Author Archives: aseasyasriding

Are some motoring fines so low they actually encourage law-breaking?

Posted on July 10, 2011 by aseasyasriding

If you manage to get caught travelling at anything up to 50 mph in a 30 mph area by a speed camera, you will, most typically, receive a fixed penalty of £60. However, if you decide to make your number … Continue reading →

Posted in Dangerous driving, Road safety, The judiciary | 3 Comments

Doing the Metropolitan Police’s job for them

Posted on July 8, 2011 by aseasyasriding

I write this post in the interests of tracking down the clearly violent individual shown in the video above. Although the police were easily able to locate the registered keeper of the car involved, it seems that – by an … Continue reading →

Posted in Assault, Metropolitan Police | 10 Comments

Cyclists – Don’t be here, and don’t be there. Just don’t be.*

Posted on July 8, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Only 1-2% of trips in London are made by bicycle. In a perverse way, I can find a great deal of hope in those numbers, because it tells me that a large number of people want to cycle, despite the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 16 Comments

A friendly warning from Thames Materials

Posted on July 6, 2011 by aseasyasriding

“Cyclists – Beware of passing this vehicle on the inside” Presumably because the driver could be drunk, using his mobile phone, and have 20 previous convictions for driving while disqualified? Putz, of Barnet, North London, was previously jailed for six months … Continue reading →

Posted in Dangerous driving, London, Road safety | 4 Comments

Michael Isherwood – another cyclist death, another scandalous sentence

Posted on July 5, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Let us imagine the case of a train driver who fell asleep at the controls of his train. Let us further imagine, as a result of being asleep, he fails to stop at a red signal, causing an accident which … Continue reading →

Posted in Dangerous driving, Road safety, The judiciary | 2 Comments

Fantasy cycling targets

Posted on July 3, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Both David Arditti, and Freewheeler of Crap Waltham Forest, have recently blogged about the National Cycling Strategy, published in 1996 by the Department for Transport. This document set a target of quadrupling national cycling levels by 2012, based on a … Continue reading →

Posted in CTC, Cycling policy, Cycling renaissance, Department for Transport, Targets, Uncategorized, West Sussex County Council, WSCC LTP | 4 Comments

If you needed an indication of how far behind the Netherlands we are…

Posted on July 2, 2011 by aseasyasriding

… this is it. Wolvenstraat, Utrecht – a bicycle-only street. I wonder how long it will be before we see a street like this in Great Britain? We can only dream…

Posted in Infrastructure, The Netherlands, Town planning | Leave a comment

The chutzpah of Richard Tracey

Posted on July 1, 2011 by aseasyasriding

In a letter written to Danny of the Cyclists in the City blog, Richard Tracey, the Conservative group transport spokesman on the London Assembly writes that it is important to be clear that many Londoners do not have unlimited choice over … Continue reading →

Posted in Car dependence, Infrastructure, London, Road safety, The Netherlands, Transport for London, Transport policy, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Another HGV death

Posted on June 28, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Freewheeler has written a post today reporting the sad news that the cyclist Peter McGreal has died, a week after he was struck by a hit-and-run lorry driver in Bethnal Green. The driver was subsequently arrested on a charge of causing … Continue reading →

Posted in Dangerous driving, London, Road safety | 1 Comment

Car sick (2)

Posted on June 28, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Bristol, yesterday. I hope there wasn’t someone seriously ill in that ambulance.

Posted in Car dependence | 5 Comments