Yearly Archives: 2012


hierarchy of outcomes

I was at a thing with some people who thought that the Hierarchy of Provision was a good idea. Have campaigned for it, and had their campaign organisations push it.I’ve explained before why I think it’s worse than useless.In attempting to defend i…


the popularity paradox

Popped into town to see @mgtmccartney talk at Conway Hall about some of the reasons behind the paradox that screening a population for disease, if not properly thought through, can do more harm than good.I just wanted to make a note of one of the …


dead victims are easier to blame 1

Some amazing numbers about the response to deaths/injuries on London’s roads buried in a Robert Davis post caught my eye: Prosecutions: 7/216 deaths; 227/811 ???Serious/Life Changing??? (???Serious / Life Changing??? is an unofficial category Something li…


Untitled

I was writing about the casual way we accept dangerous roads and streets, using a few case studies where deaths resulting from appalling careless and incompetent driving on badly designed roads have been dismissed as “accidents” — not just someth…


on transport mode tribalism

Just banking a quote for future reference on the idea that we are “cyclists” or “motorists” or “pedestrians” — groups competing with one another. It’s from the Understanding Walking and Cycling report, of course, and still a source of upset for a…


a few quotes from the pre-2010 tories

It’s a nice day outside, I’m not sure why I’m flicking through the Blueprint for a Green Economy paper prepared by the party’s Quality of Life Policy Group. Just one of the competing views within the party, obviously. We believe that a Conservativ…


on behaviour change 1

the other thing that caught my eye in Attitudes to cycling was the behaviour change section. These behaviour change models have always struck me as pretty wishy washy stuff that contribute little to our understanding of the problem or its solution…


on cycle training

scrolling through the TfL Attitudes to cycling report while citing some numbers, I spotted these ones, unrelated to what I was writing about, which hadn’t caught my eye before… Cycle training increased the confidence of 76% of attendees. The tra…


trip lengths 5

This is what I was actually after from NTS, for use in the context of barriers to cycling and excuses for why cycling is impractical and mass cycling impossible. I couldn’t find an existing graph to show what I wanted to show, so here is one. Cons…


yet more on that cycling revolution

This caught my eye when I was citing some unrelated stats about travel distances in the NTS (PDF). I must have seen it before, but perhaps just skipped over it and didn’t notice what it was saying. Or perhaps others have already commented on it an…