Protected cycle lane planned for Hackney road where riders are "tailgated aggressively" by drivers

I cycle on that road almost daily, but I wouldn't necessarily single out just that stretch of road.   Currently, the pitiful amount of segregated cycle paths on CS1 is a joke and there is far too much competition for road space with impatient drivers doing their rat runs.   CS1 is not much more than a re-badged quietway, and with all the motor traffic during rushhour it isn't quiet at all.  Perhaps that's why they stopped calling that.

An unusally brave move from a council to remove parking for a cycle lane (or even to remove parking at all). Probably needs a curb rather than armadillos, and good parking enforcement to stop the people who will still park in it.

why not simply ban parking completely and then ban motor vehicles from using it at all, ZERO cost infra solution which could and should be replicated in every town and city.

How can it be part of the Superhighway if there ain't nothing super about it?

Not sure how long "armadillos" would last,  a decent kerb would be better. But top marks for the non- motor centric thinking! 

Gosh! Too narrow because of private cars parked on both sides of the road and the proposed solution is to abolish parking on on side and narrow the street even more? Are the residents not up in arms of the proposed plan? "Where are we going to park our 3 family cars now?".

I do think that this is the solution to reclaiming neighbourhoods (at least a step in the right direction) and I hope that the residents embrace it but I somehow doubt that they will see the benefits.

So, how about the police sit in an umarked car and prosecute the drivers for dangerous driving?

This needs to be a default policy, applied to a minimum number of routes.

Relatively progressive boroughs should show others how it needs to be done.

Let the backward boroughs keep all the through traffic for themselves if they're so intent on placating the rat runner.

Once a sufficient number of schemes are up and running, demonstrating the results of a bit of awareness, intelligence and common sense, the motorphile boroughs will be shown up for their negligence and obstruction of justice.

Something like the experience of cycling from Camden's Tavistock Place across the border into the  congested wasteland and impossible labyrinth of one way rat runs that is the borough of Westminster.

Given the demographic of Stamford Hill it's quite amusing that there is a conflicted area called West Bank. 

It must have been their day off...

It is a welcome surprise to hear such logical comments from a council spokesperson.