…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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…of how to cater for non-motorised transport. London catches up with the 21st century. At long last. Only 300yds so far but wow. Oh, and the sun’s out pic.twitter.com/omSqusluiD —…
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…the suffragette movement. Part of the fight for women’s rights was featured in The Wheels of Chance, a comic novel by author and noted cyclist H. G. Wells. His hero…
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…they? But apart from pneumatic tyres, ball bearings, and the roads… COMMANDO: Lightweight steel tubing. XERXES: Chain driven differential gears. COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh… COMMANDO #2: Dust-free highways. Tractors. Automobile…
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…Photoshop to create an image that showed what Jesmond Dene Road would look like should it become “armoured”. I sent a press release from the Friends of Jesmond Dene warning…
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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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…for passage, carriage, commerce and play. By limiting their function today, by sanitising them, we’re often guilty of the Disneyfication of streets, a problem explored by sociologist Sharon Zukin in…
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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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…University and an expert on traffic-free trails, the cycle infrastructure of Stevenage was designed to “produce maximum attraction, comfort and safety.” Cyclists were: “provided with their own segregated junction by…
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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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