Daily Archives: April 15, 2012


they make this stuff up as they go along

LTN 1/89, “Making way for cyclists”:LTN 2/08, “Cycle Infrastructure Design”:As a result of concerns over the safety of parallel cycle tracks crossing side roads, it is becoming common European practice to reintroduce cyclists to the main road in a…


on the origins of cycling’s bogeyman

These have to be read in the context of the introduction of the first dual carriageway roads. Amazingly, in 75 years, some folk still haven’t noticed that the context has moved on a bit…29 April 1937: Mr William Craven-Ellis (Southampton)asked t…


on rights and duties

Meant to bank this astonishing piece, from the Pedestrian Crossings debate, 26 July 1951. Sir Austin Hudson (Lewisham North)… I happened to be Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport just after the pedestrian crossings???the Belisha b…