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Crash Friendly
We are concerned that nobody is hurt on our streets and roads as a result of a mistake by them or others and this underpins a better approach to highway design. Of course, when someone gets it wrong,...
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On The Cheap
Building cycling infrastructure is often touted as an expensive thing to do, but this would mainly apply to street retrofits where a significant part of the costs are sunk into undoing layouts which...
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Traffic Signal Pie: Partially Protected Turns
There was a photo of a drawing doing the rounds earlier this week on Twitter showing a crossroads in Cambridge where there was a debate about how to fit cycling into a situation where the side roads...
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Traffic Signal Pie: More Partially Protected Turns
So last week, I looked at 'partially protected' turns at a crossroads and this week, I thought it might be helpful to look at a T-junction variant.The reason I looked at the crossroads was that on the...
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Sign Make It Better: Duke Street, Chelmsford
I generally have little sympathy for people who are 'caught out' at 'point' restrictions because on the whole they are laid out logically and to miss the restrictions takes quite a lot of...
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Power to the Little Wheels
With the continued obsession with getting people out of their fossil-fuelled cars and into electric cars, we continue to ignore the short trips that people make every day with perhaps too much focus on...
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Logical Logistics
As most people cannot grow all of their own food and make everything they need to go about their daily lives, we still need to deliver 'stuff'. Back in the old days, we might have used a horse and...
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Dual Carriageway Terror
While I was out and about in the week, I happened to be cycling along a dual carriageway (on the path because I didn't want to become innovative jam) when I spied a gap in the central reservation...
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How To Become A Highway Engineer
It's an interesting question for me because I didn't plan to become a highway engineer, it sort of happened; but, for what it's worth, here's how I did it because there are so many different paths you...
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A Curious Kerb Catch
I happened to be on Google Streetview earlier in the week undertaking a virtual site visit (a wonderful tool to use from the comfort of the office) where I came across an interesting little granite...
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Controlling Parking Over An Area
I suppose this is a bit of a recap this week as I have covered parking control before, but I am currently doing some research for another design guide and I though it might be helpful to group some...
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ALARM 2019
I wouldn't say it's a tradition, but I have kept an eye on the annual Asphalt Industry Alliance Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance Survey (ALARM).For those who have missed the survey before, it's...
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Back to Traffex
This week, I made a return visit to the biennial highways industry trade show, Traffex, which for someone like me is always a geek out.In previous years, the show had a distinct split between the...
View ArticleFootway Parking Ban Comes A Little Closer
I was writing this to be an article for Highways Magazine except I realised that I had covered the subject only in September. Not wishing to waste my effort, I've posted it here because my last rant...
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Gap In The Hump
Those who have followed this blog for any length of time will know that I am a fan of the little design details which make all the difference.This week, I want to share a little road hump layout which...
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#LDNCycleSafari: Peace & Quiet In Francis Road
The London Cycle Safari rode again yesterday (28th April 2019) and we packed in so much, it's going to span a few posts. This week, I am going to start with something astonishing and that's the...
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#LDNCycle Safari: Hidden Gems In The Olympic Park
I'm not going to mince my words, much of the Olympic Park in Stratford is awful and many of the new roads and streets are terrible for walking and cycling. But, I'm going to be positive and concentrate...
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A Stratford Safari: Redux
Back in September last year, I reported on the scheme which was transforming Stratford's town centre by removing an old gyratory system. So how is it looking now it's finished?My previous post covered...
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Practical Loading
The need for business loading is often cited as a reason not to build cycle tracks, but it's a spurious argument. Businesses absolutely need to move goods around to function and in fact, when we...
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School's Out
It's the school holidays and so it might be worth having a whinge about the obsession that they have with two things we can add to our streets which don't really have much of an impact.As I near the...
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