This exchange in the same 1963 Buchanan Report debate made me giggle. I guess jokes about Tory shire county MPs write themselves. Mr Simon Digby (Conservative, West Dorset)The Report expresses the idea that there is something very unsightly in pri…
Continuing my filing — the long list of pages bookmarked for future reading and tagging. The 1963 Buchanan Report, Traffic in Towns, is generally treated as an object of derision these days. Architects and urban designers (and bloggers) display i…
Tidying up my bookmarks and clippings, I thought this one, from 23 June 1937 — 75 years ago — might be of wider interest/amusement to those observing TfL’s, uh, unique state-of-the-art solutions to the junctions problem. Oral Answers to Question…
Joe Moran’s On Roads quotes Fred Inglis’s 1975 essay “Roads, office blocks and the new misery”, presumably (but not necessarily) referring to construction of the M32, which destroyed, amongst other things, the St Annes neighbourhood of Bristol. It…
This paper looks nice. Like so much research it’s not exactly “news” in the way that news outlets would like science stories to be. Research supporting what was already suspected. The most important specific example of a broader principle that was…
Just clipping this comment for the scrapbook. Not really news, but some good detail to look up later. The point of Cycling England was to have expert oversight of the spending, rather than just giving the money to local authorities to launder into…
don’t think I bothered looking at the most recent of TfL’s annual Attitudes Towards Cycling report when it came out. They tend to say much the same thing each time: only a small portion of the population, disproportionately male, disproportionatel…
crappy posterous ignored this one first time…———- Forwarded message ———-In genetics, “Mitochondrial Eve” is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor of living humans. She’s not the “first” or “oldest” female. Obviously she had anc…
has posterous stopped working again? why did i pick this platform?
In genetics, “Mitochondrial Eve” is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor of living humans. She’s not the “first” or “oldest” female. Obviously she had ancestors and contemporaries. And her contemporaries had descendants, and her contemporar…