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Great historical speeches on matters of ambition, put through the Department for Transport Cycle Funding Filter™. Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall!’ speech – “We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of … Continue reading →

No, not the latest Matt Damon film. The ‘Badgertown Exception’ is a debating technique which employs the following logic.* Cycling infrastructure requires x amount of space. Here is Badger Street, Badgertown. It has many competing demands, and cycling infrastructure won’t fit. Because cycling infrastructure … Continue reading →

A short piece on the Evening Standard’s reporting of the Superhighway proposals. The first article in the Standard came on the 11th September, entitled Business leaders in revolt over Boris Johnson’s cycle superhighway plans, quoting an (unnamed) business leader describing the … Continue reading →

The Birmingham Post has published an excellent response to the claims from Councillor Deirdre Alden that cycling is in some way discriminatory. It’s worth reading in full, despite the headline about ‘sport’, which presumably has been added by a sub-editor. At … Continue reading →

By way of a follow-up to last week’s post about reducing the need to stop at traffic lights while cycling, I thought I’d take a look at exemptions to signals – how they work in the Netherlands, and how they … Continue reading →

I wouldn’t mind so much if the arguments being presented against the new Superhighway proposals in London were actually considered, and credible. But they’re not. In many cases, they’re ridiculous. Let’s examine the recent City of London response, which sadly is pretty much nonsense, from … Continue reading →

So the big story this week is obviously the launch of the consultations on two new ‘Superhighway’ routes in London. One running from Elephant & Castle towards Kings Cross; the other from the Westway to Tower Hill. Undeniably, there are … Continue reading →

So the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) have published their findings into the safety of cycle track design at junctions – or, more specifically, Trials of segregation set-back at side roads [pdf], to give the report (PPR703) its full title. This report … Continue reading →

Last year I wrote a long piece about (British) ideological opposition to cycle tracks alongside roads; opposition flowing from the notion that such provision represents a ‘surrender’ of the road network. People making this argument claim a variety of things. They … Continue reading →

*PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION* As I’m sure most of you already know, the Department for Transport recently made a decision to increase the speed limit for HGVs on single carriageway roads in Britain to 50mph. One of the arguments made for this … Continue reading →