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Waltham Forest Cycling Strategy 2012-2015 1 Nov 2012 | 12:13 am
An appendix to this year’s Waltham Forest Cycling Action Plan (see previous post below) is supplied by the new Waltham Forest Cycling Strategy 2012-2015 Scoping Document (which does not appear to be a...
Where ‘Go Dutch’ is going nowhere: the case of Waltham Forest 31 Oct 2012 | 12:30 am
Part One: this Plan is not Dutch Antonio Gramsci famously wrote The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of mor...
Regent Street to be closed to cars - for display of cars 29 Oct 2012 | 01:06 pm
Cycling-friendly Regent Street. Where better to host a motor show than a street crowded with pedestrians? Great cars from the 19th century to the modern day will be on display in Regent Street, Lond...
car-centric junction design 29 Oct 2012 | 01:05 pm
You can find junction design like this all over Britain. Part of the verge has been appropriated, rounded-off, and re-allocated as carriageway for the benefit of vehicles turning into, and emerging fr...
segregated cycle paths in Ottawa triple bike traffic 29 Oct 2012 | 12:59 pm
Bike traffic on Laurier Avenue has tripled with the installation of segregated lanes for cyclists, says a report from the city’s urban-planning chief John Moser, while about 100 cars have come off the...
Cycling in the dark 29 Oct 2012 | 12:57 pm
Lights are being turned off on motorways and major roads, in town centres and residential streets, and on footpaths and cycle ways, as councils try to save money on energy bills and meet carbon emissi...
Pass your driving test with a bribe 29 Oct 2012 | 12:56 pm
A crooked driving examiner who took bribes of up to £1,000 a time to pass learners was today jailed for two-and-a-half years. Police believe there could be hundreds of illegal drivers on the road aft...
Conspicuity Alert 28 Oct 2012 | 10:55 pm
Did you remember to turn back your clocks one hour? At this time of the year it is now urgent that all cyclists remember to leave their Harry Potter invisibility cloaks at home. Too many cyclists are...
more scenes from the Hierarchy of Provision 28 Oct 2012 | 10:45 pm
Both the CTC and the now defunct Cycling England (which lives on digitally) praise York as a city which puts pedestrians and cyclists ahead of motorists, illustrating yet again that major institutions...
Killing of pedestrian hit by taxi driver on mobile phone ‘an accident’ 28 Oct 2012 | 04:01 pm
Scrutinising the figures for prosecutions in London relating to deaths and injuries on the roads, Joe Dunckley asks why the far lower response rate to deaths than to injuries? Could it be that silent ...
