Monthly Archives: April 2015

This hit and run incident at the junction of Tower Bridge Road and Abbey Street has been featuring in the new recently. Andrea McVeigh posted on the SE1 forum last week to describe what happened when she and her husband crossed Tower Bridge Road near … Continue reading →

This post is part of an ongoing series examining how West Sussex County Council are managing to spend £2.4m of Local Sustainable Transport Fund cash (won from the DfT back in 2012) on schemes of negligible ‘sustainable’ benefit, with a … Continue reading →

A large development is set to go ahead to the north of Horsham, on the other side of the town’s northern bypass. It will cover (approximately) the area shown in red. There’s nothing intrinsically right or wrong with new development. Indeed, … Continue reading →

Out on my bike earlier in the week I came across a road closure on a country lane just south of Ashington in West Sussex – Hole Street. As you can see, a diversion has been put in place. Not a … Continue reading →

There was a revealing detail in Bicycle Dutch’s post last week on a (failed) attempt to create a cycle street in Utrecht in the 1990s. One of the main cycle routes to the Utrecht University, Burgemeester Reigerstraat, was completely transformed and … Continue reading →

Back in November 2010, a cement mixer crashed through the parapet of a bridge over the (branch) railway line between Guildford and Waterloo, close to Oxshott station in Surrey. The mixer fell onto a passing train. Miraculously, no-one was killed, although … Continue reading →