This week, Londoners heard the very welcome news that 33 of London’s biggest and nastiest road junctions were to be transformed: Gyratories at Archway, Aldgate, Swiss Cottage and Wandsworth, among others, will be ripped out and replaced with two-way roads, segregated cycle tracks and new traffic-free public space. The Elephant … Continue reading
NB: most of this post is a critical discussion of Advanced Stop Lines (ASLs) – to skip to my assessment of cycle conflicts at Cobden, click here. Another consultation, another set of Advanced Stop Lines and feeder lanes, this time a TLRN (Transport for London Route Network) scheme in Camden. … Continue reading
Please read this post and respond to the Aldgate consultation Currently, Aldgate High Street (or rather, Gyratory) is a horrible, hostile place for walking and cycling. The Google map below shows the motor-centric design, albeit uncharacteristically empty of motor traffic (maybe a Sunday?) View Larger Map The first time I … Continue reading
Returning to qualitative sociology… This post is written partly in belated dialogue with Dave Horton’s excellent Cycling Struggles series, which I’d urge people to read if they haven’t yet done so. More immediately, it’s a response to my going back to the Cycling Cultures data this morning, doing some re-analysis … Continue reading
According to Andrew Gilligan, the Mayor’s Cycling Commissioner, Transport for London has been working up detailed plans for a ‘substantial upgrade’ to Cycle Superhighway 2 since late April. This is good news. Cycle Superhighway 2 is not fit for purpose; it’s probably the worst of the Superhighways, which so far … Continue reading
If our roads were as safe for cycling as the roads in The Netherlands, around 80 of the people killed cycling in Britain last year might still be alive. Join the London Cycling Campaign’s protest ride this Friday 12th July, 6pm for 6:15, at Tower Hill – http://goo.gl/maps/8Czme We don’t … Continue reading
Update – I’ve just read this post from As Easy as Riding a Bike – posted the same day. Very interesting article and comments. I recently started a bit of a Twitter debate about the ‘calling out’ of cyclists for bad behaviour. I hadn’t been going to extend it into … Continue reading
With both academic and advocacy hats I am working on the question of when cyclists need protected space. Generally design guides agree that high volume and/or high speed motor traffic deters people from cycling, and that if these conditions remain, creating a good cycling environment will mean providing protected space. … Continue reading
I was prompted to write this post after looking in detail at a number of scheme proposals – both cycling schemes and more general transport/streetscape schemes. It seems to me that cycling still isn’t usually mainstreamed, even into the cycling schemes! Hence this is my attempt to put down some … Continue reading
Jump to my Piccadilly Two Way Part Two priorities here. Westminster Council’s draft cycling strategy has come in for some criticism, which I’m not going to reiterate here, although I’d agree with many of the points made. Instead, I wanted to think about the strategy in relation to the Piccadilly … Continue reading
