Author Archives: aseasyasriding

A bicycle lost control

Posted on April 19, 2013

A selection of recent news items in 2013, concerning bicycles losing control. In Hull – Police said the bicycle lost control, span round and hit the lamppost opposite the Holiday Inn. In Croydon – The London Fire Brigade told the … Continue reading →

Posted in Road safety | 12 Comments

A failure at Aldgate

Posted on April 17, 2013

I recently attended the first seminar in a new LCC Policy series, at which the Cycling Commissioner Andrew Gilligan addressed an audience of about a hundred people, discussing in detail the future plans for cycling in London. Gilligan made it … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Gilligan, Boris Johnson, Gyratories, Infrastructure, Junction Review, LCC, London, Subjective safety, Transport for London | 8 Comments

Pointless infighting

Posted on April 15, 2013

I spent an interesting hour or so yesterday discussing cycling in London, and the potential implications of the new strategy appearing from Transport for London, with Jack Thurston of the Bike Show, Bill Chidley, and Trevor Parsons of Hackney Cycling … Continue reading →

Posted in CTC, Cycling Embassy Of Great Britain, Cycling policy, Hackney, Hierarchy of Provision, History, Infrastructure, LCC, London, Promotion, Subjective safety, The Netherlands, Transport for London | 10 Comments

Compare and contrast

Posted on April 12, 2013

Exhibition Road – Exhibition Road – The top picture is taken from this flyer, advertising a talk given by Ben Hamilton-Baillie, entitled New Directions in Street Design, Safety and Movement. It was taken in early August last year, when the street was closed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Shared Space, Street closures | 5 Comments

The revenge of the inanimate object

Posted on April 10, 2013

Last year I wrote about the mysterious case of a bollard in Wimbledon that had the temerity to make drivers crash into it. Almost unbelievably, the council had placed a bollard in a position where drivers cutting the corner, driving … Continue reading →

Posted in Dangerous driving, Inanimate objects, London, Road safety, Transport for London | 23 Comments

Sustrans’ “Connect London”

Posted on April 8, 2013

There was some excellent news over the weekend, with the opening of the Two Tunnels route in Bath. The huge turnout, with people bikes and on foot eager to use this excellent new route into the centre of Bath, demonstrates … Continue reading →

Posted in Boris Johnson, Cycle Superhighways, Cycling in parks, Go Dutch, Infrastructure, LCC, London, Subjective safety, Sustrans, The Netherlands, Transport for London | 8 Comments

Exempting cyclists from traffic orders – leadership is needed

Posted on April 3, 2013

Before it was consumed in the ‘bonfire of the quangos’, Cycling England produced some pretty good guidance. One of their design principles was that cyclists should be exempt from Traffic Regulation Orders (or Traffic Management Orders, in London). Cyclists should be … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling Embassy Of Great Britain, Cycling policy, Horsham, Infrastructure, London, One-way streets, Street closures, West Sussex County Council | 10 Comments

Self-driving cars and simple errors

Posted on April 2, 2013

Some recent news stories – A man is seriously ill in hospital after a car crashed and ended up embedded in a house in Suffolk. The red Audi TT left the road and crashed into the home in Long Meadow Walk, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dangerous driving, Driving ban, Road safety, Drink driving | 10 Comments

A Daily Mail article composed entirely of nonsense

Posted on March 28, 2013

I realise this is probably as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, but the recent Daily Mail article about furious lawbreakers furious that they had been caught breaking the law (Mail translation – hard-working families hit by evil stealth … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 31 Comments

Would you walk here?

Posted on March 27, 2013

The recent discussion on the ibikelondon and City Cyclists blogs about carriageway narrowing, and how it can be dreadfully unpleasant for cycling, started me thinking about precisely why these new arrangements are so awful. Beyond the fact that it makes … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, London, Subjective safety | 10 Comments