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The tragedy around The Commons 17 Aug 2013 | 04:19 am
I did a video, because I was too lazy to think about and research and write up a topic properly, and because I needed something for testing editing software. It’s about shared use foot/cycle paths in ...
Railway safety doesn’t need scare quotes: it works 13 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Do you get annoyed, when it rains or there are autumn leaves on the ground, that your railway station becomes polluted by so many posters and announcements advising you to watch your step, and warning...
Don’t treat obesity as physiology or physics 5 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
I have a whole bunch of draft and outline blog posts from winter and spring that I was never able to find the time to finish off. To clear them out of the way, I’ve bashed out some half-hearted conclu...
Bristol: this is an embarrassment, sort it out 1 Aug 2013 | 11:51 am
Bristol is, I think — and have mentioned here many times — one of the top three least worst cities for cycling in the UK. They understand there that it is the danger and discomfort posed by motor traf...
What do we want? Marginal gains! 15 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
When do we want them? After a statutory period of public consultation Oh, wait, no. The chant that greeted commuters on the Aldgate gyratory from the couple of thousand who turned out at short notice...
Your country needs you 11 Jul 2013 | 02:46 am
On Friday: Join the London Cycling Campaign protest ride this Friday calling for clear space for cycling on our streets Meet 6pm for 6.15pm start at Tower Hill (where it meets Minories) http://goo.g...
Stevenage is not Britain 8 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
So a dull grey 1950s new town of 85,000 people situated 25km beyond the London boundary on the far side of the Hertfordshire green belt seems to have become the unlikely topic that has dominated cycle...
The choreography of a British intersection 4 Jul 2013 | 01:27 am
Copenhagenize recently analysed in detail how Danes behave at an urban intersection. I wonder what they would make of the terrifying mess that is the British urban road junction? You might recognise ...
In case you missed it… 7 Jun 2013 | 12:44 pm
…I made a little video with the incoming chair of the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain, who you might also know as the author of As Easy As Riding A Bike… Full story here.
Collective punishment and the bottom-half of the internet 3 Jun 2013 | 12:35 pm
Dawn Foster writes in the Guardian Bike Blog of the case of poor Emma Way, who tweeted about having driven dangerously, hit another road user, and fled the scene leaving that person in a hedge. Way ha...
