Am 10.02.2020 um 17:00 schrieb Andre Jute:
On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 2:42:39 PM UTC, sms wrote:

That seems fantastically unlikely to me, given that the cycle paths, in
the main, run alongside dual carriageways, often those with 70 mph speed
limits.

There are few main dual carraigeways in MK: A5, A515, Standing Way, V6
Grafton Street, V8 Marlbrgough Street.

There are many more bike paths parallel to roads, like H4 Dansteed Way,
V7 Saxon sTreet in North MK, and there are plenty of bike paths
crisscorssing through the residential areas.

To pretend that people are just as likely to cycle on these
kinds of roads as they would be on the cycle paths that run alongside
them – cycle paths that, let’s remember, are claimed to be as good as
anything in the Netherlands – stretches credibility to breaking point."

From
https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/they-built-it-and-they-didnt-come-the-lesson-of-milton-keynes/.

Bicycles aren't allowed on the 70mph dual carriageways of precisely the reason you imply, that it would be a massacre of cyclists.

Last time I was there, I did not see any signs forbidding me from
cycling there. I have personally cycled on the 70 mph A46 between
Coventry and Warwick (a bit north of MK) a few dozend times in the 1990's.