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Category Archives: Road safety
Revisiting the past
Joe Dunckley has been doing a lot of history recently. In a similar vein, I found this extract from a new paper by Colin Pooley (one of the authors of the Understanding Walking and Cycling report) fascinating and depressing in … Continue reading
What is pedestrian guardrail for?
A tragic story from Rhos-on-Sea in North Wales. A PENSIONER was killed and another woman left seriously injured after a car hit two pedestrians. The crash happened in Rhos-on-Sea, when the car mounted the pavement and struck the two women outside … Continue reading
Posted in Guardrail, Road safety, Walking
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Dangerous vs. Careless
Martin Porter, who blogs at The Cycling Silk, has recently mentioned the case of Karl Austin, the time-trialling cyclist who was killed on a dual carriageway in Derbyshire in June last year when he was struck from behind by an … Continue reading
When helmet advocacy gets really, really silly
A story from Kelowna, in the Central Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada – RCMP gearing up for bicycle safety blitz A warning to Kelowna bicyclists. Kelowna RCMP is getting ready to do a blitz in the downtown for unsafe bicycling practices. Constable Kris … Continue reading
Posted in Helmets, Road safety
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Crossing the road
Some good news – eventually – in Horsham. THE STAFF, parents, governors and children at Leechpool Primary School are having a triple celebration after winning their six-year battle for a pedestrian crossing and successfully passing two inspections. The Horsham school’s … Continue reading
Smoothing traffic flow, West Sussex-style
The village of Southwater, which lies around 2 miles south of Horsham, has expanded at an incredible rate over the last two decades. In the early 1990s, its population was just over 5,000. In the 2001 census, the number of … Continue reading
Clarkson gets it almost entirely right, but gets a couple of things wrong
You are no doubt aware that Jeremy Clarkson has been singing the praises of Denmark, and Copenhagen particularly, in his latest Sunday Times screed/car review; he names the Danish capital one of the world’s best cities because, in his words … Continue reading
Paris
As promised in my earlier review of the French city of Strasbourg, here is my report on Paris, a city that I found rather less civilised for cycling than the Alsatian one. I have, as it happens, already written about Paris, … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling policy, Europe, Infrastructure, Paris, Road safety
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Some local responses to the Times’ ‘Cities fit for cycling’ campaign
A letter published in the County Times of Thursday, 29th March – Safe cycling I am pleased that our MP, Francis Maude, has shown an interest in the safety of cyclists in the Horsham District (County Times 22 March 2012). Unfortunately … Continue reading
Helmets in cars, helmets on bicycles
An inquest has recently been held at Worthing Magistrates’ Court into the death of Toby Woolford, a young man from Horsham, who died when his car collided with an HGV on the A27 near Arundel station. Drivers speak of fatal … Continue reading
Posted in Helmets, Horsham, Road safety, The judiciary, The media
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