Category Archives: Road safety

Man bites dog

Posted on July 6, 2012 by aseasyasriding

A story doing the rounds at the moment is the case of Andrej Schipka, who knocked down a man in central London while cycling through a red light, leaving him with a fractured skull. Schipka was found guilty of careless … Continue reading →

Posted in Road safety, The media | 23 Comments

A crash on a safe road

Posted on June 1, 2012 by aseasyasriding

Early in the evening of Sunday 6th May, a car careered off the road on the North Street railway bridge in Horsham, striking the railings beside the pavement. Judging by the location of the impact, I would guess that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Road safety, The media | 5 Comments

Pinch points

Posted on May 23, 2012 by aseasyasriding

Habitual cyclists are no doubt all too familiar with pinch points, those narrowings of the carriageways where it would be impossible, or unsafe, for a bicycle and a vehicle to pass side by side. They necessitate assertive road positioning to … Continue reading →

Posted in David Hembrow, Guardrail, Infrastructure, Pinch points, Road safety, The Netherlands | 7 Comments

Mixing with lorries, Dutch-style

Posted on May 21, 2012 by aseasyasriding

In the wake of Mike Penning and Norman Baker’s bizarre and misleading comments about the respective safety of Dutch and British cyclists to the House of Commons Transport Committee on cycling safety in April, Jim Gleeson took a close look … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling Embassy Of Great Britain, Cycling policy, David Hembrow, HGVs, Infrastructure, Road safety, Subjective safety, The Netherlands, Town planning | 12 Comments

The race to construct the Shard

Posted on May 7, 2012 by aseasyasriding

I found the Channel 4 programme, The Tallest Tower – Building The Shard, which aired last week, grimly fascinating. Whether a slant had been put on the nature of the construction by the programme’s producers or not, I cannot say, … Continue reading →

Posted in London, Road safety, Smoothing traffic flow, The Shard, Transport for London | 25 Comments

Vanishing point

Posted on April 30, 2012 by aseasyasriding

My undoubted highlight of Saturday’s Big Ride in London was entering Piccadilly from Hyde Park Corner and seeing, for the first time, the full extent of the protest. As one of the last to set off, and having been waiting … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, LCC, London, Road safety, Subjective safety, The Times' Cities Safe for Cycling campaign | 7 Comments

Letter of the week

Posted on April 27, 2012 by aseasyasriding

This one published in The Times, of all places, yesterday. Sir, It is sad that it should take the serious injury of a Times staff member to trigger a nationwide safety campaign targeting roads, roundabouts and junctions. But cyclists themselves … Continue reading →

Posted in Road safety, The Times' Cities Safe for Cycling campaign, Uncategorized | 15 Comments

Those baffling and misleading comments on Dutch cycle safety from Penning and Baker, in full

Posted on April 24, 2012 by aseasyasriding

From today’s House of Commons Transport Committee on Cycling Safety. You can listen to this guff yourself, if you wish, at about the 11:56 mark. Ellman [chair]– Can we learn anything on safe cycling from countries such as the Netherlands … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling policy, Infrastructure, Road safety, Targets, The Netherlands, The Times' Cities Safe for Cycling campaign | 37 Comments