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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Death on the TfL London Cycle Network in 2018
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…
Posted in London cycle network, London Cycleway Plan
16 Principles for Cycleway Network Planning
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…
Four truths about London cycling
1. Cycling in London is unsafe. Everybody knows this. London has 3.6 times as many accidents/1000 cyclist commuters as Copenhagen. 2. The London Cycle Network did almost nothing for the safety of London cyclists. I therefore look forward to its…
Posted in cycleways, landscape architecture, London cycle network, London Cycleway Plan Tagged with: London Cycleway Network Plan
UK cyclists must campaign together for cycle infrastructure #Campaign4Cycling
Congratulations to Donnachadh Mcarthy. He organised a great pro-cycling demo on 13.10.2018 – and he’s dead right: much more of the transport budget must go on cycling infrastructure only a major national demo will bring this about. therefore all pro-cycling clubs…
Trafalgar Square has an amazing number of empty buses
I heard the head of a London bus company on the radio this week saying that cycle lanes should be de-segregated because they were only used during the morning and evening rush hours. He should have a look at 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…
Cycling infrastructure produces high benefits for low costs
Cycling infrastructure costs about 1/30th as much as railways and produces three times as much benefit/£1bn invested. Here are some figures £11m for 5km of CS6 (from Elephant and Castle to King’s Cross) = £2.2m/km £47m for CS3 (9.2…
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…
Funeral for the Unknown Cyclist
Please come and please invite your friends to come. Dreadful design and pitiful planning of the UK’s cycle infrastructure results in a per/mile injury rate that is four times higher than that in Denmark and Holland. Something must be done:…
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