Stratford Cycle Superhighway extension plans gets thumbs up from London Cycling Campaign (well, parts of it do)

I live cycle walk and drive in central London and for the life of me I cannot understand why we want these type of segregated cycle lanes (with the exception of busy junctions).

Can somebody please do an independent report on the accident ratio between popular roads for cyclists and quite ones as I'm a great believer in critical mass.
The bus stop solution looks great on paper but in reality I think it will be a disaster. So lets do a test stop, I suggest Brixton High St, Peckham High Rd or any really busy urban High St, lets CCTV it up from all angles and then as well as recording the info for collating purposes also allow live access to the images over the internet so the public can see how affective or not the stop is.
Any figures supplied by TFL or your local council really cannot be trusted unless backed up by video evidence and independent bodies doing the collating (bus use numbers in Clapham Old Town is a good example, google Save Clapham Old Town for more info on that).
I'm all for improvements especially at dangerous junctions, but as a cyclist in central London it's all about Critical mass and spending money on more traffic police and stricter enforcement of traffic law.
The more cyclists on the road, including cycle lanes that aren't physically segregated the more drivers become aware.

I can't think of a better way for the cycle lane to pass a buss stop. It would require cyclists to slow down if there are pedestrians getting on the bus, with the only other option being the lane going through the actual bus stop where cyclists would then have to look out for buses pulling in.
The cycle path will have to raise up to pavement level otherwise wheelchair users would struggle to get across it and onto the bus.
If these lanes are put it, cyclists not using them are likely to get abuse from drivers, so there will also have to be an easy way to exit the lane at junctions, otherwise if you are going in a different direction to the lane you wouldn't be able to get on it and would have to use the road. If it is wide enough for one cyclist to pass another then it would probably be safer and quicker than the road.

This is the best way to deal with a bus stop along a segregated cycle path.

Some of the current Cycle Superhighways just stop and have some cycle signs further out in the road round bus stops.
The way the cycle path is at road level should avoid most conflict with pedestrains.

There is a junction near me where to make the turn sharper (to stop cars taking it at speed) they put a segregated cycle lane in, creating a pedestrain island. This causes very few problems as the cycle lane is a road (rather than pavement level).

A few years ago we had speed calming measures installed beside a local school. These took the form of ramps in the road that came up to pavement height. Due to them forming a 'bridge' between the pavements on each side of the road, some pedestrians took this to be part of the pavement and assumed right of way, walking out into traffic as a result.

Also, if these lanes are as narrow as they would appear in the illustrations, there will be increased conflict between cyclists trying to pass each other and between those who choose not to use them and motorised traffic who will assume cyclist must use the facility.

Yes, the cycle path needs to be segregated after the bus stop. This is the usual arrangement in the Netherlands. But note how in the Dutch design the cycle track flows much better, with gradual curves, and doesn't have the ramps up to pavement level of the proposed London design.

In addition to pedestrian-cyclist conflict, it surely creates another conflict between busses moving off and cyclists attempting to rejoin the carriageway when the bypass ends.

Unless the cycle path remains segregated after the bus stop, in which case it doesn't matter.

I was initially sceptical about the bus passengers/cyclists sharing the same space, but after thinking about it I'm not sure.

If I was pootling along on the shopping bike I'd be on the cycle path and I'd just stop and ting-ting my bell at anyone loitering. I don't tend to be in a hurry when I'm on the shopper. If I was on the road bike I'd be on the road in the primary position or filtering through traffic - not using the lane.

those bus stops look likely to cause a lot of conflict between pedestrians and cyclists. Who has right of way? Will pedestrians care if it isn't them? Will they even notice that they're wondering across a cycle lane? Accident waiting to happen