I know they don't post here much, but I'll be speaking at the @appgcw.bsky.social late on Monday afternoon on the subject of #FloatingBusStops
Some might find a couple of my slides controversial 😬
I'll publish them on @cityinfinity.bsky.social next week.
This week's IL newsletter: Floating bus stops – #SightScotland warns that new designs risk undermining independence for people with #VisualImpairment. #FloatingBusStops #AccessibleTransport #InclusiveStreets #ILnews
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I see NFBUK has been delivering anti-cycling petitions to No.10 again, or it might be the same one because they never tell us.
#Niche
#FloatingBusStops
The thing is, those who oppose #FloatingBusStops will continue to do so whatever the design guidance says.
Meanwhile, not a word about how most side road junctions are hard to cross for many people.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A huge number of people using this cycle track. Which has #FloatingBusStops.
A group of people gathered in a small, informal conference room for a discussion on "Accessible bus stops". A number of people are sitting at a central table in front of a colorful mural on a wall and a large screen displaying speaker names and sponsors. Other participants are attentively listening and taking notes. One speaker in a large powered wheelchair wearing purple wearing a lanyard is addressing the group. A person in the foreground wears a hat and a T-shirt with the logo "Wheels for Wellbeing."
Packed room at #ActiveCity for very topical discussion on #Accessible bus stops (incl #FloatingBusStops) with speakers from @guidedogsuk.bsky.social @livingstreets.bsky.social @ategov.bsky.social
This would not be possible without #FloatingBusStops.
@heidialexander.bsky.social @simonlightwood.org.uk
Want to avoid #FloatingBusStops? This is what needs to happen, unless there is too many buses.
One size does not fit all.
This couldn't exist without #FloatingBusStops
Banning #FloatingBusStops (which are used internationally with few problems) is effectively a ban on protected cycling lanes… which means more pavement cycling and increasing the very conflict people pushing for an FBS ban claim to be campaigning against.
#ActiveTravel
There’s still time to submit a statement to the committee #FloatingBusStops
A valid point about #FloatingBusStops - these are international best practice and if there was a decent alternative, someone else would have developed in the last 50 years. As no-one has…
The argument against them is a combination of bad faith opposition to #ActiveTravel, and #BritishExceptionalism
