[Talk-GB] Changing "stub" cycleways to pavements

[Mark Goodge]

On 15/02/2022 01:39, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:

> I believe your edits are incorrect & you're misinterpreting road signs. 
> They're often placed ahead the location they're referring to give road 
> users time to interpret the sign & adjust their behavior appropriately.

In this case, though, it's not just the signs. There's also a tactile 
surface on the pavement which appears to have no other purpose than 
indicating the limit of the shared use section (since it doesn't 
coincide with a crossing point, but does coincide with the signs). So it 
does seem pretty clear, on the ground, that the signs are positioned at 
the point where the highway authority considers the shared use section 
to start.

Having said that, that does seem a somewhat odd design choice, since 
there's no practical reason for a cyclist to use that section. There's 
no obvious reason why the boundary markers (the signs and the tactile 
surface) are located there rather than at the junction with the Greenway 
heading north and the unnamed road heading south. So it's probably not 
particularly helpful to map users to tag those short sections as shared 
use, even though, legally, they almost certainly are.

Mark