…that I discussed in the origins of shared use post.Rodney Tolley’s chapter on walking and cycling in Docherty and Shaw’s Traffic Jam: ten years of “sustainable” transport in the UK (Policy Press, 2008): Under the Thatcher administrations from 1…
Cycle Tracks Bill debate, 30 March 1984: Mrs Lynda Chalker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Transport; Wallasey)In our safety publicity and in our work with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents we continue to stress the need for contin…
proper blog post tomorrow. Transport questions, 1 Nov 2010. Ian Austin (Dudley North, Labour)To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Bikeability cycle training scheme.Norman Baker (Parlia…
John Griffin of pantomime bad guy fame says: A few years ago, almost every school child did a cycling proficiency test, which involved negotiating their way around bollards and learning the Highway Code. What has happened to that, and why is it no…
Hansard, 28 Feb 1994. Mr Robert Key (Salisbury)I shall shortly announce a new Government cycling policy. I am not sure that we have ever had one, but it is high time that we did.The announcement was presumably of the policy that led to the Nationa…
For a blog post, coming soon. Hansard, 17 Feb 1993. Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby)There has been an encouraging increase in the sale of mountain bikes, but sadly there has been no marked increase in cycling???indeed; there is anecdotal evidence of cycli…
Hansard, 9 May 2006. Note the claim that off-road routes are not being taken into account in the statistics. I will have to look into that. Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith, Labour) I am aware that the figure for Britain may be a little …
from a parish plan for a nearby small rural village divided by a primary route. It seems that guardrail, though less requested than speed cameras and a crossing, is surprisingly popular with residents… 9. Roadside BarriersRequested by 28% of res…
Phil Goodwin says: So let us do a role-playing game. Suppose you are the investment manager for XYZ Pension Fund, considering whether to invest in the M999 bridge and motorway widening programme, vitally necessary, you are told, because it is alre…
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…
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Followup to the introduction of shared use at the start of the 1980s, guidance from the mid ’80s in LTN 2/86, “Shared use by cyclists and pedestrians” (PDF) — their original emphasis: 2.1 Allowing cyclists even limited use of facilities previousl…
Earl Howe, now Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health, points out that you need to have an organisation like Cycling England to hold local authorities properly to account — the exact conclusion of the DfT review of the…
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…
The Guardian, “75 years after the UK’s first cycle lane opened, the same debates rage on”. BalbKubrox14 December 2009 10:52AM@felixcat:I suspect that the cycle track in the original report is similar to the ones beside the Liverpool- Preston road,…
Hmmm. Transport questions, 22 Dec 1954. Viscount Hinchingbrooke (South Dorset)asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he is aware of the waste of land and money involved in the provision of cycle tracks as well as footpaths on e…
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…
Cycling questions, 28 Nov 1958. Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett (Croydon, North-East)Again, there is the mistaken fear that cycling is unduly dangerous. In point of fact???anyhow, in point of statistical fact???one’s chances of being involved in an a…
Hansard, 5 July 1939, in full, without comment. Mr William Leach (Bradford Central)I would add my congratulations to those which other hon. Members have addressed to the Minister on his accession to his present office. He starts with very consider…
nice feature on the Avon Longitudinal Study in today’s Nature. In 2007, however, data from ALSPAC and several other large human biobanks were used to scour the human genome for single-letter variants associated with obesity. The work turned up a g…
On many roads, Department for Transport press releases announcing the annual funding for cycling training that they’ve been funding for decades now outnumber actual cyclists.
in case you thought current and recent governments were bad, look at what you get when you go back to the days of futuristic New Towns and Highways In The Sky… Cycling debate, Hansard 10 Dec 1976. Mr John Horam (Gateshead West)The hon. Member ha…
I should have banked this one, too, from that May 1978 Highways Bill debate. Sir George Young (Ealing Acton)As chairman of the all-party Friends of Cycling Group I welcome New Clause No. 1….I welcome the clause for two reasons. First, it puts th…
From the brief discussion on 17 May 1978 of “cycle tracks” — shared pavements — in the Transport Bill debate. This became the 1980 Transport Act, which enabled both proper cycle tracks and crappy pavement conversions. John Horam had a junior pos…
31 tonne Timber Wagon at Taynuilt on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line, 30 Aug 1987. Marra Man says: The wagon seen here at Taynuilt would have been working between loading terminals on the West Highland line and Workington Goods Yard in C…