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Hoopla!
Storing cycles at home is a conundrum, especially for people renting, those living in apartments or those with little space.I am not going to be able to solve everyone's storage problems, but I might...
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The Amazing Electricity Trickery: Recharged
Four years ago, I wrote about the Government's push for electric and so-called "ultra low emission vehicles" (ULEVs). There has been some media coverage of ULEV/ EV subsidy and so I thought it worth...
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A False Fine Fluster
Today, the BBC News website continued its slide into sensationalist tabloid pro-bad driver rhetoric with a piece on "lucrative" bus lane cameras.I almost hesitate about writing this post because the...
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Balancing Act
"We have to balance the needs of all road users" is an over-used phrase which can be found in consultation summaries and is often used by politicians to counter claims that active travel hasn't been...
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What makes a nice street?
I'm not going to beat about the bush, because you know what my opinion is already; the most important thing about nice streets is that they have very low motor traffic flows with access limited to...
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Safety At Street & Road Works
I finally got my street works "ticket" through the post after resitting the qualifications to supervise road works which has to be renewed every 5 years.I thought it might be useful to share a document...
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Drawing Parallels
As of March last year, we were given a new tool in the highway engineering box and we are starting to see them popping up - the parallel zebra crossing.The changes to the UK traffic signs rules; the...
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All Purpose Suburban Car Dependency Bingo
Active travel in the suburbs is a strange thing. It's a seemingly car dependent place, although there are of course contradictions and exceptions.There are those who are surgically attached to their...
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A Little Link
Earlier this week, I had a day off to go for a trundle around Central London. It was partly to just get out and get some fresh air (relatively) and partly to take some photos and video of interesting...
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Van Gogh Walk
Van Gogh Walk is a hidden gem of north Lambeth and after knowing about the street for a while, I have finally managed to have a look for myself.My stay was briefer even than Vincent's, but all the same...
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Stories From The School Run: How Can We Get Change?
This week we ran the little pop-up event "Stories from the school run" (or #schoolrunstories on Twitter) and as with last year, it was about people just trying to get their kids to school actively,...
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Missing The Point By A Mile
I'm often reading about how cycle tracks (and I mean tracks, not painted lanes) are empty off-peak and this is a reason why they shouldn't be provided. At best, this is crass ignorance and at worse a...
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Fire Engine vs Bollard: Who's Going to Win
Something a little different this week and despite the slightly tongue-in-cheek title of this post, there is an interesting story to tell.First, my thanks goes to the London Fire Brigade for trusting...
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Whataboutery!
Why is it hard to discuss active travel publicly without it descending into "whataboutery"; and by that I mean that despite rational attempts to construct a cogent argument in favour of prioritising...
View ArticleThe Red Bank Holiday Herring
We're about to have the perfect storm of a pretty good looking Bank Holiday weekend, and the usual predictions of record traffic.Apart from people wanting a couple of days away from the rat race (and...
View ArticleWhere Does Tiptoeing Get Us?
It's a scalable question I guess, but in applying it to streets for people I think it is something we should ask ourselves on a regular basis.As we move into summer we see plenty of campaigns to...
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The Real Wipeout 2097 Is Rather More Sedate
There's a cheeky little traffic-free path which has been recently opened in Lewisham which wasn't actually a walking or cycling project. Oh yes, and it has a passing resemblance to a 20 year old...
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Risk
People are poor judges of risk. This is being played out in the media following the horrific events they have been playing out to us over the last few weeks.We've had terrorist attacks in Manchester...
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#HertsRun Park 1: A Trip Down Memory Lane
A couple of Sundays back I took a ride back into my engineering past which started in Hatfield, Hertfordshire and ended at Stevenage (with a loop around the town).It was a sort of a London Cycle Safari...
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#HertsRun Part 2: Stevenage - Unfinished Business
In my last post, I recounted a recent cycling safari which started in Hatfield and I left you with as close to a cliffhanger as I can get with kerbs at the edge of Welwyn Garden City. This post...
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