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Summer CYCLOPS Safaris: Part 2 - Cambridge
In my last post, I had a look at the first and third CYCLOPS junctions built in the UK in Manchester. In this post, I head 200km southeast to look at the UK's fourth, in the City of Cambridge.This...
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Glorious Govanhill
Over the summer I found myself in Glasgow on a city hire bike grabbing a couple of hours for a look around before a work engagement. My ride took me to the Govanhill neighbourhood to the south of the...
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Filtering The 1980s
One of my favourite pieces of streets geekery is finding old layouts and features which have been long forgotten, but are back in fashion as something "new".For me, the contemporary idea of Local...
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: Redux Part 1 - All the filters
My last trip to the Netherlands was in the Summer of 2017 and because of both Brexit and Covid, I've not been able to visit since. It was therefore fantastic to be able to visit again over the last few...
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: Redux Part 2 - The Woonerf
In my last post, I had a look at how the Dutch use modal filtering at the macro scale to provide for cycling and this week, I zoom right in on one neighbourhood in particular where filtering is the...
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: Redux Part 3 - Dutch Hills
As 2022 draws to a close, I thought I'd round off the year with a final visit to the Netherlands in the third and final part of a short series. This time, I'm going in search of some Dutch hills.Large...
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Bad Faith
There are lots of bad faith arguments around providing for active travel, reducing air pollution and frankly, any initiative which seeks to challenge the car-brained status quo.It is very easy to find...
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Cycling In The UK's Motor City - The Coundon Cycleway
At the end of September last year, I headed to Coventry, the UK's motor city to have a look at a project I had been following for some time - the Coundon Cycleway.The story for me starts back in the...
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Cycle Gates - A Useful Tool
There are lots of tools out there which we can use to make cycling safer and while I can understand that people would love to transform their towns overnight, I'm afraid that we will often have to go...
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: Redux Part 4 - Bendy Hamburger...
I obviously enjoy cycling in The Netherlands, but it is always worth getting back on foot to gain other perspectives and in this post, I report on a junction in Leiden that I walked around.My last two...
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Cycle Streets
I have spoken about cycle streets at the Active Travel Cafe, but it's a subject I think is worth exploring long hand in a blog post.In fact, there are quite a few subjects I have spoken about there...
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A Seaside Safari: Clacton-on-Sea to Jaywick Sands
I have a list of things to go and have a look at, and in April, I added the new Clacton-on-Sea to Jaywick Sands path to that list after seeing Danny Williams tweet about it. It didn't stay on my list...
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SuDS In The City: Esther Road, Leytonstone
In the southeast corner of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, a little project is nearing completion which is designed to alleviate a local flooding problem.Esther Road is an unremarkable street in...
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Battersea Bridge: What Can Be Done Quickly
Bridges are often contested spaces simply because they very rarely contribute to dense street networks and as a result, they funnel users to specific points which might be off their general desire...
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Railton Revisited
Just over a two years ago, I paid a visit to the Railton Low Traffic Neighbourhood, to the southeast of Brixton town centre in south London. I revisited because I had seen photos on social media of the...
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Voorrangsplein! Part 3
One of the things that constantly impresses me about Dutch highway engineering is that they are not afraid to experiment and improve.I was lucky enough to visit the Netherlands again a few weeks ago...
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The New Adventures of Monsieur Nugget de Poulet
Those following me on social media will know that I acquired a tandem cycle a couple of months back and as with my cargotrike, it has further sharpened my appreciation for how streets designs help and...
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Taking The Rough With The Smooth
The asphalt fairies have been out round my way and it gave me an opportunity to have a look at what they were up to a few nights ago.The road in question is a 50mph trunk road which cuts through the...
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The Non-story of 20mph Enforcement In London
A few weeks ago, Times consumer affairs correspondent Andrew Ellson authored an article on 20mph speed enforcement in which he took some umbrage at how London's Metropolitan Police deals with enforcing...
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Go Dutch 2024 - Part 1: The Hovenring
My latest trip to the Netherlands took me to Eindhoven and so I simply had to go and have a look at the Hovenring, an often celebrated piece of cycling infrastructure.The trip to the Hovenring was on...
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