Ballito bike lane concept

[100Tours]

14 hours ago, Adrian Parkinson said:

By the way, does anyone have any suggestions on how a street like this could be improved? I don't see any room to add a bike lane unless everyone is willing to give up their verges.

This is the only street that connects Ballito and Salt Rock unless you want to take the N2, which isn't cyclable in the slightest.

The best option is to divert cycling traffic onto any other route - although I realise that this may be impossible. Even if you can divert bicycles off of the main road only for limited sections this would allow you to have more tightly governed and signposted 'mixed use zones' in between the zones of badly behaved car traffic.

European developments often use bike route turn off's to take bike traffic onto a secondary route for a few '00m before they merge back again. 

Edited April 30, 2022 by 100Tours

[RobbyB]

On a narrow road, the downhill side is no problem for the bikes to mix in with the cars. On the uphill side the pavements can be made to accommodate bikes by taking the vertical edge lip off and make it mountable by bikes. This allows bikes to use the pavement when cars approach from behind...