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Risky Business
Danger is all around us, but what is it really and how can we objectively judge whether or not it's significant?Welcome to the word of risk assessment. It's probably a term you've often heard being...
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A Scandinavian Safari: Part 1 - Fabulous Fanø
So, I'm back from my family holiday on the other side of the North Sea, but I did find some time to look at infrastructure (between the ice-creams and travelling).My blog posts about the Netherlands...
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A Scandinavian Safari: Part 2 - Swedish SuDS & Silence
Last week was a little introduction to a series of posts about my summer adventures in (part) of Scandinavia. This week, we head 400km east to Malmö, Sweden's third largest city.There's a fair bit...
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A Scandinavian Safari: Part 3 - Malmö - Around The Suburbs
In this week's blog, I take a look at life away from the centre of Malmö out in the suburbs. It's always interesting to see what is going on away from the more famous parts of a city after all!Now I...
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A Scandinavian Safari: Part 4 - Malmö - Slicker City
After travelling through the suburbs of Malmö in by last post, this week, I'm hitting the city itself to look at what has been deployed to make the city people-friendly.Feeding the the developments...
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A Stratford Safari
A break from Scandinavia this week to have a look at a scheme shaping up in Stratford, East London. The Stratford Gyratory Scheme seeks to transform the town centre's streets and the cycling provision...
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A Scandinavian Safari: Part 5 - Copenhagen - Suburbs to City
This week, I'm back in Scandinavia with a look at the city of Copenhagen. As with Malmö, I ended up cycling into the city from the suburbs which gave me a chance to experience a wide range of design...
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Invest £3 Billion
Yesterday, I joined the Stop Killing Cyclists'Pedal on Parliament' and Funeral for the Unknown Cyclist.The ride had two simple messages - for the investment of £3 billion per year in cycling and the...
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A Scandinavian Safari: Part 6 - Copenhagen - Around The City
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my trip from the suburbs of Copenhagen. This week, I pick up on some of what I saw around the city centre.Copenhagen has lots of bridges - having islands and...
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Priorities - Who Is The Street For At Stoke Newington?
Transport for London is currently consulting on its plans, apparently working with the London Borough of Hackney, to "transform Stoke Newington gyratory into a place for people." Except it won't be a...
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A Scandinavian Safari: Part 7 - Bikes, Lights & Little Trucks
This week, I'll bring my Scandinavian Safari series to a close with a blog post about some of the other things I saw on my trip this summer which didn't quite fit the rest of the posts.Not all of the...
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We Want Kerbs, Not Technology.
There must be money to be made of out technology for use on our streets or for users of our streets otherwise people wouldn't keep pushing it.There's always a new and better design for indicators for...
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Adoption, Dedication & Use
How do streets, or more specifically - highways, come into existence? Who maintains them? And, what say does the public have? This week's post is a brief run around the law.By far the easiest way to...
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School Streets - The Basics
I'll let you into a little secret. Although the idea of 'school streets' seems radical, the legislation allowing us to deliver them has been around for decades.The term 'school street' is not some kind...
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What Mode of Transport Would a Strawman Use?
At least in London, we've just had the annual event whereby cabbies tell cyclists that you can't shift 20 tonnes of concrete by bike and cyclists tell cabbies that can't shift 20 tonnes of concrete by...
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Route Cause
Because the UK lags so far behind other countries in rolling out road and street upgrades that makes cycling an inclusive form of transport, we're often left with 'routes' being planned and then...
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Quantum Cycling Design
In many parts of the UK, we provide for cycling in a way which seems to spontaneously switch from treating the mode like driving and walking. In some cases, it depends on the position of the...
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Bob Cratchit was working late in the office again; the people in the other teams had gone to the pub for a pre-Christmas drink. The junction design he was working on was an impossible task because he...
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The Predictable & Lazy End Of Year Roundup: 2018
As predictable as night follow day, here is my personal round up of 2018, in which I was JanuaryMy first post of the year wondered why high profile "streets" schemes always ignored the wider network...
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Cycle Tracks Should Be Laid In Red Asphalt
Ever since my first visit to the Netherlands in the summer of 2015, I have been obsessed with the use of red asphalt for cycle tracks (OK, the Dutch do design quite well generally).The main reasons are...
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