Does anyone if it's Sustrans or Local Authority that is funding the Great Wall of China being constructed at the end of the cycle path to nowhere on Silver St.

A very simple google search would provide you with the answer: http://tinyurl.com/44oj48n

Ignore him Chutzpah84. Just another whinging petrol junkie who is incapable of recognising anything beyond the end of his overpriced tin can and probably enjoys the traffic congestion, obesity and heart disease that his car dependent lifestyle generates.
One wonders if he is even capable of functioning further than a 25 yard radius of his fossil fuelled life support system.

@tax9999: know nothing about "eco-warriors". But recognise the need for safe streets, liveable neighbourhoods and towns geared for people not machines. All that has been stolen from us by the "Great Car Infestation" as Dervla Murphy describes it.

Surely if we live in a democratic society we should give equal, not more priority to pedestrians and bicycles the owners of whom, by the way, contribute nothing to highway maintenance

I would suggest that Enrique Peñalosa is implying that pedestrian and bicycle priorities should be *increased* from their current low level; and car priority reduced to match.
As Chutzpah84 suggests, bicycles are not the only type of vehicle that is Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) exempt, or zero rated. It's a tax on cars, not roads. For instance, the DirectGov website will show you a list of 55 models of motor vehicle in VED Band A. Zero rated; £0, zilch, nada. The ironically titled ipayroadtax web sited also lists the following types of vehicle which are tax exempt or zero rated: Electric vehicles, cars built before 1973, vehicles belonging to ex-soldiers in receipt of war pensioners' mobility supplement, disabled drivers, American soldiers operating in Britain and running their own imported cars, police cars, fire-engines, ambulances and other health-service vehicles, road construction vehicles, Crown vehicles (that's right - the Queen doesn't pay VED, she being the only person who might reasonably claim to "own the roads"), Government Car and Despatch Agency (that's Ministerial Cars, and the like), agricultural vehicles. All this is by the by, as not one penny of what ignorant and ill informed people claim to be "road tax" is ring-fenced for exclusive highway maintenance use. There was such a tax that existed between 1909-1936, but no more. Local authorities and their predecessors have been responsible for highway maintenance for centuries. Roads were maintained in well enough condition for the early bicycles to be used for decades before the first cars - the old solid tyred penny farthings would make pretty poor mountain bikes. And of course, the roads had to be fit for accommodating the early cars, otherwise there wouldn't have been any point in inventing the damned things in the first place. So, my dear Ellwoodjames, go away and get yourself better informed before spouting off more nonsense.

Actually I think the Great Wall is rather attractive! Having lived near a river and seen the beauty and effect of these 'caged stones' I'm all for it. Mind you... I've often thought I'd sneak in the wee hours of the night and liberate a few stones....but I now have no need for them, but I do think it looks looks good.