My response was based as someone who commutes daily from Bevendean to the City centre leaving around 7-7:30 generally returning during rush hour aswell.
as an example cycling past preston barracks, busses and taxis come by very close, and travel much faster than traffic used to [IMO well above the 30MPH limit]. Also cycling 'behind' the bus stops many people walk straight off the bus and step out into the cycle lanes without looking. A...
It makes the journey around Vogue Gyratory [northbound] safer but as for the rest of it I never had any issues before, and personally I don't find the cycle lanes are any safer /easier to use now.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14252936.Award_winning_road_scheme_has_hundreds_of_drivers_diverting_and_fails_to_combat_air_pollution/?ref=mr&lp=3
As a bus user along the route my opinion is the times have got worse if anything. Getting from Elm Grove to the bus garage now seems to take much...
Took around 15 mins to drive down Combe road today. All traffic Turning left at the bottom was in a que which backed up the road. No one was able to turn right without driving on the wrong side of Combe road down from around Dewe road to the bottom. Got no evidence to back it up but cannot see...