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Policy & Prediction: It's The Same Thing
So, kerbs are tarmac are my favourite subject, but I do keep an eye on the bigger picture and the thing which caught my eye was the continuing growth of motorised traffic in the UK.The former "greenest...
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Deventer Dash
So this week, I found myself in the city of Deventer which is to the east of the Netherlands. It was a last-minute trip which involved lots of travelling, but it still gave me a little time to...
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To Bypass Or Not To Bypass - What Is The Answer?
Last week saw a lot of miles covered, with the first part of the week being a dash to Deventer in the Netherlands and the second part being back in Blighty (which is derived from Urdu if you're...
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It's An Accident Waiting To Happen!
They are the phrases so often seen in the local press;Â "something must be done before someone is killed" and "it's an accident waiting to happen"; and perhaps, they're a proxy for an underlying...
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London Kidical Mass 2015
Today was rather fun! We had the London Kidical Mass on our calendar for some time and originally it was going to be Ranty Junior and me attempting to get our bikes to Regent's Park.Presumably, I was...
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A Walk In Winchester
Well, this is one of those "what I did last week" posts, but for me, there is always a learning experience to be had. So, last Friday, the car had a rare outing (to be sat) on the motorways and I...
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I have been force-fed all kinds of management and business models over the years as I have been gently sheep-dipped through never ending corporate training courses. It seems that something has stuck as...
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#Quaxing Lyrical : Part 2
So, at the beginning of the summer, I got myself a trailer for my bike. I posted about my initial experiences here. In this post, I want to give some wider views and what the implications for designing...
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You Put One Foot In Front Of The Other
Today I did the school run. Well, the school walk because we are fortunate that our local primary school is a short walk away.By short, I mean less than 500 metres or about 6 minutes (a touch more with...
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Interim Changes To Tactile Paving Guidance
The use of tactile paving is one subject to guaranteed to get engineers, urban designers and users into a debate on what is needed and how it should be laid out.Well, the Government is currently...
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Zombie Nation
As Jim climbed into his car, he shivered as he thought to himself "the paper shop is only down the road, but it is too cold to walk". Jane was running late as usual. She yelled at the kids to put their...
View ArticlePowerful Words
This week's post is more of a reply to a post from Katja Leyendecker, erstwhile engineer and now PhD researcher.In her post, "A Common Language", Leyendecker decries a Sustrans suite of city-based...
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20 Years Since 'DDA'
A piece on the BBC News website about the protests in the early 1990s which brought about the Disability Discrimination Act has had me thinking.DDA (as it has popularly been abbreviated) came into...
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Learning Pathway
I have been meaning to write a post about a little scheme I have been working on (a team effort). It is nothing compared to what we are seeing in places like Central London or Leicester, but it is home...
View Article3 Years On
It has been 3 years since I started this blog with a crazy idea of writing something every week. Well, this is post #157 and mathematically at least, I have kept to my idea.My very first post was a bit...
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London Cycling Infrastructure Safari Part 1: Oases and Orcas
Last Saturday a group of us got together in association with the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain to look at some of the work in progress on the construction of cycling infrastructure in various...
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London Cycling Infrastructure Safari Part 2: Cycle Superhighways (Quality May...
Last week I reported on the Waltham Forest Mini Holland leg of the first London Cycling Infrastucture Safari which took place a couple of weeks back in association with the Cycling Embassy of Great...
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London Cycling Infrastructure Safari Part 3: More Superhighways & Tavistock...
Yesterday (13th December) was the second day of the London Cycling Infrastructure Safari Winter Series* held in conjunction with The Cycling Embassy of Great Britain.This is the third of three posts,...
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The Twelve Days Of Christmas
It's Christmas this week (in case you didn't know, didn't care or don't celebrate) and so I bring you my predictable 12-Days-Of-Christmas-With-An-Obvious-Theme (don't bother singing, it doesn't...
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The Predictable & Lazy End Of Year Roundup: 2015 Edition
Well, yes. It's the end of 2015 and that must mean my annual roundup of the last 12-months. It is also the end of my 5th year of cycling as a commuter, a mode of transport I came back to in 2011 after...
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