Lecture by Tom Turner on 23rd April 2018, the LI London Branch The Landscape Urbanism Design Method should be applied to the problem of giving London the Cycleway Network it deserves: for getting from A-to-B, the aim should be to…
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London cycleway network planning: 18 videos and blog posts
Please give Amazon-style *Ratings for: A2, A200, CS3 Cable St, CS3 Embankment, Quietway Q1, Thames Path, Sustrans NCN1, Sustrans NCN4, Sustrans NCN13. The themes of these videos are (1) planning for London cycling has been terrible, with the exception of the…
The London Cycle Network is a fraud
The London Cycle Network was planned by the London Cycling Campaign shortly after it was formed, in 1979, and approved by Ken Livingstone when he became leader of the Greater London Council in 1981. This led to some minor improvements…
London Cycle Network REVEALED BY 9 EXAMPLES
The London Cycle Network LCN is a prime example of tokenism (‘the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups’). It was an advertising stunt and a fraud. When mapped, it…
Cost Benefit Ratio Analysis for Cycling & Cross Rail 2 in London
In 2018 it was announced that the opening of Cross Rail 1 will be delayed by 12 months and that it will cost at least an extra £600m (up from £14.8 billion to £15.4 billion). In 2019 this will be…
London requires a Comprehensive Greenway Network for green transport and active leisure journeys
Greenways are a key aspect of landscape planning for London’s green infrastructure and the city has been building greenways since they were included in the 1943-4 Abercrombie Plan. They include medieval alleys, garden streets, shared streets, pedestrian streets, canal towpath…
Cambridge greenway cycleway planning, review by Tom Turner
Cambridge tops the lists for UK economic growth and cycle commuting. It is near the bottom of the list for car ownership. With 29% of trips done by bike it is far ahead of other UK cities but still behind…
London. There is no better place in the world than this wondrous city
In writing about London for Der Spiegel Christoph Scheuermann starts with three problems to which the landcape architecture profession can make a contribution. The crap weather, the traffic, the noise, the obscene amounts of money, the horrific rents, the Central Line during rush hour,…
East Central London Cycle Network: reviews, transport planning and landscape architecture
For most of the past half-century London’s cycle transport planners have had their heads in the sand. Instead of looking for desire lines which link origins to destinations, as other transport planners do, they have looked for underused ‘quiet’ roads and…
Sustrans National Cycle Network Route 1 – NCN1 on the Isle of Dogs
If you would like to do an assessment of the Isle of Dogs section of NCN1, please retain your impartiality by doing the assessment before reading the post or watching the video. List of 18 London cycling posts and videos. Sustrans planned…
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