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Cycling In The UK's Motor City - The Coundon Cycleway
At the end of September last year, I headed to Coventry, the UK's motor city to have a look at a project I had been following for some time - the Coundon Cycleway.The story for me starts back in the...
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Cycle Gates - A Useful Tool
There are lots of tools out there which we can use to make cycling safer and while I can understand that people would love to transform their towns overnight, I'm afraid that we will often have to go...
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: Redux Part 4 - Bendy Hamburger...
I obviously enjoy cycling in The Netherlands, but it is always worth getting back on foot to gain other perspectives and in this post, I report on a junction in Leiden that I walked around.My last two...
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Cycle Streets
I have spoken about cycle streets at the Active Travel Cafe, but it's a subject I think is worth exploring long hand in a blog post.In fact, there are quite a few subjects I have spoken about there...
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A Seaside Safari: Clacton-on-Sea to Jaywick Sands
I have a list of things to go and have a look at, and in April, I added the new Clacton-on-Sea to Jaywick Sands path to that list after seeing Danny Williams tweet about it. It didn't stay on my list...
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SuDS In The City: Esther Road, Leytonstone
In the southeast corner of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, a little project is nearing completion which is designed to alleviate a local flooding problem.Esther Road is an unremarkable street in...
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Battersea Bridge: What Can Be Done Quickly
Bridges are often contested spaces simply because they very rarely contribute to dense street networks and as a result, they funnel users to specific points which might be off their general desire...
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Railton Revisited
Just over a two years ago, I paid a visit to the Railton Low Traffic Neighbourhood, to the southeast of Brixton town centre in south London. I revisited because I had seen photos on social media of the...
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Voorrangsplein! Part 3
One of the things that constantly impresses me about Dutch highway engineering is that they are not afraid to experiment and improve.I was lucky enough to visit the Netherlands again a few weeks ago...
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The New Adventures of Monsieur Nugget de Poulet
Those following me on social media will know that I acquired a tandem cycle a couple of months back and as with my cargotrike, it has further sharpened my appreciation for how streets designs help and...
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Taking The Rough With The Smooth
The asphalt fairies have been out round my way and it gave me an opportunity to have a look at what they were up to a few nights ago.The road in question is a 50mph trunk road which cuts through the...
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The Non-story of 20mph Enforcement In London
A few weeks ago, Times consumer affairs correspondent Andrew Ellson authored an article on 20mph speed enforcement in which he took some umbrage at how London's Metropolitan Police deals with enforcing...
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Go Dutch 2024 - Part 1: The Hovenring
My latest trip to the Netherlands took me to Eindhoven and so I simply had to go and have a look at the Hovenring, an often celebrated piece of cycling infrastructure.The trip to the Hovenring was on...
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Go Dutch 2024 - Part 2: The Double Floating Bus Stop
I like collecting traffic engineering curiosities and the Netherlands can always be relied on for providing them; so after refuelling near the Hovenring, we headed into the edge of Veldhoven to tick...
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Go Dutch 2024 - Part 3: Football And Fietsers
Ostensibly, my trips to the Netherlands are meant to be holidays, but of course, it's impossible to switch off completely and besides, travelling is about finding out about how other people live isn't...
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Go Dutch 2024 - Part 4: Intercity
When I visit the Netherlands, one of the things I enjoy doing is cycling between towns and cities because it is a great way to experience just how the cycle network operates separately to the motoring...
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A Tale Of Two Roundabouts
This post comes from London where two roundabouts have been redesigned to add protected cycling space.The first is the Old Street junction which is right on the border of the boroughs of Hackney and...
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Booking Time & Space
There's very little to innovate in (motor) vehicle parking management and so it's nice to be able to report on something which is both simple and clever at the same time.I found myself with a bit of...
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A Tram To Trafford
Earlier this week I was in Manchester for a conference. I didn't have time for a proper look around at what's new, but I did manage to jump on a tram to Stretford before it got dark on the day I...
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Not Invented In Norwich
A couple of weeks back I had the afternoon off and jumped on a train to Norwich to give a talk at the Norwich Cycling Campaign's AGM called "Not Invented Here". At some point, I will produce a video of...
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Stratford Streets
Boxing Day called for a little bit of fresh air and with the Elizabeth Line closed, I took my folding bike out for a trip to Stratford (East London) via the District Line for a little post-Christmas...
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Floating Bus Stops: Redux
I write this with a deep sigh. Not because it's an unimportant subject, it's just that it comes up every so often and I need to remind people that floating bus stops are not the starting position, they...
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Bouncing Around Bournemouth
At the end of March, I visited Bournemouth where I gave a talk at the BCP Council Transport Conference called "Movement, Place, Choice & Space" which I have written about on my business blog over...
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: Spring 2025 Part 1
At the beginning of April, I was fortunate to be able to make another trip to the Netherlands, my ninth since 2015, and this will be the first of a few posts talking about what I saw.I am of course...
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The Lonely Walk
May is National Walking Month and this year I decided to go for a long and lonely walk which, quite frankly, I hated.Last year, I walked from the boundary of London just beyond Junction 28 of the M25...
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