Category Archives: Horsham

Selective concern

Posted on December 9, 2020 by aseasyasriding

Between the end of September and the end of November this year, Horsham briefly had a pop-up cycle lane, created in the space of less than a day by the addition of some bolt-down plastic wands and painted markings, converting … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Pollution, West Sussex County Council | 7 Comments

Putting inclusive cycling first in new infrastructure design

Posted on March 20, 2018 by aseasyasriding

Between 2013 and 2015, a section of the bypass skirting the town of Horsham was widened from four lanes to eight lanes, to incorporate a system of slip roads for access to a new development. This meant that the bridge … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Inclusivity, Infrastructure, West Sussex County Council | 13 Comments

Squeezing out walking and cycling for a few extra car parking spaces – local planning in action

Posted on July 18, 2017 by aseasyasriding

Why do we want people to walk and cycle for short trips, instead of driving? One of the main reasons, of course, is public health. If we cycled as much as the Dutch and the Danes in urban areas, figures … Continue reading →

Posted in Car dependence, Horsham, Horsham District Council, Infrastructure, Parking, Town planning, Walking, West Sussex County Council | 15 Comments

Plotting a Dutch network onto a British town

Posted on January 16, 2017 by aseasyasriding

An exercise I’ve been planning for a while is to categorise all the streets and roads of the town of Horsham. Some of this work had been started by Paul James of Pedestrianise London. A while back we had discussed a … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Sustainable Safety | 49 Comments

Horsham People Cycling

Posted on August 31, 2016 by aseasyasriding

I’ve started a photo blog, consisting simply of people cycling in the town of Horsham. http://horshampeoplecycling.tumblr.com/post/149096404467 I started snapping these photographs about a year ago, mainly inspired by hostility from councillors to the notion of cycling in the town centre. Department … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Uncategorized | 11 Comments

Propensity to Cycle, and the importance of main roads

Posted on May 26, 2016 by aseasyasriding

The National Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) is a powerful planning tool which shows existing commuting cycling trips (based on mapping the 2011 census), and then uses that data to illustrate where the main cycle flows are, or should be, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Infrastructure, Propensity to Cycle | 22 Comments

Journey times, and re-thinking filtered permeability

Posted on February 8, 2016 by aseasyasriding

On a recent trip to the supermarket I happened to notice a driver turning into the car park at roughly the same time as me. Obviously this isn’t something you would normally dwell on, but in this particular instance I happened … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Infrastructure | 36 Comments

Come and see Horsham’s ‘East-West’ cycle route this Saturday

Posted on September 27, 2015 by aseasyasriding

This Saturday the Horsham District Cycle Forum are organising a ride along the route of the town’s newest piece of ‘infrastructure’ – our ‘East-West’ cycle route across the town, funded by a Local Sustainable Transport Fund grant from the DfT to the tune … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Infrastructure, The Netherlands, West Sussex County Council | 28 Comments

Entrenching car dependence with brand new development

Posted on August 18, 2015 by aseasyasriding

A few months ago I commented on the new Waitrose/John Lewis retail site in Horsham, principally in relation to the way the visualisations of the (then yet to be opened) new development ducked the problematic issue of a very busy road severing the site … Continue reading →

Posted in Car dependence, Horsham, Horsham District Council, Infrastructure, Town planning, West Sussex County Council | 35 Comments

West Sussex and LSTF money – Albion Way

Posted on April 7, 2015 by aseasyasriding

This is the second post in a series examining the ways in which West Sussex County Council are spending the £2.46m of cash they received from the Department for Transport, in the form of the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF), … Continue reading →

Posted in Car dependence, Horsham, Infrastructure, Traffic lights, West Sussex County Council | 13 Comments