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The context and implications of a photograph
The CTC’s recent statement of support for quality segregation was, oddly, illustrated by a negative – the kind of crap off-road cycle path we all hate - but not a positive.If you wanted to find out...
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Self-harming commuters
It’s extraordinary, isn’t it, but every day London’s train stations are packed with people going to work. Other commuters use buses. Some walk. And what these fools don’t realise is that they are...
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visit the Vestry House Museum by bike
After many years of supplying no bike stands at all at its local museum (home to the oldest British-built petrol driven car), the progressive and cycling-friendly London Borough of Waltham Forest...
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Copenhagen cycling collision
A delightfully informal picture of Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, as she improves her shooting techniqueCrown princess Mary found herself unintentionally turning heads yesterday when she was involved...
View ArticleGilbert Road Revisited
My recent post on the CTC and Gilbert Road has provoked an interesting response from a local Cambridge cyclist.In its wider ramifications it strikes a chord, because it gets to the heart of where UK...
View ArticleThe human aftermath of the latest London cycling fatality
The husband of a cyclist killed in a collision with a lorry told today of the “nuclear” effect that the loss of a “wonderful, caring, vivacious person” had had on his life.
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James Bond and cyclists
(Above) Sean Connery on a bicycleMy current bedtime reading is Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, first published in 1953. And when I came to Chapter 15, where Bond goes on a high-speed car chase after the...
View Articledangerous Manchester
how Greater Manchester fire service spends its time:“Our fire fighters rescue more people from road traffic collisions than they do from house fires
View ArticleCrap cycling in Peterborough
A petition to introduce a cycle lane through Peterborough city centre has already picked up 78 signatures in its first few days.Darren Fower, Peterborough city councillor for Werrington South, wants a...
View ArticleCrap cycling in Dorset
Cycle event organiser David Wade warns newcomers that aggressive driving is all too common on Dorset’s roads. “We held a hill climb event on Sunday and once again our members were victims of aggressive...
View ArticleSpot the difference between the Mayor of New York and the Mayor of London
Today Mayor Bloomberg made an appearance at a major gathering of transportation agencies from across the nation and, with NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at his side, said out loud what the...
View Article‘We cannot carry on like this’
We will have to change and we will all have to contribute to building a better country. But our political system is an obstacle to this kind of popular involvement because it is dominated by the rich...
View ArticleTime to prosecute BMW for corporate manslaughter?
Isn’t it time that the directors of businesses like BMW found themselves in the dock on a charge of corporate manslaughter? They, after all, are complicit in building murder machines specifically...
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Incredible but true
Burdon Lane, SunderlandA cyclist in Sunderland who had stopped to exchange details with a driver after a collision was fatally struck by another car, police have revealed. Stan Coates, 55, of...
View ArticleThe government raises two fingers to cycling safety
The government response to the Committee’s inquiry does not take up any of the recommendations in the report Louise Ellman, Chair of the Transport Select Committee said today, Generalised talk about...
View ArticleKilling of pedestrian hit by taxi driver on mobile phone ‘an accident’
Scrutinising the figures for prosecutions in London relating to deaths and injuries on the roads, Joe Dunckley asks why the far lower response rate to deaths than to injuries? Could it be that silent...
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Conspicuity Alert
Did you remember to turn back your clocks one hour?At this time of the year it is now urgent that all cyclists remember to leave their Harry Potter invisibility cloaks at home. Too many cyclists are...
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more scenes from the Hierarchy of Provision
Both the CTC and the now defunct Cycling England (which lives on digitally) praise York as a city which puts pedestrians and cyclists ahead of motorists. Naturally York council is delighted by such...
View ArticlePass your driving test with a bribe
A crooked driving examiner who took bribes of up to £1,000 a time to pass learners was today jailed for two-and-a-half years.Police believe there could be hundreds of illegal drivers on the road after...
View ArticleCycling in the dark
Lights are being turned off on motorways and major roads, in town centres and residential streets, and on footpaths and cycle ways, as councils try to save money on energy bills and meet carbon...
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