Cycle Infrastructure

I was working in Wallsend this morning, and then had to pop into Newcastle for a couple of things, finishing up with dropping something off with Carlton Reid. Whenever he’s come to my house he’s come along the Coast Road - it’s arrow-straight, and runs from the edge of Newcastle to, uh, the coast...
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I popped into our local B&Q store yesterday to look at materials for constructing the tandem’s cargo module. I had to laugh at their cycle parking facilities: Maybe these are all cargo bikes? But I couldn’t see any pedals on them! You could of course think that the sign’s just in the wrong place, and it...
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You can’t say that we don’t ask the big questions here! So. Here’s my problem. I have this image in my mind of a point in the future, where there’ll be integrated networks for people on bikes in all British towns and cities. It will be possible to get pretty much from your front door...
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So this afternoon, on my way back from the Team Valley, I dropped in to my local Apple dealer to see about some more memory for my PowerMac. The guy I usually deal with was outside indulging in his recreational drug (nicotine), chatting with a friend of his. As I rode up, this guy looked...
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I have a love/hate relationship with bike lanes and cycle tracks. Too often, they’re like the little girl from the nursery rhyme. She rode down the street on a bike that she’d borrowed, When bike lanes were good, they were very, very good, But when they were bad, they were horrid. OK, so I’ll probably wait a long...
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I found this video on YouTube about the debate in New York. It’s three years old, so if you’ve visited / live there, I’d love to hear if there have been any changes: As far as segregtion & integration goes, I’ve still not yet made up my mind. I look at what has been achieved...
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Coming to probably quite small screens on a desk top near you: *UPDATE* The full version of this video is now featured on this blog post, along with details of how I feel Nick Clennett, Gateshead Council’s Head of Transportation and Highways has let us down with the sub-standard bike facilities around Gateshead College’s Baltic...
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The question posed today by the Fat Lad, which I picked up via The Bicycle Diaries was, Are dedicated bike lanes protecting you from cagers or treating cyclists as 2nd class road users? It’s one of those subjects like the ‘H’ word that’s sure to generate a stack of opinions, usually backed up with Science. Real...
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So yesterday was meeting & talking about getting kids on their bikes with the Tony Blair Sports Foundation . . . and today was email chat with a business support agency in Tyneside about getting their employees on their bikes . . . and then a great meeting with Sustrans. (followed by having to...
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Some people love the architecture, and some loathe it. Let’s face it, there’s a certain element of Borg Cube about it, and some of the tenants are cyborgs. The receptionist also once told me that “resistance is useless”, though that’s an entirely different story. But as an office space the Quadrus Centre’s not bad at...
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