Tag Archives: infrastructure

AWWTM: Return to Glasgow

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Joe

While touring the hills of England and Scotland a month ago, I briefly stopped off again in Glasgow.  I think they must have read my blog and been shamed into action.  Look how the city has changed in just six … 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: 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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AWWTM: Fast, direct, uninterrupted and comprehensive

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Joe

Boris Johnson thinks that he can solve all of the barriers to cycling just by splashing some paint on one or two roads.  As anybody who does not cycle could tell him, what is needed if we are to achieve … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Pie in the Skyride

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Joe

Boris Johnson is “doing an awful lot to try to encourage cycling“. He’s doing Skyrides. Did he mention that he’s doing Skyrides? He is, you know. He’s doing Skyrides. Continue reading at At War With The Motorist…

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AWWTM: Crap cycling and walking in car sick Glasgow

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Joe

On Sunday I took a look at Glasgow, a town I have previously only passed through without stopping.  Here’s my commentary: a mix of cameraphone and proper camera photos; some of the commentary comes from the live tweets that accompanied … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Overcomplicating things

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Joe

In the 1960s, people were convinced that there was a huge and growing problem with transport.  The then Ministry of Transport commissioned engineers and economists to look at those problems and suggest solutions.  The Beeching Report recommended closing all except … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: London: still not impressed with superhighways

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Joe

Way back at the start of October we mentioned that the London Authority’s transport committee were seeking your views on the hire bikes and the two trial cycle superhighways.  The results are in, and we must have had a massive … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Being realistic

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Joe

So I mentioned that Carlton Reid and I both like the idea of mass bicycle use, and that we agree that high volumes of fast moving motor vehicles are a barrier to it.  But while I have drawn the conclusion … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Surrogates and segregation

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Joe

The bicycle blogosphere has been buzzing about bike paths lately.  It’s an old argument in the UK, where nine out of ten bike paths are so badly designed that bicycle users conclude that they would always be better off on … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: I was a Cyclist

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Joe

I rode a bike before that.  It was just a convenient way to make the short journeys I needed to make.  Initially to the university in Bristol, where helmets didn’t really seem to be the style.  Then around the sidestreets … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Fear of cycling

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Joe

In last week’s the week before the week before last’s post, if you build it they will come, I described why we should expect that building proper cycle superhighways — fast, capacious, direct and sensible routes that are segregated from … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: If you build it they will come

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Joe

On the London Cyclist thread “is there anything super about the Cycle Superhighways?,” we hear Chinese whispers on the reason why TfL decided against making real superhighways and instead came up with the overpriced and failed PR exercise that are … Continue reading →

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At War With The Motorist: Superhighways

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Joe

On At War With The Motorist, a short review of the London “cycle superhighways”, after a quick go on “CS3″.  They’re exactly what you’d expect from the sort of “super” infrastructure that can be installed for pennies within a couple … Continue reading →

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