Design guide lines and evaluation The first London Cycling Design Standards (LCDS) was published in 2005, with a complete revision in 2014 – a 355-page document of design guidelines for strategies and design solutions for achieving the best possible bicycle infrastructure. The LDCS can be viewed as the tool to turn the Mayor’s ‘vision for cycling’ into practitioner details – transforming policies and goals into tangible technical details. The goal is to plan out and deliver a London-wide network for cycling with safe, comfortable, direct, coherent, attractive and adaptable infrastructure. The LCDS contains best practice from both national and international examples, and built upon the 2014 benchmarking study of international bicycle infrastructure of Urban Movement, The LCDS consists of guidance and support for all those involved in the design of bicycle infrastructure - planners, engineers, builders etc. ”While it carries no legal …show more content…
The 20 guiding principles presented below are fundamental to that approach. Working through them can help practitioners to understand what it will take to deliver the Mayor’s Vision. They are geared towards learning from what has been done well in the past and tackling the reasons why many previous attempts to deliver good cycling infrastructure have fallen short.” (TfL, 2014) Guiding Principles 1. Cycling is now mass transport and must be treated as such 2. Facilities must be designed for larger numbers of users 3. Cycles must be treated as vehicles, not as pedestrians 4. Cyclists need space separated from volume motor traffic 5. Where full segregation is not possible, semi-segregation may be the answer 6. Separation can also be achieved by using lower-traffic streets. 7. Where integration with other road users is necessary, differences of speed, volume and vehicle type should be