Good Cycling Facility of the Week: 27th August 2015
This week's Good Facility is an example of a common piece of infrastructure alongside fast Dutch main roads through rural areas - a service road.
Such a road functions both as a safe environment for walking and cycling, but also as a route for agricultural traffic, keeping these slower moving vehicles away from the faster parallel N-road (equivalent to a British A-road), which will have a speed limit of 80 km/h.
Danger is reduced both for people walking and cycling, and also for those people travelling on the main road, by eliminating speed differentials - a key principle of Sustainable Safety, homogeneity.
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andreengels
27 August, 2015 - 09:57
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Apart from removing slow
Apart from removing slow-speed traffic (bicycles and agricultural vehicles) from the N road, the service roads also function to remove the need to have minor agricultural roads or even driveways to connect to the N road, having them connect to the service road instead. That way, traffic on the N road becomes both faster and safer, because there are much fewer places where vehicles might slow down to exit or enter the road.