Category Archives: London

Just what is ‘smoothing traffic flow’?

Posted on December 19, 2011 by aseasyasriding

In last week’s London Assembly motion on Cycle Safety (which you can view again here, around four hours in) Labour’s AM Val Shawcross made the following comments about Transport for London’s ‘smoothing traffic flow’ agenda, and how the policy is, in … Continue reading →

Posted in 20 mph limits, Boris Johnson, Car dependence, Dangerous driving, Infrastructure, London, Road safety, Smoothing traffic flow, Speeding, Transport for London | 3 Comments

Is the bicycle being forgotten about in London’s new street designs?

Posted on December 16, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Danny of Cyclists In the City has been tireless in documenting the increasing rash of widened pavements and narrowed carriageways that are springing up all over London. In his most recent piece on a location where a street has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, London, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 24 Comments

How ‘smoothing traffic flow’ is needlessly causing death and serious injury

Posted on December 13, 2011 by aseasyasriding

I am indebted to Olaf Storbeck of Cycling Intelligence for the background to this post. He has published an open letter, written to Camden’s Culture & Environment Scrutiny Committee, by Kenji Hirasawa, the boyriend of Deep Lee, the young woman killed … Continue reading →

Posted in ASL Abuse, Boris Johnson, Car dependence, Cycle Superhighways, Cycling policy, Infrastructure, London, Road safety, The Netherlands, Town planning, Transport for London, Uncategorized | 14 Comments

Coned off

Posted on December 9, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Heading back from an excellent Street Talks at Look Mum No Hands on Tuesday evening, I found myself cycling south on Blackfriars Bridge, on my way to Waterloo. This is the location of a disastrously poor cycle lane, the lethality … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, London, Road safety, Transport for London, Uncategorized | 9 Comments

‘Sharing space’ on Exhibition Road

Posted on November 21, 2011 by aseasyasriding

‘Give way to pedestrians.’ I thought signs like this would be superfluous with the fancy new street layout, which we were told would intrinsically suggest to drivers that they are moving through a pedestrian priority area. But evidently this isn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, London, Shared Space, Transport for London | 40 Comments

Kulveer Ranger on BBC Radio London, and how safety is not a priority for the Mayor

Posted on November 14, 2011 by aseasyasriding

The Mayor’s Director of Environment and Cycling Kulveer Ranger appeared on Vanessa Feltz’s BBC Radio London show this morning. Below is a transcript – VF – Let me go straight to Kulveer Ranger. He’s director of environment at the Mayor’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Boris Johnson, Cycling policy, Infrastructure, London, Road safety, Transport for London | 5 Comments

The Tour Du Danger

Posted on November 13, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Some thoughts on Saturday’s Dangerous Junctions Tour – or, as it has come to be known, the ‘Tour du Danger.’ The original purpose of the ride, as stated by one of its organisers, Danny of Cyclists In the City – … Continue reading →

Posted in Boris Johnson, Infrastructure, London, Road safety, Transport for London | 1 Comment

Time to get angry

Posted on November 11, 2011 by aseasyasriding

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 | 16 Comments

The death of Brian Dorling

Posted on October 29, 2011 by aseasyasriding

On the morning of Monday 24th October, during the rush hour, a cyclist was killed by an HGV on the north side of the Bow roundabout. From the photograph on the London Cycling Campaign website here, the cyclist was hit … Continue reading →

Posted in Boris Johnson, Infrastructure, London, Transport for London | 3 Comments

What should ‘Going Dutch’ mean?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by aseasyasriding

Matthew Wright’s article in the Guardian yesterday was entitled There’s more to ‘going Dutch’ than having a separate cycling lane To which the obvious, superficial, response is ‘no shit Sherlock’, and the longer, more detailed response would be as follows. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling renaissance, Infrastructure, John Franklin, LCC, London, The Netherlands | 5 Comments