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Cargo Joy
One the small pieces of daily joy for me is spotting cargo cycles as I walk in Central London - mainly from the Tube to my office, but elsewhere too.The problem of course is that cycle traffic is an...
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The Design Manual For Roads & Bridges Is Changing
The UK's design standards for trunk roads and motorways is changing, but there's no fanfare as the Design Manual for Roads & Bridges is rewritten.It's not a document that I am expert in by any...
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Dem Bones, Dem Bones...
Well a tenuous link to Halloween I guess, but this week, I'm looking at the 'dog bone' roundabout which is a bit of a curiosity.The dog bone junction is a development of the dumbbell junction which is...
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Traffic Signal Pie: Automatic For The People
This post is part of an occasional series on traffic signals. This time, I'm discussing push buttons at crossings.We all know about push buttons at crossings (stand alone or at junctions). They are...
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CD195 Designing For Cycle Traffic
A couple of weeks back I wrote about how the Design Manual for Roads & Bridges (DMRB) was changing and this week I'm doing to have a dig through CD195 - Designing for Cycle Traffic.The first thing...
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Overreached
Hands up who has heard of the Dutch Reach? Well I've heard about it because I'm writing about it, but even for me it's a relatively new concept.The Dutch Reach is apparently the way that Dutch drivers...
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Ooh That's Low
A regular staple of local news is when a lorry is driven into a low bridge, despite it being plastered in signs and hi-viz stripes. So, what can be done about the problem?The majority of bridge strikes...
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Traffic Signs Manual - Chapter 6: Traffic Control
Back in April 2016, the UK's rules of traffic signs changed with the enactment of the Traffic Signs Regulations & General Directions 2016. As with previous iterations of the legislation, it isn't...
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The British (perhaps specifically the English) have never had to account for their past and perhaps with the election result this week, our reckoning might finally be here.Because of a quirk of...
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The British Entrance Kerb - An Exclusive Introduction
I first went to the Netherlands in the early 2000s which was a decade before I became interested in how streets fit together, including the civil engineering elements that go into them.In 2015, I made...
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The Predictable & Lazy End Of Year Roundup: 2019
It's that time of year between Christmas and New Year where I'm having a rest from life and reflecting on the year just gone.Actually, it has been a tough year for me personally. At the end of June, I...
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Out Of Alignment
I think I have got a pretty good handle on the rules, regulations, guidance and practices of how street elements fit together, so even if I don't realise it at first, things gnaw away at the back of my...
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So Near, So Far
I happened to be in Cambridge this week and I also happened to see some relatively new streets. You would think that in the UK city with the highest rate of cycling that I'd have seen some world class...
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Terrible Barrier
Yesterday, I combined an invitation to be a panelist at Camcycle's AGM with a bit of a mooch around Cambridge city centre and a mini infrastructure safari.I'm hoping to be back for a proper...
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A Matter of Priorities
An interesting little quirk of UK cycle track design popped up this week and I thought it might be interesting to look a bit closer.The subject is shared-use paths being given priority over motor...
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Vision Zero - A Swedish Introduction
I'm looking across at the mainland again this week towards Sweden and the country's Vision Zero programme.Sweden is held up as a progressive nation when it comes to dealing with road death, but it...
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Who Is Liable
I wrote about risk and liability from the designer's point of view back in 2013, but this week I thought it would be worth revisiting the subject. The reason for revisiting is because there are...
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Parking - Perpendicular, Parallel or Pitched*
Prompted by a tweet by Mike the Navigator, I thought I would muse about the way we design on-street parking.I guess it's a fairly mundane subject and you'll be pleased to learn that I'm not going to go...
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Chislehurst Crossing Challenge
The Chislehurst War Memorial junction in Bromley, Southeast London is a good example of a layout where traffic control design has just evolved over the years and people on foot have simply been...
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Country Life
I realise I spend a fair bit of time writing about urban cycling infrastructure and so this week I thought it was time to talk about the rural experience.I think there are three strands to this;...
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