Good Cycling Facility of the Week: 14th August 2014

This is the Ampton Street junction on Gray's Inn Road in London. It's a busy crossroads, but as you can see, this arm of the junction is cycle-only, with a dedicated stage for cycle traffic, free from conflict with motor traffic.

We're featuring this junction mainly because, while good as far as London junctions go, we think it would be an ideal location to trial simultaneous green - allowing people cycling and walking to move in all directions, at once, from all directions. This is a highly efficient way of moving people through junctions.

At present this bicycle green stage is separate from a pedestrian all-green stage, and a green stage for the traffic flowing out of the junction opposite. A simultaneous green could consequently be employed twice per cycle, greatly increasing the amount of time pedestrians and people cycling get to move through this junction, as well as its overall efficiency. Such an arrangement would require separate signalisation of cycle traffic on all arms of the junction, including Gray's Inn Road.

How about it?