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AWWTM: Government wakes from electric dream

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Joe

So Philip Hammond’s policy — his one lonely policy* — of encouraging people to drive electric vehicles has been cut.  The government are still wasting money giving £5,000 subsidies to people who are already able to afford expensive new electric … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: How localism works: councils lose power to reject sprawl and congestion

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Joe

A draft of the National Planning Policy Framework has been leaked.  This is the document that Eric Pickles’s department, Community and Local Government, has been preparing to replace some of the previous government’s policies, rules, and guidelines on development and … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Friday photo: star of the show

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Joe

This was during the first of the student protests last year, when Conservative Party HQ was smashed up for the cameras.  It was long over by this time, but there was still a large backlog of arrests being processed in … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Followup: pimp my ride

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Joe

Before the last random meandering tour of the hills and mountain ranges of England and Scotland (idea for a book: find the least flat end-to-end route) I briefly mentioned the latest accessories with which I had pimped my ride.  A … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Friday photo: bloody motorists…

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Joe

You can hardly walk anywhere in the countryside ’round here without your way being blocked by some anti-social motorist who has left a vehicle on a footpath… Even after all this time, I still find it so bizarre that in … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Shaftesbury Cycle Revival

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Joe

I went to school in a small Westcountry market town — Shaftesbury, in Dorset.  Built on a chalk hillside, Shaftesbury’s claim to fame is a steep cobbled street of simple picturesque cottages, a street you might recognise from one of … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Friday photo: imagine they are all drivers

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Joe

While working on my photography stuff, it occurred to me to add a new recurring feature here…   A cloud of single occupant vehicles. This is London’s Silk Road — Theobald’s Road for the West End on the right, heading … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Tipping points

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Joe

Since the 1950s, bicycle use has declined.  The one overwhelming reason is that decades of road construction, widening, and “improvement”, coupled with the advances in car technology that put machines designed for the autobahn on British city streets and country … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: The out-of-sight commuters that don’t matter to TfL

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Joe

The sky lightening, I head for a bridge with a scene that would suit a subtle sunrise photograph, as Big Ben rang for four fifteen.  Bored policemen loiter beside their van, parked in the Westminster Bridge bike lane.  Tired taxi … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Ceci n’est pas une piste de bicyclette

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Joe

Sorry, I failed to post much because I’ve been on the road.  And sometimes the Sustrans paths. This is a forestry track, NCN 68, Kielder Forest, Northumberland. I hesitate to criticise Sustrans because I know that they are good people, … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: @bengoldacre on bicycles

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Joe

Like my googlereader and my drafts folder, my podcast app has a frighteningly large backlog.  This evening while on random play it stumbled on an episode of Little Atoms from 2008, with Ben Goldacre, in which he talks about the … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Pimp my ride

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Joe

I did mention that I quit my job six weeks ago, to be a full time bicycle touring landscape photographer for the summer, right?  I’ve been on a short break between tours — a few days to catch up with … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Headline figures

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Joe

In rare events like bicyclist injuries, odds ratios can be used as an approximation of relative risk: that is, how much a medical intervention changes the risk of a specific outcome.  An odds ratio of 0.3 is interpreted as a … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: So what’s the best evidence we have on bicycle helmets?

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Joe

According to the Cochrane Collaboration — the source that most doctors will go to for their summary of the evidence — it is five studies from the 1980s and 1990s. Continue reading at At War With The Motorist…

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AWWTM: State intervention

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Joe

In reviewing the Radio 4 documentary Bristol: Cycling City (I didn’t hear it and was too slow on the iPlayer), the Guardian‘s radio critic Elisabeth Mahoney once again revealed the bizarrely muddled thinking of a nation so thoroughly addicted to … Continue reading →

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