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#LDNCycle Safari: Hackney On The Right Track
As part of my tour of the Hackney/ Tower Hamlets borders with Hackney Cyclist the other Saturday, we went for a look at a couple of streets which had had cycle tracks added to them.I have had a pop at...
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Fossil Fuel Addicts, Shock Jocks, Plumbers & The Unhinged
It is often said that unless you're getting a backlash, you're not doing anything meaningful; and maybe this past week more than any other time this has been true for walking and cycling.This week the...
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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - Injecting A Little Honesty
I'll say from the outset that I am a supporter of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) and as a result, I am trying to overcome my confirmation bias when engaging with people who do not support them....
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Tackling The Main Roads
So last week, I wrote about Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and how it was my opinion that we needed a little honesty from those objecting to them as to why they are objecting to them.The post had a few...
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#LDNCycleSafari Goes Solo: A12 Redbridge And The Green Man
A few weeks ago, I went for a look around Lea Bridge Road in Waltham Forest, but the journey there uncovered a couple of interesting roundabouts which are worth a closer look.I used the A12 to get to...
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Life On The Edge
As a kerb nerd, I'm going to talk about something which is a bit counter-intuitive this week and that is we should not use kerbs!Actually, it's more specific than that because kerbs remain very useful...
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Traffic Signal Pie: Begging The Question
Push buttons at signalised crossings is a subject which pops up all the time and when it comes to accommodating cycle traffic, we find yet again lumping it with people walking disadvantages both...
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Speeding Culture
I've often said that infrastructure creates the culture and for much of the UK, this is a motoring culture. However, as many people who have been cycling throughout the Covid crisis will tell you, we...
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Cycling In Town Centres Is a Network Issue
Every so often there's a flurry of complaints about people cycling through pedestrianised areas. Sometimes there might be a media item in which a talking head holds the cycling community at blame for...
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The Non Signalised Dutch Junction
So here's a thing. In an idle moment, I might have a mooch around with Google Streetview and something interesting pops up. In Hilversum, The Netherlands, I stumbled upon a protected intersection...
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Low Traffic Suburbs
One of the issues about working from home and keeping off public transport has been that cycling around to look at stuff has been that my range has been somewhat restricted and generally, positive...
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Seeking Refuge
Pedestrian refuges can be a bit Marmite to some people, but they remain a useful tool in our streets toolbox and if used appropriately they can be useful from a sustainable safety point of view, as...
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More Low Traffic Suburbs
It's simply wonderful to see Low Traffic Neighbourhoods spreading across the UK, although at least in my part of the world, I wish I did't have to cycle quite to far to find one. Hot on the heels of...
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The Moby Dick junction: You'll Have A Whale Of A Time (You Won't)
Continuing the theme of looking at things from my cycle, I thought that this week, we'd have a look at one of the most awful junctions I regularly travel through: The Moby Dick.I mean, there's a huge...
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#LDNCycleSafari Goes Solo: Over To Enfield - Part 1
Although I worked some four day weeks over the summer and I combined the August bank holiday with an industry event (online), I haven't had a whole week off work since March, so it was nice to pack up...
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#LDNCycleSafari Goes Solo: Over To Enfield - Part 2
I left you last week as I was heading north on Brownlow Road in Enfield, having just had a nose around the Bowes Primary Area Quieter Neighbourhood scheme. This week, my journey around Enfield...
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#LDNCycleSafari Goes Solo: Over To Enfield - Part 3
In last week's second post about my nose around Enfield, I was having a look at London's Cycleway 20 which runs along the A105 Corridor. At the junction of the A105 Ridge Avenue / Village Road and...
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Say, That's A Nice Bike
As I reach the end of my 10th year of cycling for transport, I thought it would be nice to tell you a bit about my cycles. They often appear in this blog and in my tweets; and I'm often asked about...
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Laws, Standards & Guidance
There seems to be lots of talk out there around enforcing guidance and so I thought it might be useful to explain why this is wrong, but possibly right at the same time.I'm of course thinking about...
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The infrastructure versus culture debate continues to fascinate me. I remain convinced it is the infrastructure which creates the culture, but at the same time, there's the tricky problem of the...
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