How to develop a Cycle Network Tube Map

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1. Developing A Network Quality Map
2. Objectives • Audit of current network providing “ground truth” • Enable a vision of the future • Make public and council aware of problems • Facilitate council strategic planning • Enable Councillors to act • Help people get around
3. Highlight problems through the Map Legend • Nodes = Inclusive cycling not possible • Nodes = Highlight communities and desire lines • Walking Link = Identify upgrade needed • Route colours + Schools = Safe cycling needed. • Educational Sites 11+ = Kids could be cycling to school from communities if safe routes provided. • Elevation = Create good networks at the same elevation. • Bike Hire = Need for more hire stations linked to bus routes • Highlight Hospitals and Railway Stations • Colour Blind Safe • Simple message “Turn the map blue!”
4. Share Share Share • Creative Commons BY • Ensures as wide a usage as possible. • Allows councils and other organisations to use as they wish and EDIT as they wish.
5. Street/Route Names • Helps people orientate themselves. • Helps people find new routes. • Gives Councillors ownership of a route.
6. Node or Hub? • Node when simple connection and logical end point. • Hub when too many routes make map complex. • Hub when area is large (e.g. large parks)
7. Distance Irrelevant • Do not focus on distance. • Guildhall to Pulteney Bridge 50m • Widcombe to Pulteney Bridge 1200m
8. Direction important • Make sure things are on the “right” side of the road. • Nodes/Hubs should be in that “general direction” • Keep angles at 45 degrees.
9. Plan wisely • Google Draw & draw.io allow EASY online collaboration • PDF export is vector pdf and scales to A0! • You will run out of space. • Make page A2 size at least. • Use different size fonts as needed. • For icons use PNG as it scales.
10. Step 1: Agree your legend • Is height important? Delete if not. • What facilities do you want to highlight? Avoid cluttering the map. • What is your message?
11. Step 2: Identify Destinations
12. Step 3: Add destinations • Copy the Bath map https:// goo.gl/vsqXIx or use the template https://goo.gl/ mheUGs • Accuracy initially not important. It will take days of tweaking. • Remember hubs solve dense connection issues. • Use polygon lines to ‘fix’ awkward angles. • Get to know your drawing tool.
13. Step 4: Add schools, stations, hospitals, and bike stations. • Less is more. • Yes add primary schools if you want, but it’s more important to identify schools where kids can independently travel to. • Watch out for people with their own agendas (e.g. public toilet locations). Focus on your message. • CC-BY allows people with own agendas to copy map and do as they wish ;)
14. Step 5: Add route names • Adding names helps you place nodes and hubs correctly on the map. • Helps people get around. • Helps others find inaccuracies
15. Step 6: Get eyes on it
16. Step 6.1: Engagement • Share your evolving map with ALL your Councillors • Share and talk with the public • Ask council officers for information • Ask people in your campaign group • Print and distribute around your city • Fix issue fast and don’t be afraid to break it.
17. Successes • Council are using it as part of strategy planning and engagement • Working with Canal and River Trust to develop one for their towpath network to enable better strategic planning • Bath (DONE) & North East Somerset (NEXT) • 2017 Map print run planned sponsored by Local Bike Shops • Key messages are getting through! • Inclusive cycling • Safe routes to schools
18. Focus on a message
19. Target your councillors