Cross-posted from an opinion piece in Local Transport Today I’m currently working on the Near Miss Project, which looks at how everyday non-injury incidents affect cyclists. The level of carelessness and even hostility many people experience are staggering. A classic example is the MGIF (Must Get in Front) driver. The … Continue reading
Recently I got to hear more about Transport for London’s cycle superhighway modelling. TfL are rightly proud of their modelling work and I’m particularly pleased about their recent focus on cycling, traditionally so poorly dealt with in transport models. But I’m concerned at how the modelling techniques have been used … Continue reading
I hope to get some resources to continue the microsimulation work on buses and bikes and will update this blog when I’m able to take the work forward. In the meantime, I was planning something on the new Superhighways consultations (due Wednesday: keep your eye on the Consultation Hub), when … Continue reading
In which I try and think more about bus-bike delays, by creating a toy model looking at interactions in bus lanes. One thing that frustrates me, and others, is how current appraisal processes implicitly privilege a very problematic status quo. This comes up in safety audits, for example, where approaches … Continue reading
I was prompted to write this post by Mark Treasure’s recent piece about the West End Project. Why, asked Mark, do cycle campaigners sometimes seem to put other demands on urban space first, ahead of advocating for cycling? Why are we happy to accept that cycle infrastructure is not possible … Continue reading
This morning, alongside the general gamut of variable behaviour by all road users, someone nearly drove into me. He wanted to turn left out of a minor estate road. I watched as he completely failed to look and pulled out right in front of me. I had to think quickly … Continue reading
I wrote a first draft of this post some months ago but it got left on the shelf. I was worried it was too anecdotal, too long, too angry (or perhaps all three). Following a very constructive LCC-Living Streets seminar on Designing Well for Both Walking and Cycling, I thought … Continue reading
Here’s an article published earlier this month in Get Britain Cycling magazine – you can read the published version and a range of other articles at http://www.getbritaincycling.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/gbc2014.pdf Britain’s roads are unequal places, with substantial impacts on how people live – and die. In 1952, we lived in a multi-modal society. … Continue reading
Last week and this week have seen several inquests into London cycle deaths, with a series of sometimes almost unreadably sad tweets by Ross Lydall at the coroner’s courts. One of the inquests has been into the death of the architect Francis Golding, killed by a coach last November at … Continue reading
This morning I had a meeting with a representative of one of London’s Business Improvement Districts, to talk about cycling provision in the area, and the potential for further improvements. I offered to pull together some recent research evidence on preferences for different types of cycling environments, and as I … Continue reading
