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
Update, 3rd March 2015 – in response to debate on an email list, I have uploaded a letter providing further details of evidence around this topic, sent last September to a correspondent who requested it. Published today in the Evening Standard – from 24 professors with expertise in transport, health … Continue reading
Consultations here (N-S) and here (E-W). Recently I had the TfL plans for cycle infrastructure along Blackfriars Road and the Embankment, known as the North-South and East-West superhighways, explained to me in my role as an LCC Trustee. As a membership organisation, LCC will be debating its response to the … 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
Local Transport Today has just published my opinion piece on place and movement hierarchies. I’m reproducing a version here. I’m very grateful to Peter Jones, Phil Jones and John Dales for offering comments on a draft version: they bear no responsibility for my opinions or errors. At under 900 words … Continue reading
This is a draft of the key points I plan to make in my personal response to the West End Project. The debates continue, with the deadline less than two weeks away. Camden Cyclists are working on a response – keep an eye out for this as well as reading … Continue reading
Towards the end of last year, the LCC Policy Forum was asked to produce a position paper on buses and bikes. I have just finalised it and it can be seen on the LCC website here. There will be an associated motion debated at the 2014 AGM. The request to … Continue reading
I was thrilled to be nominated for Cycling Champion in the London Cycling Awards recently. And surprised. Early thoughts were ‘but there’s lots of people done a lot more than me’ (followed by a long mental list of names of people I know who deserve awards – if you’re reading … 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
