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Why Is Twenty Plenty?
The widespread adoption of 20mph (30kph) across many parts of Europe is not a coincidence or a fad, it is based on science and is a key part of delivering sustainable safety or vision zero.Back in...
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We Need To Talk About Roundabouts
We have a scourge stalking the Kingdom. It creates a maelstrom of danger in the search for capacity and yet designers simply cannot see what is wrong.I'm talking about the UK's approach to roundabouts....
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The Predictable & Lazy End Of Year Roundup: 2020
Well, I said that 2019 was a tough year. I didn't reckon on 2020 did I! As the year got underway, we started to hear about a virus starting to emerge and move across the planet.On the 16th of March, I...
View ArticleThe Great Stink Redux
One of my civil engineering heroes is Sir Joseph Bazalgette, probably most famous for leading the construction of major sewers in Central London as a response to a spiraling public health crisis coming...
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Cargocycles Can Tame Suburbia
I have different ideas for blog posts listed - some I have even started. I've just done a tidy up and found a post I had started to write back in July 2017.I had got as far as writing the following;As...
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It's 'A' Sin
I detest outdoor advertising. At best it's an ugly addition to the street scene and at worst, it makes it harder to walk along the street given that it adds zero utility.One of the most ubiquitous...
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A Glimpse Of The Past
The footways are being reconstructed on my street and the work has offered a little glimpse of the past and serves to remind us a little of the effort that goes into the fabric of the streets that we...
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The British Entrance Kerb - Ready To Ship
A very common design feature of Northern European streets is where footways and cycle tracks have their levels maintained across side streets. There are of course lots of different ways to do it, but...
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Better Streets & Camera Enforcement
The enforcement of traffic contraventions has evolved over the years. Once the preserve of traffic police, it has gradually moved over to local authorities, although it's still not universally...
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The Politics of Winter Service
I wasn't going to write about winter service this week because I had covered it in two posts during the winter of 2017/18, the latter being a little more of a deep dive.But, I've changed my mind and...
View ArticleThe Development Management Engineer
One of the most powerful and little-known local highway authority roles is that of the "development management engineer".It's a role that most people haven't heard of, but it can have such an impact on...
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Voorrangsplein! Part 1
My trip to the Netherlands in 2017 seems a long way in the past and I'm itching to go on another visit. I have no idea when it will be possible and so I have to rely on my photos, Google Streetview and...
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Voorrangsplein! Part 2
Last week, I wrote about the Dutch voorrangsplein or "priority square" junction and how it could make priority junctions safer for drivers in a UK context. This week, I am going to look at walking and...
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Turn It On Its Head
Imagine planning and operating the streets network where the presumption is that driving and car parking is banned and every change has to go through a statutory and consultative process.Streets would...
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Designed In Risk
One of the staples of the modern media click bait outrage manufactured culture war is the one where a video is shown ostensibly of a "cyclist" doing something "wrong"; often pivoting to a "who was in...
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#LDN Cycle Safari: Barking Riverside
As I continue to get my lockdown exercise within a sensible cycling round trip of home, my options are becoming somewhat exhausted. However, I realised there was a relatively new development I hadn't...
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Kerb Your Enthusiasm: Flush
The other day, I posted a photo of a dropped kerb at a brand new toucan crossing which had been left sticking up about 25mm above the road surface. I thought it was obviously poor, but some...
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#LDNCycleSafari Goes Solo: A Trip To Thamesmead - Part 1
In the late 1990s/ early 2000s, I worked in Thamesmead, Southeast London. It is the place where I was exposed to all sorts of interesting construction. It is also the place where I worked on a project...
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#LDNCycleSafari Goes Solo: A Trip To Thamesmead - Part 2
Last week, I visited Thamesmead in southeast London, a place I worked in the late 1990s/ early 2000s. My cycle around the town ended at Southmere Lake and so this week, I continue the journey.Most of...
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Spingburn Road Crash
A few weeks back, a video was doing the rounds showing a driver turning right into a petrol station into the path of an oncoming ambulance on Springburn Road, Glasgow.As you might expect, there was...
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