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Archive for the 'Cycling' Category

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 […]

Cargo bikes

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Spotted near Fleet Street, London, on the same evening.

DIY traffic calming

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

How’s this for an innovative, low-cost DIY traffic calming measure? A stretch of rope laid across the street:

Our Man in Tirana posted this in July and noted that cars “almost always slow to a crawl when approaching” it.
There’s a whole collection of community initiatives to take traffic calming into their own hands at 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
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