Not particularly relevant to current discussion, but I came a cross a new variant of the anti-rat-run measures when mapping a new estate in Chepstow at weekend. Two halves of the estate were separated by a road closed to cars, but with cycle/foot access. The blocker was a lowerable pole with lights on (sorry no photo) that seemed to be possible to be activated by "estate dwellers", by some cardswipe type authority control.
Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Learning and Quality Enhancement Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/chiltons.asp Chair of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/ SoC conference 2008: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Allan Sent: 24 September 2008 11:30 To: Ed Loach Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Oneway assumes cars? On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Ed Loach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy wrote: > >> Actually they aren't - what they are doing is making one end of >> the >> road no access to motorised vehicles. So the road itself is no >> longer >> technically oneway, so it shouldn't need cycleway=opposite... > > So motorised vehicles can come in from the other end of the road, > approach the bit where they wouldn't normally be allowed to enter in > the opposite direction, then do a U-turn and leave the way they > came? Legally, it appears so, and is certainly the case in I think Hackney where they've been doing it already. It makes sense, because the onewayness was never to control the behaviour of the cars within the street, only to prevent cars from entering the street from the wrong end (and therefore control the flow patterns on the wider-area street network). Most onewayness in these areas are anti-rat-run measures, which is why they are increasingly becoming seen as inappropriate for cyclists to also be prevented from going down them. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
