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An Olympic Oddity
This week's post is a hyperlocal issue, but still worth exploring, if nothing else than to try and unravel the thought process a little bit.The road network for the Olympic Park in East London was, in...
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I'll Take The High Road
I've seen lots of noise on Twitter about the "pop up" cycle lane on Chiswick High Road in the London Borough of Hounslow. Cast your minds back to the heady days of October 2017 when Father Michael...
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Tighter Squeeze
One of the things which often comes up is how can we provide space for cycle tracks where there is narrow highway space, a subject I had a look at back in the Summer.This week, I want to take things...
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Gone Shopping
I quite often cycle to the shops and this week, I have a little story about a retail park I visited which probably has the worst access for those not driving I have seen for some time.I had to go to...
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Colourful Crossings - Is There Any Point?
In the earlier part of my career, I was a highway maintenance engineer where the mantra was about making things easy to repair. Years later, one of my tasks was dealing with requests for "stuff" to be...
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The UK is a driving culture and I think we should be considering the impacts on our society as a result.I'll level with you. This is an entire area of life in which I am a rank amateur and indeed, it's...
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Floating Bus Stops
One thing which seems to come up time and again in street design is as soon as a concept gains a name, it also gains controversy which ends up drowning out the voices of people who might have genuine...
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WRAT Run
Walking is both ubiquitous and hidden - a mode that most people use, even it's just a little bit and we've walking networks everywhere (at least in urban areas), but at the same time it's forgotten at...
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A Tale of Two Zebras
This week, I headed out on my bike again on a longer ride to blow the cobwebs today and as is often the case, I go out with a destination in mind. This time, I had a couple of zebra crossings I wanted...
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Go With The (Contra)Flow
I had cause to dust down some of the older guidance and research on contraflow cycling in one-way streets this week and I think it's useful to throw it open to a wider audience.The earliest reference I...
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Rediscovering Sketching
As an engineer, I need to be able to communicate ideas and concepts to other people and one of the most powerful tools I have at my disposal is drawing.There are obviously many mediums through which we...
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Permission To Cross
Prompted by a question from Leo Murray, I have somewhat fallen down a little bit of a rabbit hole on the relationship between people asking for help to cross the street and how local authorities ration...
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Invitation To Cross
Last week, I looked at the PV² method of determining whether a pedestrian crossing is warranted and it's nice to say, the post got a fair bit of traction with many people commenting on how their local...
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Balancing The Risk
I've written about risk a fair bit in the past, but it's always worth coming back to this interesting subject every now and again.The thing about risk is that we deal with it all the time without...
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The Predicatable & Lazy End Of Year Roundup: 2021
Well, for the third year running, I have to reflect on what has been another challenging year, especially as Covid very much remains with us at year end and political leadership is in short...
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What Exactly Is A Design Classic?
There was a tweet doing the rounds the other day about how how ugly someone thought that a secure cycle parking shelter was with a suggestion that a design competition be held to come up with something...
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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: Back To the Future
Aside from the odd regulatory tweak such as low level traffic signals and parallel zebra crossings, the UK already had the tools needed to manage its highway networks all along - we just sometimes call...
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Denial Of Service
The Christmas break is now a distant memory and I'm back on the weekly treadmill, looking forward to some warmer weather and some visits to look at new walking & cycling infrastructure.The last job...
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Footway Parking Fail: Redux
This blog has been running a while and so I sometimes forget what I have written. This week I recounted a footway parking story on Twitter which I thought I had explained before, but it was actually a...
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Traffic Congestion For Plumbers
People who drive and used to run plumbing companies always seem to have a lot to say about how highway networks should operate and congestion is often something which comes up quite often as their...
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