…1950s (as did cycle travel). Vehicle Licensing Statistics, 2013 and Road Transport Forecasts 2013, Department for Transport, 2013. “You are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic.”: https://www.flickr.com/photos/carltonreid/5260106747/ “The £692…
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…not built for sulkies, or steam engines, or any form of wheeled vehicle. Roads were not built for horses, either. Roads were built for pedestrians. H. G. Wells pointed this…
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…met to discuss cycling matters in the Hut hotel, an alehouse overlooking Bolder Mere. One of these matters was no doubt the state of the roads, including the once well-surfaced…
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…record cyclists at 10 sites across metropolitan Melbourne from October 2008 to April 2009. They found that of 4,225 cyclists facing a red light, only 6.9% didn’t stop. When a…
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Now that the book is nearly out I’m taking a rest from writing feature articles on this site. The blog archive is still intact and all of the URLs still…
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Now that the book is nearly out I’m taking a rest from writing feature articles on this site. The blog archive is still intact and all of the URLs still…
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…to die in one,” said H. G. Wells in 1901.[1] When the use of stagecoaches tailed off thanks to competition from railways, Britain’s expensive turnpikes went through a period of…
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…cycle-only “side-paths”, it had 40 miles of wide boulevards, which bicyclists had almost to themselves: the well-surfaced boulevards were for “pleasure vehicles” only, horse-drawn wagons were only allowed on dirt…
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…roads, solo motorists in cars far outnumber both. Stevenage Borough Council’s defeatist Stevenage Cycle Strategy – not updated since 2002 but still on the council website – is in no…
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…and is nestled on the French Riviera, close to Nice. Since its Monte Carlo casino opened in 1863 it has been a magnet for high-society and well-to-do ne’er do wells….
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