It's more complicated than that

A couple of weeks ago, I was in the City of London for an event, but I just had time to go and have a look at the St. Paul's gyratory project which has improved north-south cycling between London Wall and New Change via St. Martin's Le Grand. However, this post is not about the scheme or really about the design of the new floating bus stop on St. Martin's Le Grand. Sort of. I like this photograph from the site though. It pulls at the tension between traffic engineering and human behaviour, and also the misunderstanding people have about what is trying to be achieved and for who.Zebra crossings are not black and whiteMany people see the role of the zebra crossings sometimes used at floating bus stops being very much, well, a black and white thing. It's a zebra crossing and so those cycling must stop to let people cross. That's already wrong because pedestrian priority only exists when someone steps on the crossing. While stopping for people crossing might be good behaviour and a…