Category Archives: Subjective safety

Instead of blaming individuals, fix the system

Posted on August 8, 2018 by aseasyasriding

Doubtless many of you will have seen this video of a ‘near miss’ on the A38 in Bromsgrove, in which a child narrowly escapes serious injury, thanks to the quick reactions of a driver – a fireman, Robert Allen. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Safety, Subjective safety, Underpass | 17 Comments

You don’t solve design problems with bells

Posted on July 25, 2018 by aseasyasriding

There’s recently been some silly-season noise about making the use of bells compulsory in our newspaper of record, The Times. Frothing gibberish on Page 3 of The Times today. Remember when this paper took cycling safety seriously? pic.twitter.com/iemsfa2seJ — Mark … Continue reading →

Posted in Inclusivity, Infrastructure, Social safety, Subjective safety, Walking | 26 Comments

Getting side roads right

Posted on June 27, 2017 by aseasyasriding

A bit of a picture post this one. Below are twenty photographs of cycleways crossing side roads, all from my week in the Netherlands earlier this month. In order, they are in Delft, Gouda, Den Bosch, Nijmegen, Arnhem and Amsterdam. … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Mini Holland, Priority, Subjective safety, Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands | 21 Comments

The helmet on the handlebars

Posted on August 1, 2016 by aseasyasriding

At the FreeCycle event in central London on Saturday, there were, of course, large numbers of people wearing helmets and hi-viz tabards – not least because the latter were, as always, being handed out to participants. But as I cycled … Continue reading →

Posted in Helmets, Infrastructure, Subjective safety | 31 Comments

Why they hate you

Posted on July 28, 2016 by aseasyasriding

A consistent theme that you will encounter in campaigning circles – and indeed amongst the wider public – is that British people ‘hate cyclists’, or ‘hate cycling’. The explanation here must be that there is something genetic, something innate in … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Subjective safety, Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands | 39 Comments

A visit to Superhighway 2

Posted on October 15, 2015 by aseasyasriding

The upgrade of Superhighway 2 has been generating some publicity (bad publicity), and this week I managed to head out to Whitechapel (and indeed along the route to Bow roundabout, and back again) to have a look at it. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycle Superhighways, Infrastructure, London, Subjective safety, Transport for London | 18 Comments

Rehabilitating the underpass

Posted on October 6, 2015 by aseasyasriding

Underpasses have a pretty dreadful reputation in Britain; a reputation so dreadful that councils, planners, developers and highway engineers can point to public attitudes and say ‘people don’t like underpasses! Why should we provide them?’ But – just as with … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Social safety, Subjective safety, Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands, Town planning, Underpass | 22 Comments

Stress test

Posted on September 4, 2015 by aseasyasriding

There was a typical August ‘silly season’ story last week – the idea of women-only train carriages, prompted by some comments from a Labour leadership candidate that were seized on and used to generate ‘news’ at a typically quiet time of … Continue reading →

Posted in Subjective safety, The Netherlands | 6 Comments

It’s motor traffic, not immigration, that prevents children playing in the street

Posted on April 1, 2015 by aseasyasriding

So Nigel Farage gave a speech at the White Cliffs of Dover yesterday, in which he suggested that children are not playing football in the street any more because of ‘discomfort’ and ‘unease’ due to high levels of immigration. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Safety, Subjective safety, Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands | 21 Comments

West Sussex and LSTF money – the Northgate gyratory

Posted on March 25, 2015 by aseasyasriding

Last week I wrote a long post about how West Sussex County Council are proposing to use millions of pounds of ‘sustainable’ transport funding (distributed by the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership) on schemes that have negligible (or even non-existent) sustainable … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, Subjective safety, Sustainable Safety, Uncategorized, West Sussex County Council | 21 Comments