Category Archives: London

Encouragement

Posted on December 1, 2020 by aseasyasriding

I’ve long held the suspicion that the use of ‘encouragement’ in relation to cycling is a classic example of a weasel word. It’s a word that sounds positive (after all, who could possibly object to cycling being encouraged?) – but … Continue reading →

Posted in Encouragement, Kensington and Chelsea, London | 18 Comments

A rebuilt gyratory that is still putting people in danger

Posted on October 3, 2018 by aseasyasriding

The gyratory system around Victoria station in Westminster has been a genuinely horrible place to cycle for as long as I can remember. Getting to and from the station, or cycling past it, involves dealing with multiple lanes of one-way … Continue reading →

Posted in Gyratories, Infrastructure, London, Pinch points, Sustainable Safety | 10 Comments

Tackling some Westway misconceptions

Posted on August 7, 2017 by aseasyasriding

The routing of the extension of Superhighway 3 along the Westway has now been formally cancelled, as reported by Ross Lydall, confirming what had already appeared to be a certainty as long ago as last year. The news has been … Continue reading →

Posted in London, Superhighways, Transport for London | 12 Comments

London’s enormous cycling potential

Posted on July 20, 2017 by aseasyasriding

Back in 2010, Transport for London published an Analysis of Cycling Potential. – an assessment of many trips could be cycled by Londoners, but weren’t being cycled now. It was quite a conservative analysis (as will be described below) but … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling policy, Infrastructure, London, Transport for London | 17 Comments

Inconsistency

Posted on March 14, 2017 by aseasyasriding

Why is it that cycling is regarded as a serious potential risk in ways that motor traffic travelling at greater speeds (and with much greater momentum) is not? Part of the explanation must lie in the fact that we have lived … Continue reading →

Posted in London, Royal Parks, Safety, Sustainable Safety, Walking | 21 Comments

The importance of centre line markings on two-way cycleways

Posted on November 25, 2016 by aseasyasriding

As a general rule, cycleways in urban areas in the Netherlands are marked distinctively. If they are two-way, they will have a dashed centre line. If they are one-way, that centre line will obviously be absent. I think this is … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, London, The Netherlands | 23 Comments

Network

Posted on November 16, 2016 by aseasyasriding

Imagine if your town or city had just one suitable driving route across it, or just one suitable walking route – a line drawn on a map from A to B. How many trips would be driven, or walked, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Delft, Infrastructure, London | 7 Comments

Plumbing the tabloid depths

Posted on October 13, 2016 by aseasyasriding

In the wake of the Daily Mail publishing a series of photographs of cycleways with nobody using them at the moment the photograph was taken, and asserting that those cycleways are therefore ‘lunacy’ (apparently in the belief that doing so is any … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Journalism, London | 13 Comments

Doubling up

Posted on October 12, 2016 by aseasyasriding

Queuing might be a word with a French origin, but the British have a reputation for it, particularly for doing it in an orderly fashion. But our passion for queuing is, perhaps surprisingly, a relatively recent development, arising out of industrialisation … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, London, Uncategorized | 37 Comments

Going bi-directional

Posted on June 23, 2016 by aseasyasriding

The best of the new cycling infrastructure in London is almost entirely composed of bi-directional cycleways, placed on one side of the road. This includes pretty much the entirety of CS3 and CS6 – the former running from Parliament Square to … Continue reading →

Posted in Department for Transport, Infrastructure, London, The Netherlands | 41 Comments