The Dimensioned Cyclist
There’s a lot to read, research and review right now in the world of new, cycle-friendly infrastructure design, but you’ll find at least one familiar character doggedly plodding his way through from...
View ArticleCycling in the Matrix
As a concept Space for Cycling can be applied anywhere, even in the virtual world of design, and thanks to some pointers from Andy R commenting on The Dimensioned Cyclist it seems clear to me that...
View ArticleConnecting the Dots
Four years into Oxfordshire’s latest transport strategy and here we are embarking on another multi-stage consultation for Local Transport Plan 4. The official reasoning makes a case for it but can the...
View ArticleForeign Fieldwork
Keep Right! Does Copenhagen’s success as a cycling city derive from the rigorous application of this simple rule? That, until I missed the deadline for abstracts, was the title of my submission to this...
View ArticleDisabled cyclists in England: imagery in policy and design
Things have moved on a little since I submitted the above titled abstract to the ICE journal Urban Design and Planning for a themed edition on disabilities, vulnerable road users and navigation of the...
View ArticleIn the Margins of Error
Wednesday March 30th 2016… “So what we got Sergeant?” “Open and shut case Lieutenant. Our guy was riding along the bike path, heading into town, hit a patch of mud and BAM! Wipe out!” Pats pockets,...
View ArticleCrossing Cycle Tracks
I used to despise blister paving. Sounds extreme now, but when it began to appear, seemingly out of nowhere, that response felt fully justified. At the time any lumps and bumps could be problematic,...
View ArticleNetworks and Context
Our fuchsia trail traces out part of the cycle network in the city/province of Utrecht. It’s only a small part. Even if it hadn’t snowed the first two days of our trip it would still be a small part....
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