I'd like to see made into a toucan. (Context previous images.) Note the bus in the ASL. The … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Crichton Avenue (close to the junction with Wigginton Road), York. This is the other side of the pedestrian crossing over Crichton Avenue. If it were made into a toucan and the access alongside Wigginton Road (see … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Crichton Avenue (close to the junction with Wigginton Road), York. The amount of space for any user group - pedestrians waiting/arriving at the crossing; pedestrians passing/leaving the crossing; people on cycles … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Crichton Avenue (close to the junction with Wigginton Road), York. Just 260cm wide this route is shared with all varieties of non motorised users. The cyclist heading downhill is often very close to the kerb. At night … [more]
[Image taken 20.2.23] Library Square, York. Image taken to show how the minimum natural amount of space a two-wheeler might need ahead of and behind the racks. (Context: #191163.) Also, the typical position of cycles on Sheffields. The … [more]
[Image taken 17.2.23] York St John University, off Clarence Street, York. Context and links: #191137.
[Image taken 17.2.23] York St John University, off Clarence Street, York. Context and links: #191137.
[Image taken 13.2.23] Waitrose, Foss Islands Road, York. 35cm gap this end and 45cm gap between the ends of the racks and the parked vehicle is not enough. So these 4 racks – that’s 8 cycle parking spaces - can’t be used. Other image here … [more]
[Image taken 13.2.23] Waitrose, Foss Islands Road, York. Access to the cycle parking is obstructed. The gap is 140cm. However, to avoid making contact with anything let alone something you could damage you’d leave at least 25cm either side, … [more]
[Image taken 14.2.23] Aldi, Water Lane, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] The cycle is around 86cm wide between the axles. There's room to get it in and out. There's room to manoeuvre and to load/unload the cycle next to it too. … [more]
[Image taken 13.2.23] Former Bootham Park Hospital, York. This is a key part of the Scarborough Bridge to Bootham Park cycle route improvements scheme (overview: #177537). I believe, the cycle light in this image became operational on the … [more]
[UPDATE: An email from CYC dated 20.2.23 says: "The current status of your report is: closed. The problem has been inspected and no follow up work is required."] [Image taken 8.2.23] Grosvenor Terrace, York. The laceration is around 154cm … [more]
[Image taken 6.2.23] St Andrewgate, York. Two cycles with flat bars and panniers (two on the left-hand cycle and one- on the right-hand machine). The cycle on the left has been reversed in. Men tend to be wider above the 'clutter line' (the … [more]
[Image taken 6.2.23] St Andrewgate, York. These two Sheffields (cycle parking rack design) are further apart than others. 120cm is the minimum to be comfortable, in my view. Other image this subject today: #190844. Other image today and … [more]
[UPDATE: All the signs relating to the works have been removed.] [Image taken 1.2.23] Bootham Terrace, York. I approached this street from the other direction. I saw there wasn't enough space for anyone let alone a wheelchair user or parent … [more]
[Image taken 18.1.23] Wigginton Road, York. This cyclist has a skinny two-wheeled cycle with no luggage or passengers... But the space is clearly too narrow to pass through easily and safely. The 'feet'/supports of the barriers reduce the … [more]
[Image taken 18.1.23] Wigginton Road, York. The space left for all non motorised users on this link used by all ages, for all reasons, on foot with dogs and buggies; hand in hand with children; by people with sight issues; people who are … [more]
[Image taken 11.1.23] Clifton Moor Retail Park - the area with Dunelm at one end and Tenpin at the other, Stirling Road, York. The bollards are too close to the racks. 140cm is insufficient space even for a standard cycle. When reversing … [more]
Spent an interesting time this afternoon exploring - and measuring up - the "Dutch Roundabout" in Cambridge. The things one does for leisure after a PhD with a focus on accessibility… 😅 A very brief thread… cc @RantyHighwayman @camcycle … [more]
[Image taken 10.12.22] Library Square, York. Compare with the rack design and space allocated for cycles at a Co-op I passed en route: #188686, #188687. Other image today and links: #188672.
[Image taken 10.12.22] Co-op, 143-145 Tang Hall Lane, York. The racks need to be sufficiently far back from a vertical structure 'ahead'/ in front of the supports that you can roll your cycle in far enough for the uprights to support it. … [more]
[Image taken 10.12.22] Co-op, 143-145 Tang Hall Lane, York. Context and links: #188684. The minimum recommended distance between uprights (and therefore also any vertical structure to the side of cycle parking) is 100cm. The recommended … [more]
[Image taken 26.11.22] The Village, Haxby. The bollards and the planter protect the cycles using these Sheffields from motor vehicles. Other image here today and links: #188093.
[Image taken 26.11.22] The Village, Haxby. Adequate rather than generous spacing but they provide securing and supporting points for people visiting the shops and cafes here. Other image here today and links: #188093.
[Image taken 26.11.22] The Village, Haxby. As I was taking these images, someone arrived on the black cycle in the background and simply locked it to itself against the planter. They are clearly appreciated and well used by regulars. Other … [more]
[Image taken 26.11.22] The Village, Haxby. Generous space for larger/wider cycles and/or a family or group of friends sharing a lock. Other images here today: #188087.
[Image taken 26.11.22] The Village, Haxby. 120cm between the upright/support/securing point and the area marked for cycles, plus a further 70cm to the edge of the CYCLES label painted on the tarmac, and 95cm from there to the carriageway. … [more]
[Image taken 26.11.22] The Village, Haxby. Adequate spacing around the uprights/supports makes this cycle parking practical, comfortable and convenient to use. Other images here today: #188087.
[Image taken 27.11.22] Burton Stone Lane (northbound), York. The temporary A-board duplicates the high level (too high?) permanent sign on the other side of the road: Priority over oncoming vehicles. It creates an actual pavement width of … [more]
[Image taken 27.11.22] Burton Stone Lane (looking southbound), York. The temporary A-board obstructs the pavement. There is no drop kerb this side for someone in a mobility scooter, wheelchair, a child on a balance bike, someone with … [more]
[UPDATE: On 30.11.22 I received a reply from a traffic engineer to my complaints about the temporary signage obstructing pavements. "Thank you for your email regarding the temporary signing on Burton Stone Lane, and I am sorry to hear of … [more]
[Image taken 27.11.22] Burton Stone Lane (looking southbound), York. Pavement width and quality meets no standards. Other image and links nearby today: #188013.
[Image taken 27.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, looking southbound, York. Actual pavement width 105cm. To get the usable width you subtract 20cm from the kerb side ie 85cm. Motorists speed along here. The pedestrian experience is unpleasant at … [more]
[Image from 31.12.22 showing priority sign: #188989.] [Image taken 20.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. Usable width 102 - 20 = 82. But I would not want to make contact with the speed cushion either so - 20 = 62cm. Other image today and … [more]
[Image taken 20.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. Context and links: #187792. Other image today and links: #187780.
[Image taken 20.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. Context: #187760. The usable width is 126 – (20 + 20) = 86cm. Other images this piece of infra today: #187793, #187794, and debris from damaged vehicles that hit this splitter island: #187795. … [more]
[Image taken 20.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. Northbound carriageway though taken looking southbound. Usable width for people on cycles: 115 - 20 = 95cm. But I would not want to touch the speed cushion so that's a further 20cm to deduct. … [more]
[Image taken 20.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. Southbound. Usable width for people on cycles: 119 - 20 = 99cm. But I would not want to touch the speed cushion so that's a further 20cm to deduct. Therefore the usable width is 79cm. … [more]
[Image taken 20.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, southbound, close to the junction with Avenue Road/Grosvenor Road, York. Two new speed cushions drivers simply straddle replace the previous three cushions. View in other direction: #188987. … [more]
[Image taken 20.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. [Image taken 20.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. Width of southbound carriageway 300 – (20 + 20) = 260cm. Width of northbound carriageway: #187781. Other image today and links: #187780.
[Image taken 20.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. Original island with keep left symbol on bollard. Note it is a replacement. There’s the evidence of damage behind it. The width of the northbound (the image direction is southbound) … [more]
[Image taken 18.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. Context this image: #187760. Context/overview and links for the traffic calming installed week beginning 14.11.22 see: #187753.
[Image taken 18.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. Note the absence of the two wands. (Compare with the intact structure: #187754.) These were at either end of the splitter island but barely visible after dark. They have a reflective covering … [more]
[Image taken 18.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. This local resident was happy to pose for a photo. He said he'd already written three emails to CYC about the new layout and would be writing another today. He is not actually moving and his … [more]
[Image taken 18.11.22] Burton Stone Lane, York. The Aboard is intended to make the road safer. It's pedestrians who need most protection here. 90cm is too narrow. You don't go right up to signs or walls. So the usable space is rather less … [more]
[MY EXPERIENCE 29.3.23: At around 12.25 I was cycling southbound. There was a driver behind me. I didn't use the cycle channel - it takes me out of the position I am most visible and can't be ignored. I maintained the line. Around 20m … [more]
[Sustrans reply from 13.1.23 "[Ref Foss Bridge] The 3cm gaps you have highlighted in the photos are connection plates of the bridge deck to the path. These are a necessary structural design to manage the understood movement of the bridge. … [more]
[Image taken 13.11.22] Co-op, Campleshon Road, York. The roundtopped Sheffield racks – I think flattopped Sheffields offer more support and more locking surface area – are not well positioned. One is in front of a louvre. Is this intended … [more]
[Image taken 13.11.22] Co-op, Campleshon Road, York. Sheffields to one side - not visible, not signposted, nowhere near - the new Co-op. Perhaps they support short-stay cycle delivery to the residents? But is this a residents entrance? If … [more]
[Image taken 12.11.22] Stirling Road, York. Sheffield stands. Under cover. Space 'head'/'in front' of the supports (ie between the rack and the wall). Close-ish to the entrance of the bowling alley: tenpin … [more]
[Image taken 10.11.22] Ratcliffe Street, junction with Haughton Road, York. Context and links: #187653. Other image today and links: #187649.
[NOTE: 21.11.22 This sign - and another at the junction of Haughton Road and Field View - needs now to be removed. The works have finished. I will email to request this.] [UPDATE: At 16.15 this sign was still in this position and … [more]
[Image taken 9.11.22] Crichton Avenue/Denning’s Yard Access/Wigginton Road, York. 5.5.4 in LTN 1/20 … [more]
[Image taken 9.11.22] Crichton Avenue/Denning’s Yard Access/Wigginton Road, York. Space requirements for pavement users 'Typical footway widths for people walking' : … [more]
[Image taken 9.11.22] Crichton Avenue/Denning’s Yard Access/Wigginton Road, York. Image this position in other direction: #187626. Usable width 126cm - (50cm + 20cm) = 56cm. [Explanation: #187629.] Context and links: #187621.
[Image taken 9.11.22] Crichton Avenue/Denning’s Yard Access/Wigginton Road, York. Image this position in the other direction: #187627. Context and links: #187621.
[Image taken 9.11.22] Crichton Avenue/Denning’s Yard Access/Wigginton Road, York. Step out, wheelchair out, cycle out from here and your back is to any drivers turning into Denning's Yard access by accident or design. And the vehicles may … [more]
[Image taken 9.11.22] Crichton Avenue/Denning’s Yard Access/Wigginton Road, York. Steep, pronounced camber, a solid wall one one side, a busy road on the other, and just 122cm wide. This location viewed in the other direction: #187625. … [more]
[Image taken 9.11.22] Denning’s Yard Access, Crichton Avenue/Wigginton Road, York. The pavement on the right is as much a desire line across the mouth of this road as is the coloured tarmac link between Foss Islands Path (immediately to the … [more]
[Image taken 9.11.22] Crichton Avenue/Denning’s Yard Access/Wigginton Road, York. Looking uphill along the shared use cycle-ped-scooter-wheelchair route on Crichton Avenue road bridge at the steep incline over the York-Scarborough rail … [more]
[Image taken 9.11.22] Crichton Avenue/Denning’s Yard Access/Wigginton Road, York. This is a route for non motorised users. Reasons for people using it include: culture, education, food and other shopping, gardening (there are allotments … [more]
[Image taken 4.11.22] Cinder Mews, Jubilee Terrace, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] I had arranged to meet Julie from York Bike Belles (https://yorkbikebelles.community/) here today. I wanted to know if she could get through … [more]
[Image taken 4.11.22] St Barnabas, Jubilee Terrace, Leeman Road, York. St Barnabas (https://stbarnabasyork.org.uk/) was the site of several of my York firsts. A consultation – about York Central www.yorkcentral.info/; realisation people who … [more]
[NOTE: While taking images here: #191289 I asked one of the people cycling on what is a pavement why he used that route. He said he had, at different times, broken his shoulder and an arm on the spiral slope. He said his friends with … [more]
[Image taken 27.10.22] Aldi, Water Lane, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] Aldi staff are storing/displaying the chain’s wares in the covered walkway area. This massively restricts the width of the route plus the nearside space … [more]
[Image taken 25.10.22] Terry Avenue (entrance to Rowntree Park car park is first left), York. Re-spaced bollards. Now 84cm, 150cm (the minimum recommended in LTN1/20), 66cm. Context see: #185665.
[Image taken 22.10.22] M X Park, Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York YO32 9GZ. [NOTE: No street view yet at this location] Context and link: #187061.
[Image taken 22.10.22] M X Park, Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York YO32 9GZ. [NOTE: No street view yet at this location] Wasted space, wasted opportunity. 39cm is too narrow store a cycle or even part of one: #183669. The design of the … [more]
[UPDATE: On 4.11.22 I did a count here while waiting for someone - #187500. It was a dry, sunny day though sharp and gusty by the time I was here. In 30 minutes, 15.12-15.42, 74 people passed through. Dog walkers; a runner with a buggy and … [more]
[Image taken 28.9.22] Raylor Centre, James Street, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] 54cm is insufficient space ahead of the support racks to accommodate many/most cycles. You need to be able to wheel even a standard length … [more]
[Image taken 28.9.22] Raylor Centre, James Street, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] Someone has managed to get their cycle into this gap of just 48cm. You wouldn't be able to load/unload in situ. You'd have to feed your cycle … [more]
[Image taken 28.9.22] Raylor Centre, James Street, York. [NOTE: No street view at this location] Context and comments about the measurements, also links: #186444.
[Image taken 25.9.22] Screwfix (Clifton Moor), Stirling Road, York. [NOTE: No streetview at this location] How do you get a cycle into these spaces? The access between the supports and the hedge is just 74cm, there’s very little room to … [more]
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