Retailers – cyclists don’t just go shopping to buy another bike.
This morning, yet another planning application has been made for the Arena Retail Park in Coventry, where nothing will be done to change the existing woeful under provision of cycle parking. In this,...
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Time to see Coventry as a “One Garden City”
This is just a very brief introduction to a concept that needs more explanation elsewhere, but hopefully the idea is simple enough: Cities like Coventry have acres of green space, but much of it is...
View ArticleRoad Crime is just that, so let’s call it Road Crime
What is road crime? Road crime is any form of illegal activity that is conducted on the road, where the victims are other road users. It contrasts with “car crime” (or vehicle crime), where the victim...
View ArticleNotice of Discrimination Served on Coventry Council
Equality Act 2010: Notice of Discrimination [DRAFT – May 31 2016] Served on: Coventry City Council Served by: James Avery, Craven Street, Coventry Email: james@pedalparity.com Discrimination occurs...
View ArticleThe difference between shared space and filtered space
hopefully I can sum this up in a single tweet, because there is a lot of confusion going around, so here it is: FILTERED = thru traffic selectively removed to foster attractive streets SHARED = attempt...
View ArticleBus Stop bypasses FOI to Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust
In respect of the trust’s opposition to bus stop bypasses (BSBs), also known as floating bus stops: What research has the trust conducted, in order to determine that bus stop bypasses are unsafe? To...
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PM Carpentry of Coventry – a road criminal you should avoid
PM Carpentry of Coventry – are they any good with wood, are PM Carpentry of Coventry carpenter(s) you can trust? Frankly, I don’t know and that’s not my concern, although I can’t find them on any...
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Coventry Bus Lanes – Council admits it has done no research whatsoever!
Following a Freedom of Information Act request, Coventry City Council has revealed that to date, it has conducted absolutely no research whatsoever prior to its planned removal of bus lanes. This is...
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...
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 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...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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...
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 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 – 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 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...
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