Category Archives: London

The Evening Standard disappears up its own fundament

Posted on January 23, 2012 by aseasyasriding

On 18th January, Michael Howie and Jonathan Prynn of the Evening Standard wrote a piece about the alleged swiftness with which Westminster Council were converting single yellow lines around junctions in their borough to double yellows; their purpose, apparently, to hint … Continue reading →

Posted in Evening Standard, London, Parking, Walking | 10 Comments

A spot of road rage

Posted on January 18, 2012 by aseasyasriding

Vehicular aggression being quite topical right now – Sharne Warne’s decision to drive into a cyclist being most notable, while Dr. C has also suffered recently, and Martin Porter has finally secured a conviction for his aggressive abuser – I … Continue reading →

Posted in London, Road rage | 3 Comments

Blackfriars – redesigned for pedestrians

Posted on January 17, 2012 by aseasyasriding

Much of the talk from Transport for London around the time of last summer’s protest on Blackfriars Bridge – a protest that centred on the failure to keep a lower 20 mph speed limit through the junction, and to design … Continue reading →

Posted in 20 mph limits, Boris Johnson, Infrastructure, LCC, London, Road safety, Smoothing traffic flow, Transport for London | 14 Comments

Cycling in Holland

Posted on January 14, 2012 by aseasyasriding

A video showing some cycling in Holland. Holland Road, that is – in London W14. As you can see, the road is aptly named, given that its conditions for cycling match up so perfectly with the Dutch model. It took … Continue reading →

Posted in Boris Johnson, Car dependence, Infrastructure, London, Smoothing traffic flow, The Netherlands, Transport for London | Leave a comment

‘Scooting down’ Euston underpass

Posted on January 12, 2012 by aseasyasriding

At Mayor’s Question Time on the 10th of November last year, Boris Johnson was quizzed at some length on cycle safety. Shortly after making his now rather infamous remarks about Elephant & Castle being ‘fine’ to negotiate on a bike, … Continue reading →

Posted in Boris Johnson, Cycling policy, Infrastructure, London, Road safety, Transport for London | 19 Comments

Treating the symptoms, not the cause – the uses and abuses of ‘shared space’

Posted on January 9, 2012 by aseasyasriding

Note – The upcoming Street Talks on Shared Space, and a recent Radio 4 programme, have generated a number of critical pieces of the concept. This post is my contribution, which I hope can be read alongside the articles written … Continue reading →

Posted in Department for Transport, Horsham, Infrastructure, London, Parking, Road safety, Shared Space, The Netherlands, Town planning, Transport for London | 18 Comments

D is for Death

Posted on January 6, 2012 by aseasyasriding

On the day that the Evening Standard publishes a letter from two trauma surgeons, urging action to separate cyclists from HGVs at junctions – One of the immediate dispatch criteria for the aircraft or fast response car is when someone is … Continue reading →

Posted in Book review, Boris Johnson, Infrastructure, London, Road safety, Transport for London | 31 Comments

‘Safe, direct and continuous’

Posted on January 4, 2012 by aseasyasriding

London’s Cycle Superhighways are frequently referred to as ‘safe, direct and continuous.’ This was, for instance, the wording used in the Mayor’s Cycling Revolution document from May 2010 – London’s Cycle Superhighways will provide cyclists with safe, direct, continuous, well marked and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycle Superhighways, Infrastructure, London, Parking, Road safety, Smoothing traffic flow, Transport for London | 4 Comments

Cycling On Piccadilly

Posted on January 3, 2012 by aseasyasriding

Just before Christmas, I had the opportunity to cycle along the new two-way layout on Piccadilly. This used to be a one-way street, with vehicular traffic only allowed to travel in an easterly direction between St. James Street and Piccadilly … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, London, Road safety, Transport for London, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Cycle safety in London – getting worse, not better

Posted on December 26, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Transport for London’s latest Travel in London report is out – the fourth. In the section on ‘Road Safety’, we are told that The year 2010 was the target year for both national and more stringent London-specific targets for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Boris Johnson, Department for Transport, London, Road safety, Targets | 24 Comments