This week's Good Facility isn't perfect, but it gets a lot right. It is a bi-directional cycleway along Avenue Felix Faure in Nice - a connection to the seafront.
Achieving the Mayor’s Vision for Cycling in London (March 2013) will, amongst other things, require London practitioners to apply tried-and- tested techniques from around the world to the London context, and to innovate as necessary. To this end, TfL commissioned a study of selected cities, to understand better what makes for success in relation to cycle infrastructure, safety and culture. The study was tasked to focus on design approaches in cities with high levels of cycling and/or recent significant growth in cycling numbers.
This path in Zwolle forms a direct connection under a four lane main road, a railway line, and a further road, all without any delay, or interaction with motor traffic.
This week's Good Facility is an example of grade separation on a grand scale - a cycling (and walking) bridge that spans a major junction to the north of the city of Zwolle.
