Great Western Coffee Shop

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52146227

Can't see it happen here, unfortunately.

As Cycling UK point out there is a slight contradiction between DfTs Decarbonisation document and the Chancellor promising £27 billion for roads. https://www.cyclinguk.org/blog/will-transport-become-decarbonised (https://www.cyclinguk.org/blog/will-transport-become-decarbonised)

Dunno. They're doing it in New York...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-bike-commute.html

Love to see it happen.

There are rumblings in the undergrowth:
Hackney council https://road.cc/content/news/emergency-measures-stop-rat-running-drivers-announced-272655 (https://road.cc/content/news/emergency-measures-stop-rat-running-drivers-announced-272655)
Brighton https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18375729.coronavirus-brighton-roads-switch-cycle-lanes/ (https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18375729.coronavirus-brighton-roads-switch-cycle-lanes/)

But probably not TfL https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/world-cities-turn-their-streets-over-to-walkers-and-cyclists (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/world-cities-turn-their-streets-over-to-walkers-and-cyclists)

Three weeks to make a decision???

Councils are even more strapped for cash than before, so unless money is found from elsewhere, it won't happen here. There is political will in some quarters for this sort of action, and with a new chancellor in position, with the right sort of lobbying at a time like this, one can but hope...

CyclingUK, along with Brompton Bicycle, British Cycling, London Cycling Campaign, the Bicycle Association, Sustrans, The Ramblers and the Director of Public Health, Barts Health NHS Trust, are asking:
https://www.cyclinguk.org/news/joint-call-more-space-cycling-during-virus (https://www.cyclinguk.org/news/joint-call-more-space-cycling-during-virus)
I am not convinced they will be lucky, but if you don't ask?

And for Brighton don't just talk, do it!
https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2020/04/its-least-they-could-do.html (https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2020/04/its-least-they-could-do.html)
not exactly earth shattering but proves it is possible. Just don't expect Bournemouth to follow any time soon.

This morning I did a roundabout walk to get a newspaper and milk. Very few people out and about, mostly joggers and cyclists. Lots of good will to and from other walkers. I was walking down one pavement when I saw one group of five or six coming towards, with one guy out in the road making hand gestures. I did wonder if he was signalling to me, but he seemed to be demonstrating a safe distance to his companions. I went out into the road, he made no move to move in for me, then I realised the group probably comprised neighbours who were socially-distancing. I moved out into the centre of the road to safely pass by them all.

No problem, but I did wonder how a group of that size would have manoeuvered itself to accommodate, say, a pram; and, as more traffic returns, how dangerous it may become for pedestrians to take to the roads.

Can't always say they don't listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52353942 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52353942)

Great in theory, but there will be a need to maintain vehicular access to properties, although probably it would still reduce the number of vehicles

Certainly with the 'mini-Holland' schemes (a name I don't like but it seems to have stuck) implemented over the last couple of years in various places, access is never cut off. Various streets become dead ends to cars but maintain through movement on foot or bike and measures are implemented to reduce speeds, encourage other road uses and funnel main road traffic on to main roads.