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Congestion
The UK needs to have a grown up conversation about traffic congestion and the issues which stem from it.Coming home from work on Thursday, the dual carriageway was its usual evening crawl;It is often...
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You Get Who You Design For
It is a simple enough concept "you get who you design for", but it is utterly lost on many designers and the public alike.The media and especially social media is adept at moaning about cyclists not...
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15 metres
This week, I have been lucky enough to have had time to think about how I would redesign a secondary type of street and it's adjacent residential areas.It's a real project which I have no idea where it...
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Flailing Graying's Unavailing Wailing
It has always been the job of the transport secretary to announce daft ideas which have no basis in reality and this week, Chris Graying continued the tradition.It was reported that Grayling wants...
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London CS6 and CS3 Update - It's All In the Detail
It is very easy to turn up to someone else's job and pick holes in it, especially where you don't know the design process which led to the end product. However, when details are continually done badly,...
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The Long Walk Home
It's Living Streets' National Walking Month and to celebrate, I took a walk home from work.As most following this blog will know, my usual commute is by cycle and at around 3.5 miles, it's a perfect...
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Infrastructure Creates Culture
We often hear about cycling culture which in itself sets up the mode as something other people do, yet the tenuous idea still exists.This subject has been written about by others and I'm not even sure...
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Silvertown: Another Road To Nowhere?
The Mayor of London often talks about the challenges the Capital faces with air pollution and he backs a £1b tunnel in East London. In this week's guest blog post the Silvertown Mole goes digging in...
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When You Are Right, It Is Easy To Be Consistent
Build cycle tracks and pedestrian crossings on main roads. Filter through traffic from residential streets. Default urban speed limit of 20mph. Default rural speed limit of 40mph. Pursue a policy of...
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London Isn't Amsterdam
With apologies to the rest of the UK, a commonly-heard wheeze from the dinosaurs who cannot bear the thought of us developing cycling networks is the weary "but London isn't Amsterdam" cliché.In more...
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The Highway Code Isn't Fit For Purpose
What is the point of the Highway Code? It seems to me that the only people who read it are those who want to point out how people are wrong in an argument about some obscure detail to win an...
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Taking Candy From A Baby.
Today we see an announcement in the media that the UK Government is moving into the second phase of it's 'Childhood Obesity Plan' with a proposed ban of sweets at supermarket checkouts.The announcement...
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Sunny Salford SuDS: The Cycling Embassy of Great Britain's AGM 2018 (Part 1)
I was pleased to be able to attend the CEoGB's AGM which took place over the weekend just gone in Greater Manchester. This is the first of three posts which will explain some of what we saw.The event...
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All Roads Lead To Manchester: The Cycling Embassy of Great Britain's AGM 2018...
In this week's post, I continue my report from the recent Cycling Embassy of Great Britain's AGM in Manchester.Last week, I looked at some of the ongoing work in Salford and this week's post, I take a...
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Filtering The City : The Cycling Embassy of Great Britain's AGM 2018 (Part 3)
In this week's post, I conclude my recent Mancunian adventure with the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain's AGM. I take a little look at some of the other interesting stuff which caught my eye.For my...
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The UK has a fragmented approach to spatial planning which can mean that there is a disconnect between the planning process and impacts on the management of highway networks.As you'll know, I have gone...
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Ride London Freecycle: We Were Lucky With The Weather Edition
So today saw the annual Ride London Freecycle event in central London with it's 8 miles of roads open to cycle traffic and as with previous years, there were some slight tweaks to the route and I...
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300th Blog Post: So Where Next?
Rather astonishingly, this is my 300th post to this blog which I started in November 2012 and what a journey I have been on (goodness knows how many words I have written).In my very first post, I asked...
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Ramps and Steps
Inclusive design is about more than just giving people options, it's about enabling people to take the same options as everyone else. How we deal with changes in level is perhaps one area which shows...
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On Soft Ground
Building paths is no different to building motorways, it's just the order of magnitude which is different.Motorway building attempts to be as economic as possible (relatively speaking) and this is very...
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