Posts Tagged ‘ Cycling Superhighways ’

“Superhighways are Practically Meaningless”

“Superhighways are Practically Meaningless”

I’ve just spent a depressing half hour listening to the Guardian’s Focus Podcast - Are Britain’s Roads Safe For Cyclists? The answer is of course, “Yes, but…” Statistically, cycling really is pretty safe. Yet time and time again, those locations which are more dangerous are treated with lowest common denominator thinking that’s always slewed in favour...
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Is Boris Johnson Chicken?

Is Boris Johnson Chicken?

So yesterday in London another cyclist was killed. That makes fifteen so far this year, and it happened on the same roundabout, on the same Cycling Superhighway as the fourteenth - just three weeks ago. photo by Diamond Geezer The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) is calling for the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson to immediately have this roundabout...
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Friday Caption Contest: TfL Safe Junctions Initiative Edition

Friday Caption Contest: TfL Safe Junctions Initiative Edition

As usual, we begin by announcing the winner from last week’s competition. Some great entries, but sadly we only had one vacancy for a crash test dummy to fill. So after literally seconds of deliberation we’ve decided to award the prize to Mikael for his too-close-to-reality entry: Fox News: The American auto industry, in association with Nutcase...
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