[Tagging] Tagging highway=cycleway without explicit knowledge of the law?

[Dave F.]

Liz wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Dave F. wrote:
>   
>>> a cycleway is a way which is free of bicycle obstructions and that is not
>>> implicit in the path at all.
>>>       
>> I disagree. Where a cycleway crosses a vehicular road I would expect to
>> see cycle barriers to either slow down or preferably dismount.
>> I would consider it badly designed if it was missing theses.
>>     
>
> have you managed to find reference material for that?
> I'm looking for design standards for cycleways - so far I haven't got very far 
> at all
I was writing from a personal point of view.

For UK:
http://www.sustrans.org.uk/resources/technical-guidelines