The Department for Transport is currently calling for evidence as part of a safety review on walking and cycling: closes 11:45pm on Friday 1st June. Reply here. Here’s my thoughts: not covering everything, but some points primarily related to my own work. Response to the Call for Evidence for the … Continue reading
Some upcoming talks in June 2018, linked to a couple of papers I’ve got coming out in Trans Res A (on infrastructure and uptake) & F (on cycling equity). Tuesday 12th June, Bristol – Inclusive City Cycling: reducing the gender gap (part of the panel for this Sustrans event), 6pm … Continue reading
The Department for Transport has a consultation out on how we report (and hence record) road collisions, which closes just before midnight on Tuesday (24th). Here I explain the background to the consultation and my response to it. My focus is on road injury data (“Stats19”) as that’s my area … Continue reading
Note (5th March) – the survey has now closed and I’m analysing the data. Thanks very much to all who filled in and/or shared the survey link. Updates to follow. This post discusses why I’ve set up this pilot project, and what I hope to achieve. So I finished the … Continue reading
The new few months are busy (we now have 30 MSc Transport students, the highest number since I’ve been at Westminster) but I’m still fitting in a few talks. Here’s some of my upcoming public events: 9th October: West Sussex Cycle Summit 2017 23rd October: presentation at UCL’s Socially Just … Continue reading
So in previous posts I wrote about why Hackney Council’s new Wick Road scheme – proposing cycle tracks along a busy B-road – has such potential, and about the tweaks that should be made to the plans to make sure it realises that potential. This post asks anyone who cares … Continue reading
At the weekend I walked along Wick Road with Natalie from Hackney Cyclists, making notes on detailed design issues related to the Wick Road scheme. Here are some detailed comments and suggestions, based on this visit. Hackney Cyclists have put a discussion thread about the scheme up on Cyclescape and … Continue reading
Reflections Issue 21 Reproduced from https://www.westminster.ac.uk/sites/default/files/rachel-aldred-cycling-reflection.pdf; published 4th August 2017. Written for the Eco-Cities Initiative Reflections Series. Cycling and culture For the best part of the last decade, I’ve kept returning to one overarching question: why – despite policy promises – have so many places failed to increase cycling, and what … Continue reading
This is one of a series of three posts that will deal with Hackney Council’s new proposals for Wick Road. Another will deal with the detail of the proposals (including problems that still need fixing – especially at junctions and crossings), and another with data on car ownership in Hackney and … Continue reading
Abstract I discuss ways of measuring (change in) cycling levels and risk, with a case study of Hackney. The post compares the Census 2001 and 2011 commuter numbers with figures for cycling volumes/trips obtained via DfT counts/travel surveys (LATS/LTDS). To use the Census as a proxy for (change in) all-cycling … Continue reading
