London centric, they talk about cycle super highways and quietways. Where other than that London have such things?
Cycle superhighways are AFAIK only in London (perhaps also Manchester?)
AIUI London are abandoning the 'superhighway' branding, on the basis that it marks the route out as something special (perhaps infested with speeding lycra louts), rather than infrastructure that should exist on every major road.
Birmingham have called their equivalents "high quality cycle routes". The jury's still out pending completion - they've approached them with the right design objectives, but it remains to be seen whether they're made too many compromises or hobbled them with traffic light timings, but they're certainly a step up from the magic paint they've used previously.
AIUI the Manchester ones are called "Beelines".
Quietway name and concept are more widespread. Certainly we've had some in Bristol for ten years or so. I think the Quietway name was only recently adopted here, previously they were known as Greenways and Link routes (still are, I'd say, in general terms) but the routes were here already.
To me 'greenway' means an off-road shared path. Something like a reclaimed railway path, a hardpack trail through a flood plain, or that one that follows the Northern Outfall Sewer from Stratford to Becton (known as "The Greenway").
Birmingham had a go at quietways a few years ago. Someone sat down with a map and drew some lines along minor roads, with no consideration for which were notorious rat-runs
[1], or indeed contours. These were marked with bicycle symbols on the tarmac, which everyone ignores.
They've been such an embarrassment I can't find any official reference to them to work out whether they used 'quietway' branding or something else. Ah, Pushbikes have it:
http://www.pushbikes.org.uk/blog/bit-paint-road-not-cycle-infrastructureThey were 'parallel routes' apparently. The example local to me - Edgbaston Park Road
[2] - is hilariously terrible: Steep gradients, blind corners, potholes, pinch points, fast motor traffic.
That's a good example of the kind of thing they didn't look at all. An interurban or rural route.
Which are some of best bits of the NCN, albeit mostly for leisure cyclists.
[1] As a first-order approximation, every minor road in the Wet Midlands Connurbation is a rat-run.
[2] A road so poorly suited for cycling that its use as part of the SkyRide route some years ago resulted in multiple pile-ups.