[Talk-GB] Advice on footpaths - when should they be separate, when not?

[Stuart Reynolds]

Looking for some advice in Bletchley, specifically, but to answer a more general point about footpaths.

Please look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.99530/-0.73751

Bletchley Rail Station sits in the middle, and to the west is the main road, which is Sherwood Drive. There is also a footpath shown coming from the station and along the eastern side of Sherwood Drive, but not on the western side.

This feels very wrong to me on a number of levels. For starters, the footpath doesn’t connect to Sherwood Drive except at the bottom, so it isn’t apparent that you can cross the road to go along Selwyn Grove, for example. Also, there is no footpath going north, nor is there a footpath on the western side of Sherwood Drive, despite it being quite clearly there on Streetview. In addition, Sherwood Drive already has the tag Sidewalk=both which rather makes the footpath redundant, doesn’t it?

My inclination would be to rip out the footpath and rely on the sidewalk tag, except that seems extreme and it isn’t wrong per se.

So what is the guidance here? Ought the road have a distinct footpath both sides? Or not footpath, and use the tags on the road, or just connecting spurs from the footpath to the road at key points (e.g. opposite Selwyn Grove), or what…?

Thanks
Stuart


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Stuart Reynolds
for traveline south east & anglia




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