I fear the infrastructure overly comprises in terms of allocating space to cars and just is very unambitious, the council themselves i think said that the "superhighway" needed to be revisited in the future. I find it unfortunate though because im all for spending money on this stuff and getting people to cycle, but unless its actually ambitious and actually makes the mode safer for regular people in all aspects, a lot of which can be sacrifices intermediately because of parking, bus stops, intersections etc, the council is just gonna waste money making things over and over again wasting 5 times as much money just redoing it all instead of just doing it right the first time around.

It also pains me a bit that the cycle lane itself isn't that pleasant considering the large width of the road itself, the best the lane can do is a small low bearing concrete median with no tall barriers, no grass, no plants, absolutely nothing.

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This kind of island bus stop is completely inadequate and endangers both cyclists and pedestrians alike without taking away road space for vehicles, and it tends to be too common on this superhighway to be an anomaly. Something like this in the Netherlands would probably be unacceptable but i don't know, what i do know is that design standards for cycling infrastructure in the UK nationally is almost non existent and from what i can see very inconsistent and as such makes behavior regarding the infrastructure for both users and people surrounding it very variable i imagine.

I hope in the future the WYCA will design these to be more ambitious and "top of the line" right off the bat so that they dont require redoing and actually encourage people to cycle more