I’ve had Dave Horton’s Who is cycling for? sat saved in google reader for further thought and filing. This particularly stands out, given this, this, this, this, this, this and this: there are two clear and present problems which bedevil UK cyclin…
Bristol City Council have an excellent set of documents, produced by a chap from their Public Health department, Adrian Davis, reviewing the literature on walking and cycling. He makes one-page summaries that even councillors can understand. His r…
note to self, incase I forget why I put this in Mendeley: people keep using the word “induce” in tumour evolution stories, when one event tends to follow another, and I’m not entirely convinced that it’s being used correctly. But I need to think a…
flicking through old copies of Nature to the pages with the corner turned down, before chucking them out. Dunno quite what to think about this gushing feature article. I can’t help thinking “yay, we can now rape the rainforest gently,” but, really…
Nature news piece in my to-process pile, with a nice quote from Shibata and an amusing one from Swanton. One day I’ll get my very specialised topic tumour evolution blog launched… only been in the pipeline since 2008 :o The main tumour was surpr…
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word “tiro” used in a sentence ever before, but otherwise everything in this 1982 BMJ — or British Medical Journal as it then was, in the days before we invented acronyms — editorial is familiar. Cycling is boomi…
Been meaning to file away this quote from Cameron Neylon, which you can interpret as relevant to whatever change it is you want: So what does this tell us about advocating for, or designing for, change. Michael???s main point was that narrow scope i…
Just banking quotes from a couple of things from my backlog.From the RAC: The latest figures available show that out of average expenditure of ?473.60 in both car and non-car owning households expenditure, ?64.90 (14%) goes on transport, making it…
Been meaning to look into making the case for it, as part of the Great Western franchise consultation, which I think I’ve probably missed now. Are there franchise-specific BUGs to pester TOCs into doing things? There should be. Anyway, the BMA’s 1…
Can’t remember who or what linked to this “Research Activities” newsletter (PDF) by SWOV, the Dutch Institute for Road Safety Research, or why I added it to my reader backlog, but it has some good things to add to the quote bank: …In other words…
TPS on NTM, via @geographyjim and @aseasyasriding The NTM is now so far away from reality that there must be an urgent review of how this has come about. For example, the results of TfL???s modelling for the Mayor???s strategy shows economic growth an…
Amazing comments on As Easy As Riding A Bike today: Mike Chalkley – Chair Bournemouth Cycling Forum says:After having been invited as Chair of the local cycling forum to send a letter of support from the forum for one of Bournemouth???s bids to th…
On random play through a massive backlog of podcasts, my phone stumbled upon this, from The Bike Show, earlier. Well I think it’s very important to put segregation in where you possibly can, but on our road system, some of which is Victorian — so…
from Chris Mosey’s Car Wars, on the Newbury Bypass, p134:Then Charlie Brooks, the debonair Old Etonian and racehorse trainer declared himself against the bypass. ‘People are getting pretty vociferous at dinner parties round here,’ he said.I wonder…
Those miniature delivery road trains in Utrecht that Bicycle Dutch put up last week? They were already in Labour’s great 1998 transport policy white paper, A New Deal for Transport. We will support local authorities and the haulage industry in the…
Friends of the Earth press release, “Road traffic reduction bill becomes law”, 21 March 1997: Charles Secrett Executive Director of Friends of the Earth said:”This is wonderful news and a momentous occasion in transport history: for the first time…
Stumbling through things from the end of the Major government and start of the Blair government, in the brief period between the end of the big road expansion era and the start of the too afraid of being accused of waging war on motorists to say o…
from that brief moment at the end of the Major government when front benchers on both sides were both happy to make the sort of statements that would today have the tabloids frothing about anti-car militancy. Hansard, 10 June 1996. Note also the d…
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport about Cyclists, Hansard 13 January 1997. Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich)Would it not be a good way of ensuring that more mothers were confident about allowing their children to ride to sc…
From the Good Health debate, Hansard, 20 July 1990. Sir George Young (Ealing Acton)Yes, but there is no point in installing cycle tracks if all that happens is that motorists park in them, which is what tends to happen in London. I am all in favou…
This, in the 16 November 1990 Road Safety debate made me giggle. Mr Roger King (Birmingham, Northfield)As a car driver, I am aware of the role of cyclists in moving about our cities. Many courier companies in London are now using cyclists and they…
Road Safety debate, from Hansard, 16 November 1990. Mr Anthony Steen (South Hams)My hon. Friend mentioned cycling. Great progress has been made in our major cities to provide for cyclists. I think that about 90,000 cyclists come into London every …
Still looking into the Thatcher government’s position on cycling. First, this, from Cycling Policy in the UK by Laura Golbuff and Rachel Aldred of the UEL Sustainable Mobilities Research Group: Also in 1977, the Labour Government???s Transport Whi…
amazing comment by a tireless defender against the War On The Motorist, from Hansard, 30 March 1984: Mr Greg Knight (Derby North)Several hon. Members have spoken of the need to educate cyclists. However, if any road user needs to be educated it is…
From the third reading of the Cycle Tracks Bill, Hansard, 27 April 1984: Mr Timothy Wood (Stevenage)I believe that there will be an increasing use of bicycles over the coming years. This will happen because of two major factors. First, the cost of…