Of course no matter what the cycling provision, some lobby group will come out to oppose them. Physical barrier makes complete sense, but brings out the anti-floating-bus-stop brigade. It's also only… (View Post)

Unfortunately across most public policy areas, and transport particularly so, carrots regularly fail - even when the money is available to provide them - because people's behaviour is highly path-dep… (View Post)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/may/09/how-80-forgotten-1930s-cycleways-could-transform-uk-cycling (View Post)

It's relevant because you want to argue that the average speed on non-SRN roads might be higher than the DfT think it is. You need to go very fast indeed on Rural B-roads to make up for the 17.4mph o… (View Post)

It probably turns out to be a lot less cycle friendly than it looks once you begin trying to do so. That's my experience. Places which put in place actual high quality cycling infrastructure tend to … (View Post)