Ms Anne Graham:

We have looked at this in great detail. We would not invest in the level of infrastructure or put something forward for planning unless we considered that this was the only solution available currently. If we place the cycle track up against where people live, one has a cycle track adjacent to where people might be accessing their drive or coming out in their car, and that is a safety risk. If it is on the outside - the furthest away from the road - then one has the space for the pedestrian adjacent to the bus stop. What we have done is put the pedestrian on the left-hand side, the cycle lane in between and then the bus stop. The bus stop has to be adjacent to the road for passengers to be able to board the bus. It is not easy to provide a solution when there are many different users at a particular location and we are trying to provide a safe solution for all of those users. As I said, we have adapted our design to ensure that the cyclist has to yield at those particular floating bus stops if there is somebody crossing to that space. We have put rumble strips in place. It will be ramped. There will be signals in place in some locations so that cyclists will have to yield and stop if somebody is crossing.