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View ArticleSelecting the right camera
This is a test page about video cameras and using bike cams to report road crimes. Will an ad appear here after about 5 minutes? Testing the contextual response if this page is about bike cameras,...
View ArticleWelcome to Pedal Parity
Pedal Parity is a twitter handle I have previously used to tweet about the need for cycling to be given equal billing with other transport modes. Since then, I’ve changed to using @trafficanxiety. I...
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Vertical Sprawl – the Ultimate Definition
Vertical Sprawl – it’s a term used by some planners, and more often by opponents of higher density models of development, and some like to pretend that there’s no such thing, but I’d like to suggest...
View ArticlePM Carpentry of Coventry UK tries to take Youtube video down
I’ve just seen an old notification, telling me that somebody filed a privacy complaint about my video of PM Carpentry of Coventry using his mobile phone and driving at the same time. PM Carpentry of...
View ArticleBirmingham Airport Second Runway Plans – Candidates need to get real
Looking at the transport policies from the candidates of the three main parties, it’s clear that they all support Birmingham Airport’s second runway plans. Commenting from the point of view of aviation...
View ArticleCoventry PSPO is an embarrasment to the Labour movement
These comments are in addition to those already made by George Riches on behalf of the Coventry Cycling Campaign. My comments related primarily to the consistent failure of Coventry City Council to...
View ArticleCoventry Shared Space – how it actually works
This Youtube video shows how Coventry Shared Space actually works – pedestrians are completely subserviant to buses and other large vehicles: The post Coventry Shared Space – how it actually works...
View ArticleCoventry Bus Lanes – so many unanswered questions
As Coventry City Council marches full speed ahead with its drastic bus lane axe tomorrow, next week sees the final two sessions of the public inquiry into the local plan. Some fundamental questions...
View ArticleJayne Innes snaps back on cycling in bus lanes
In November last year, a last-ditch message was sent from the West Midlands cycling campaign chair David Cox, endorsed by Living Streets (largely a pedestrian lobby group) and the Campaign for Better...
View ArticleCoventry Bus Lanes and why Jayne Innes needs to save them
Open letter from David Cox re: Coventry bus lanes Dear Councillor Duggins and fellow cabinet members, I am Chair of Cycling UK nationally and convenor of the Bike West Midlands Network which links up...
View ArticleIf you have a disabilty, you have no right to cycle
At the end of May, I submitted a detailed complaint to Coventry City Council, highlighting multiple reasons why they were failing to protect vulnerable road users, in accordance with the Equality Act...
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Why I’m really not a cyclist!
In the last week I have been a passenger in a car, taxis, on buses, trains, planes and a ship. Professionally, I have had clients in the airline industry, and to a lesser extent in rail and car hire. I...
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Balancing the needs of all transport users
How often have we heard that our cities need to “Balancing the needs of all transport users”, when all this really means is that they are only thinking of car drivers – a strategy which can only mean...
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Let’s Nail the Cycling Hills Myth Once and For All
I’ll start this with the graph itself, and then go into a few notes below: Cycling – people won’t do it because of hills, right? Or more generally, the Dutch all cycle because “Holland” is flat? Yes,...
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Who is really being terrorised?
Who is really being terrorised on our transport networks on a daily basis? Is it tube or bus passengers worried that somebody may be plotting to blow them up? Hardly – our public transport network...
View ArticleGwaunmeisgyn Primary FOI
FOI to Gwaunmeisgyn Primary School after they refuse to discuss their victim blaming promotion of hiviz: FOI Request “Be Bright be seen competition” In respect of the following tweet, made at 8:17am on...
View ArticleFedex van driver tries to kill me – I want answers
Two weeks ago, on Saturday 20th August, on Midland Road, outside St Pancras station, a Fedex van driver made several lunges at me with his Fedex van, in a manner that was absolutely using his van as a...
View ArticleTrainists in the vestibule who can’t be bothered to find seats
Now as a trainist myself, I have always had a few gripes about my fellow train passengers, and if there is a “bingo card” of bad train user behaviour, then it’s certainly going to include things like...
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