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Search results for: london cycleway network

Lecture on London Cycleway Network Planning

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Tom Turner — No Comments ↓

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

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Tom Turner — No Comments ↓

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…

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Costing and phasing London’s Cycleway Network

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Tom Turner — No Comments ↓

Should London’s cycling infrastructure be planned for a mode share of  9% or 41%? And when should the plan be implemented? The TfL 2018 London Cycle Action Plan is strong on intentions, vague on phasing and vague on costings. So here’s…

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Policy for London’s Quietways

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Tom Turner — No Comments ↓

London’s ‘quietways’ are not quiet enough. TfL explain them as: ‘continuous and convenient cycle routes on less-busy backstreets across London’. They are on backstreets. But they not continuous,  because there are so many unimproved junctions. Their convenience is for local trips:…

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Green the Redways: Copenhagenize the TfL Transport for London Road Network TLRN

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Tom Turner — No Comments ↓

    TfL should Copenhagenize London’s the TLRN (Transport for London Road Network. Copenhagenization means confiscating the warships of a defeated enemy, which is what the British did in 1807. Mikael Colville-Andersen uses ‘Copenhagenize’ to mean good cycle planning. I’ve been…

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Death on the TfL London Cycle Network in 2018

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Tom Turner — No Comments ↓

 This draft cannibalised for a post on cycle deaths The London Cycle Network LCN  is dead but unburied London cycling commissioner Will Norman declares in the video that ‘Cycling is very safe in London.’  But there are twice as…

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London Cycle Action Plan TfL: a review

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Tom Turner — No Comments ↓

The Guardian is too kind when it says the London Cycle Action Plan is ‘bold but has a major flaw’. It has many major flaws. But before looking at them let’s note the document’s good points: It acknowledges that London’s…

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Four step model for bicycle network infrastructure planning

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Tom Turner — No Comments ↓

 Traditional four step models provide a rational framework for transport forecasting (see Wiki). The 4 steps are trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice and route assignment. It is a predictive model and was often used to ‘predict and provide‘…

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16 Principles for Cycleway Network Planning

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Tom Turner — No Comments ↓

London is a great place to learn about planning cycle infrastructure Because it has made many mistakes and because of its recent success. It has learned what to do and what not to do. Drawn from London’s 84 years of…

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Planning a Mass Rapid Transit Cycle Network

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Tom Turner — No Comments ↓

The points in this post are illustrated in a short eBook on planning a Mass rapid transit cycleway network for London. It is available for free download at medium resolution (please contact us if you would like a high-res copy).…

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