Posts Tagged ‘ London ’

Declaration of interest: this post is about a Sustrans project. Sustrans are monthly contributors to the keeping-a-roof-over-my-head fund, and I have definitely drunk their Kool Aid (”Tune in, turn on, drop out & build your own transport network”). But that doesn’t mean that what follows isn’t true! One of the criticisms levelled at cycle infrastructure...
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What is it with London’s fixie-riding cyclists? I have three theories: Riding a brakeless fixie in London traffic is an evolutionary cul de sac. Once you get in, extinction is the only way out. Riding a brakeless fixie in London traffic is only something that the deranged would seriously consider as a transport choice. We’ve seen...
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This via LBC: In a previous City Hall Question Time, Boris revealed that overall, things are safer for cyclists - the KSI rate (the proportion of cyclists killed or seriously injured per journey, or per number of kilometres cycled) IS reducing. Let’s be clear about this - It’s A Good Thing. The problem is, that there’s lies, damned lies...
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A video from the ever prolific Lewis Dediare, a.k.a. Traffic Droid: As Lewis admits in his own commentary, “I was on the inside lane on the red route lines and shortly after the boxed junctions. As I was riding I suddenly noticed this truck veering slowly into my lane,…he left his indication somewhat too late but I...
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I found this video on Youtube this morning. I’d seen it before, but not the rear footage, which is nothing short of scary: When the police contacted the owner of the vehicle, he refused to give the name of who was driving it at the time. In the absence of the driver’s name, the police...
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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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I don’t normally hold with look-no-brakes fixed gear riding on public streets. But this, via The Foot Down (and on Twitter via a Splendid Chap In Darlington) is local, quite nicely shot, and just the right length to be interesting rather than tedious: In case you were wondering why I don’t hold with brakeless riding...
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This from a post on Demotix.com, about the Blackfriars flashride: It rather proved the point that if the bikes and the cars are at war perhaps it is only the poor old pedestrian who has a daily battle with both. Here are some figures from the latest front-line dispatches of the war on the motorist (sic.): It...
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This is a story of what happens when a simple idea gets taken just that one step too far. Four years ago we did the Dunwich Dynamo - 120 or so miles in the dark, leaving North London at dusk, and arriving on the Suffolk coast some time the next morning for a fried...
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Every dozen or so years, studies on the effects of various drugs on spiders’ web-weaving abilities re-surface. There’s probably some serious science behind this, but I can’t help feeling that it’s a bunch of scientists doing the grant-funded equivalent of getting your dog drunk. Except probably without the resultant doggy incontinence & vomiting problems. I...
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