Category Archives: Infrastructure

Bodging

Posted on January 30, 2015 by aseasyasriding

Last year, Stop the Killing held a protest at Elephant and Castle following the death of Abdelkhalak Lahyani, who had been killed in a collision with a left-turning HGV at the junction shown in the photograph below. Both he and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Elephant and Castle, Infrastructure, London, Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands | 5 Comments

Do you have a problem with ‘fast’ cyclists, or with bad design?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by aseasyasriding

Fast cyclists, eh. Whizzing around; speeding through; belting around corners; appearing out of nowhere; tearing along. At twenty miles an hour, even. Sometimes. Twenty miles an hour. Hang on. Twenty miles an hour? Twenty miles an hour? Isn’t that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, The Netherlands | 36 Comments

Taking responsibility for social safety

Posted on January 20, 2015 by aseasyasriding

Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary, iniichael Dugher, gave an interview with the Mirror in December, which attracted a fair bit of attention, principally because it resembles a transparent attempt to court the ‘motorist vote’ (whatever that may be) – presenting Labour … Continue reading →

Posted in Absurd transport solutions, Infrastructure, Social safety, The Netherlands, Transport policy, Walking | 18 Comments

Natural character

Posted on December 17, 2014 by aseasyasriding

What is ‘natural’? The word, formally, means something that is not made, or caused, by humans. But this strict definition is very rarely employed. We use the word ‘natural’ to describe all kinds of things that are not ‘natural’ at … Continue reading →

Posted in Absurd transport solutions, Car dependence, Dual network, Horsham, Horsham District Council, Infrastructure, Mobility, Natural character, Safety, Southwater, Sustrans, The Netherlands, Town planning, Transport policy | 100 Comments

Toucan Play That Game – Let’s not make the mistake of continuing to lump pedestrians and cyclists together

Posted on October 29, 2014 by aseasyasriding

A new style ‘zebra’ crossing with a cycle crossing bolted onto it is in place in Bexley. This is a trial version of this new type of crossing, which is proposed in the Department for Transport’s consultation on TSRGD 2015 [pdf] – … Continue reading →

Posted in Department for Transport, Infrastructure, The Netherlands, Zebra crossings | 26 Comments

Selective attention to danger

Posted on September 24, 2014 by aseasyasriding

The local cycling forum in Horsham are banging their heads against something of a brick wall, attempting to get contraflow cycling on a short (residential) street that has one-way flow. This is Barrington Road. There’s a bit of background here, but essentially … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Infrastructure, London, Safety | 14 Comments

Is it always wrong to take space from footways?

Posted on August 13, 2014 by aseasyasriding

A couple of recent things got me thinking about the question in the title – is it always unacceptable to reallocate footway space, to provide attractive conditions for cycling? The first is this passage from the draft London Cycling Design … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Subjective safety, Sustainable Safety, Uncategorized | 24 Comments

Do Dutch pedestrians get a raw deal?

Posted on July 7, 2014 by aseasyasriding

My post last week – about vehicular cycling being enabled by Dutch infrastructure – prompted a tweet from Jon Usher, wondering where the pedestrian infrastructure was in the Netherlands. @steinsky @lofidelityjim Where’s the pedestrian infrastructure in the Netherlands? Honest question … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Subjective safety, Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands, Uncategorized | 25 Comments

Placefaking

Posted on July 3, 2014 by aseasyasriding

There’s a section early in the newly-released London Cycle Design Standards about ‘responding to context’ – the types of cycle infrastructure that should be expected on a variety of streets and roads, according to the movement or place (or both) … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, placemaking, Shared Space, The Netherlands, Town planning | 31 Comments

Let’s get vehicular

Posted on July 1, 2014 by aseasyasriding

The new edition of Cyclecraft was published last week. I haven’t had a chance to give it a good read yet, but at first glance it appears to contain much of the same dogma previous editions contained. For instance, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cyclecraft, Infrastructure, John Franklin, Subjective safety, The Netherlands | 26 Comments