Category Archives: Sustainable Safety

A rebuilt gyratory that is still putting people in danger

Posted on October 3, 2018 by aseasyasriding

The gyratory system around Victoria station in Westminster has been a genuinely horrible place to cycle for as long as I can remember. Getting to and from the station, or cycling past it, involves dealing with multiple lanes of one-way … Continue reading →

Posted in Gyratories, Infrastructure, London, Pinch points, Sustainable Safety | 10 Comments

Complacency

Posted on April 24, 2018 by aseasyasriding

The Netherlands is a wonderful country to cycle around, with a dense cycle network made up of motor traffic-free paths, low motor traffic access roads, and protected cycleways, all of which allow you to make door-to-door journeys in complete comfort … Continue reading →

Posted in placefaking, Safety, Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands | 8 Comments

Sustainable Safety and ‘Shared Space’

Posted on November 22, 2017 by aseasyasriding

There was a bit of back-and-forth on social media last week on the subject of Exhibition Road, involving – in particular – the Conservative councillor Daniel Moylan, who had a major role in pushing the ‘shared space’ scheme through. One … Continue reading →

Posted in David Hembrow, mutual respect, Pedestrianisation, placemaking, Shared Space, Sustainable Safety | 25 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

Inconsistency

Posted on March 14, 2017 by aseasyasriding

Why is it that cycling is regarded as a serious potential risk in ways that motor traffic travelling at greater speeds (and with much greater momentum) is not? Part of the explanation must lie in the fact that we have lived … Continue reading →

Posted in London, Royal Parks, Safety, Sustainable Safety, Walking | 21 Comments

Plotting a Dutch network onto a British town

Posted on January 16, 2017 by aseasyasriding

An exercise I’ve been planning for a while is to categorise all the streets and roads of the town of Horsham. Some of this work had been started by Paul James of Pedestrianise London. A while back we had discussed a … Continue reading →

Posted in Horsham, Sustainable Safety | 49 Comments

Negotiating a large Dutch motorway junction

Posted on December 9, 2016 by aseasyasriding

The Dutch are of course famous for their cycling, but this does not mean they don’t build roads. Far from it – the Dutch build roads on a vast scale, and seem just as addicted to it, if not more … Continue reading →

Posted in Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands, Underpass | 12 Comments

Asking the wrong questions

Posted on November 22, 2016 by aseasyasriding

At the weekend I went along to the Cyclenation/Cycling UK Campaigners Conference in St Albans, where I was one of many people making presentations to a large audience. My one was on Sustainable Safety, and afterwards I chatted briefly to … Continue reading →

Posted in Absurd transport solutions, Helmets, Infrastructure, Sustainable Safety | 24 Comments

Sustainable Safety in action

Posted on November 8, 2016 by aseasyasriding

The N470 is a main road that runs east from the Dutch city of Delft, connecting it with the city of Zoetermeer. It is 12 kilometres long between the junctions with the A13 motorway (bypassing Delft) and the A12 motorway (which … Continue reading →

Posted in Sustainable Safety, The Netherlands | 20 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