I was very confused while looking at the images, this one in particular: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/~/article-4487592/index.html#i-4f...

"They [the cycleways] were rediscovered by a historian using Google Street View"

It is hard for me to image this to be anything else but a cycle lane. As a Dutch person, it is hilarious to me that it takes a historian to identify them. For comparison, this is what a cycle lane looks like in the Netherlands (and they are absolutely everywhere): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Vrijligg...

"At the time, the Ministry of Transport was working on plans to create a Dutch-inspired cycleways all over the country"