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Cool maps showing an unsurprising result

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

mySociety.org have some cool maps showing travel times for central London. All maps show travel times to the the Department for Transport (DfT) office in central London.
This one shows areas where going by bike beats public transport if you need to get to the DfT office (note that all the areas that are not […]

Hungry cars

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

The Economist of 6th December, 2007 (full story, requires login) writes about U.S. subsidies for ethanol:

In other words, the demands of America’s ethanol programme alone account for over half the world’s unmet need for cereals. Without that programme, food prices would not be rising anything like as quickly as they have been. According to the […]

Cost and benefit

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The New Statesman had an article (in August) criticising the New Approach to Appraisal (Nata) rules for road building in the UK. Basically, Nata is a cost-benefit analysis framework for assessing proposals of road building projects, introduced by Labour in 1998.
The author comes down hard against Nata. He’s right in that some of the […]

Urban experience photo group on Flickr

Monday, October 29th, 2007

unraveled has put up an urban experience photo group on Flickr
Welcome to Urban Experience! We’re documenting the urban experience with a focus on information, design, interaction and usability.

Hackney pedestrian barriers

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Hackney, the London borough where I currently live, has removed some pedestrian barriers. Maybe they’ll remove even more; I don’t know. This is good news.
In case you don’t understand why this is good news, I’ve taken some pictures to demonstrate a typical effect of these barriers at a junction here in London.
The pictures are […]