Category Archives: Road safety

‘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

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

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

Lethal drivers

Posted on December 10, 2011 by aseasyasriding

On the 21st of November last year, Matthew Bailey, a 22-year-old scaffolder from Gosport, headed out into town for some drinks with friends. A few hours later, returning home, he was struck and killed instantly by a car as he … Continue reading →

Posted in Car dependence, Dangerous driving, Infrastructure, Road safety, The judiciary | 2 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

‘A very safe activity’

Posted on December 6, 2011 by aseasyasriding

David Hembrow has recently posted a piece about a family in Cambridge who are considering giving up cycling – this after a nasty incident on a roundabout, in which a van struck the mother’s bakfiets, with her baby in it. … Continue reading →

Posted in CTC, Cycling policy, Cycling renaissance, Infrastructure, Road safety, Safety In Numbers | 23 Comments

Friday Facility no.8 – Wellesley Road, Croydon

Posted on November 25, 2011 by aseasyasriding

The short cycle lane on Wellesley Road in Croydon is possibly one of the worst, and most dangerous, facilities I have encountered. It’s extraordinarily negligent and thoughtless, even by the standards of the mindless crap that gets put on our … Continue reading →

Posted in Friday facility, Infrastructure, Road safety, Uncategorized | 13 Comments

A fatality map of Horsham

Posted on November 19, 2011 by aseasyasriding

I’ve taken the opportunity today to have a look at the road casualty map produced by ITO World, which maps all the UK road casualties since 2000. It’s an excellent, if eye-opening, application. Below is a screenshot of the map … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Road safety, Transport policy | 3 Comments