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Category Archives: Cycling policy
Time to get angry
I can’t think of a better illustration of the CTC’s preoccupation with appearance over substance than the comments from Chris Peck, their policy co-ordinator, that appear in this Guardian article about ghost bikes. Despite their eerie poignancy, some cycling campaigners … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, CTC, Cycling policy, Infrastructure, London, Road safety, Transport for London
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‘Road peril’
On the 22nd September, the West Sussex County Times printed this article. Entitled Councillor warns of road “peril”* it runs COMPLAINTS of ‘rogue’ road users in Horsham has [sic] driven a district councillor to brand the town’s ‘great deal of reckless … Continue reading
Cycling to the station
Yesterday afternoon I caught a train to Brighton from Three Bridges station, in Crawley. On the platform, I was one of three people with a Brompton. Each and every one of us had, presumably, arrived at the station by bike. … Continue reading
The subtle enslavement of parents
Idly thumbing through a local freesheet while on my coffee break this morning, I encountered a news article entitled ‘Dads Sentenced to a Year Behind The Wheel.’ It turned out to refer not to a curious punishment meted out by a … Continue reading
Posted in Car dependence, Cycling policy, The media, The Netherlands, Uncategorized
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Friday Facility No. 3 – Worthing Road Roundabout, Horsham
This week our winning facility is an off-road cycle track, designed to allow cyclists to negotiate a busy roundabout at the southern entrance to Horsham town centre. The first section starts on the pavement to the left. The roundabout we … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling policy, Friday facility, Horsham, Infrastructure, Town planning
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Friday Facility – no.2, North Street, Horsham
Never mind the quality, feel the width. This excellent facility runs from a shared-use overbridge that connects directly into Horsham town centre, to… nowhere in particular. It runs alongside North Street in Horsham, towards the railway station, for about a … Continue reading
The Understanding Walking and Cycling report – an assessment
The full text of the Understanding Walking and Cycling report, produced by academics from the Universities of Lancaster and Oxford Brookes, has finally appeared, following an interim report that was summarized in the Guardian. Despite the conclusions of this report being … Continue reading
The Cycling Embassy is launched
The sun shone on Saturday for the official launch of the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain. My short ride from Victoria station to Lambeth Bridge – the launch location – took me down Vauxhall Bridge Road, where I attempted to take … Continue reading
Friday Facility – No.1, Trent Close, Crawley
The first in a regular Friday feature, detailing pisspoor cycling infrastructure where I live. Hopefully it will be worth a good chuckle, if nothing else. Here we see a half-decent shared use path – which provides a shortcut across a … Continue reading
LCC’s curious image choice
The London Cycling Campaign members have voted to ‘Go Dutch‘ as their campaigning strategy for the London 2012 Mayoral elections, this option winning an outright majority of the votes. What I find rather interesting, in retrospect, are the images that … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling policy, Infrastructure, LCC, London, Uncategorized
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