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A-Road Engineering
I am probably stating the bleeding obvious, but the type of highway design one sees on trunk roads has no business going anywhere near a town centre.For some reason, though, we see high-speed layouts...
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Judd Street & Midland Road
Between helping out with design workshops at the London Cycling Campaign's "Campaigner's Conference" yesterday, I had time to nip out to look at the newly remodelled junction of Euston Road/ Judd...
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Traffic Signal Pie: The Long Wait
So this week, I was inspired by Brian Deegan to go and time how long it took to get a green man/ cycle at a 2-stage toucan crossing I use twice a day.To be honest, it wasn't quite as bad as it might...
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Open The Rotherhithe Tunnel To People
It's a London-centric post this week given the continuing controversy about Thames Crossings in East London.We have had Sadiq Khan clash with Caroline Russell who asked the Mayor on Thursday why he is...
View ArticleMy Continuing Adventures In Time & Space
Where did the last 15 years go? It's a question which has been playing on my mind a great deal for the last few months and now I am at the end of an event I have been waiting a long time for.Friday was...
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Rural Transport - Harwich vs Hulst
Whilst driving between Clacton-on-Sea and Harwich yesterday, I was reminded how badly let down our rural communities are when it comes to transport. In contrast with many parts of the UK I have to...
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CROW Flow
For the first time in a very long time, I have been lucky enough to have had the chance to read lots of guidance and to catch up a little on designing for cycling.This post was going to be a bit of a...
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Cycling Embassy of Great Britain AGM 2019: The Journey Is Starting In Cardiff...
Last week's blog post didn't get written because I had the pleasure of attending the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain's AGM. This year, we were in Cardiff.What this means is there will be a double...
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Cycling Embassy of Great Britain AGM 2019: The Journey Is Starting In Cardiff...
Earlier this week, I caught up on last week's blog post with my first report from last weekend's Cycling Embassy of Great Britain's AGM in Cardiff (with me so far?) This week, I continue with a look at...
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Cycling Embassy of Great Britain AGM 2019: The Journey Is Starting In Cardiff...
This week's post is my third and final from the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain's AGM in Cardiff. You can read part 1 here and part 2 here.We've seen some physical infrastructure being delivered over...
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Bridging The Gap
Whether it is a natural feature or a man-made barrier, we sometimes need to build bridges to get our cycle routes across them.Now, I am not talking about crossing a road at surface level here, I am...
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#LDNCycleSafari - Quietway 14
Even as I write this post, Quietway 14 is already out of date because London's strategic transport authority, Transport for London, is rebranding cycle routes simply as "Cycleways".I'll leave the...
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Back to Midland Road
After looking at QW14 on the last London Cycle Safari, we went for a quick ride up to Midland Road by King's Cross station.Now I did take a pretty good look at the works to build cycle tracks along...
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Peaceful
I've been thinking a lot about the things that I like in a street or a place and I have come to the realisation that the thing I am always trying to grasp for is somewhere that is peaceful.It's...
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Take Me Down To Luxembourg City
Take me down to Luxembourg City where the grass is green and the trams are pretty. Yes, I've been on holiday and of course, there was plenty of interesting transport-related stuff to see. This week,...
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Suburban Serenity
Long before I got interested in how our urban places are put together I read about the city of Freiburg in southwest Germany and more specifically, the neighbourhood of Vauban which was built as a...
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The Ethical Question
Yesterday saw the global climate strike and as I was on the train to work, it led me to pose a question on Twitter about how my industry should respond.The tweet spawned some really good debate during...
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Freiburg im Breisgau
A couple of weeks back, I took you on a little tour of Vauban, a neighbourhood in the southern German city of Freiburg im Breisgau. This week, I'm taking a look at the city centre itself.There's no...
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Lamlash Garden: A Hidden Gem
I do like those little places that one just stumbles across in the street network which give joy and Lamlash Garden tucked behind the Elephant and Castle in London is one just place.I was on my way...
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Where is Chapter 6?
In a week where the government has proudly said it will fund £13m for bikeability training in a press release that as usual just drones on about cycling being a good thing I am still looking at...
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