…the great world of London.” The Old War Office: a history, Ministry of Defence, 10 December 2012, https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachmentdata/file/49055/oldwarofficebuild.pdf “I shall never forget the sight that met my gaze when I…
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…transport mode of the future. Nothing was allowed to stand in the way of progress. In the 1890s, no policymakers, no bureaucrats, no planners, no government ministers had any inkling…
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…he was a junior engineer in the Ministry of Transport in the 1930s, he wrote to the CTC asking for feedback on the London cycle tracks he had helped to…
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…cycling was the marvel of the age, with bicycles and tricycles offering a revolutionary, individualised form of transport and leisure that captivated those who could afford what were expensive and…
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…advertising. COMMANDOS: Ohh… REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough. COMMANDO #1: And central Government administration of roads. COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah… FRANCIS: Cars and planes. REG: Cars and planes?…
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…… for pedestrians.” (Most medieval historians would dispute this, stating that towns and cities relied on the goods transported hither and thither by small carts). Wells highlighted the previous importance…
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…created in the UK, and by British road engineers. There’s Stevenage, of course, the Dutch-style cycleway-network-that-time-forgot, but there are other examples, too, such as Livingston in Scotland. Both Stevenage and…
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…finding new areas to explore, digging out deeper and more convincing evidence to show that cyclists had far more influence on government road policies than previously thought. Not just previously…
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…here means the road surface, not the sidewalk] W. H. Delano, general manager for the Compagnie Générale des Asphaltes de France, which supplied Paris with its asphalt, wrote in his…
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Here’s the Chapter Eleven from Roads Were Not Built For Cars. Every word has been retained from the paid-for book but the illustrations have been replaced with adverts. The print,…
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