Summary of the benefits from investing £6.2bn/year in cycling infrastructure for bicycle mass transit (1) Every town in the UK will have a safe and segregated Cycleway Network of the kind being built, far too slowly, in London (2) The …
40:1 Benefit:Cost ratio for cycling mass transport infrastructure Read more »
The bicycle began as the ultimate dream machine, cheaper, healthier, more exciting and more glamorous, than horse-drawn vehicles or horses. In the 1940s, almost half the trips in London and Copenhagen were cycled. And the figure was over was over …
Invest 20% of the transport budget to raise the cycling mode share by 2.5%/year Read more »
Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism by Mikael Colville-Andersen, Island Press, 2018, review by Tom Turner The great strength of this book is its focus on bicycle planning being an aspect of urban design. Illustrations support this point: the …
How to integrate cycling with urban design: Copenhagenize Read more »
‘Rapid transit system’ is a term used for rail, bus and cycle networks. For trips up to 5 miles (8 km) cycle networks transport more people in less time than rail or bus networks. eBikes operated on cycle networks further …
Sustainable Mass Rapid Transit by light rail, bus and bicycle: a comparison Read more »
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 …
Cycling infrastructure produces high benefits for low costs Read more »
The points I made at Peter Massini’s presentation of the Draft London Environment Strategy were: I’d like to give answers to your two of the CONSULTATION QUESTIONS at the end of the Green Infrastructure section of the 2017 Draft Environment Strategy: …
Landscape architecture comments on GLA Environment Strategy Read more »
The video gives a snapshot of London’s best and worst cycling conditions, hinting that the city needs more cycling heavens, fewer cycling hells and a lot less purgatory. List of 18 London cycling posts and videos. Cycleway planning and design are often regarded …
The landscape architecture of cycling and cycle planning Read more »
If you would like to do an assessment of the Thames Path as a cycle route, please retain your impartiality by doing the assessment before reading the post or watching the video. List of 18 London cycling posts and videos. [yasr_visitor_multiset setid=0] Having …
The Thames Path as a cycle route from the Tower to Greenwich Read more »
Motopia was a visionary urban design project, sponsored by Pilkington Glass and published in a 1959 book. As explained in the book’s Acknowledgements, the project team comprised Ove Arup, as engineer, Edward Mills as architect and Geoffrey Jellicoe as landscape architect …
Geoffrey Jellicoe urban landscape design for Motopia housing Read more »
Thank you to FOLAR for holding a seminar on the landscape architecture of Britain’s New Towns. The above video, which was my contribution to the event, celebrates the contributions of the Four Landscape Knights (Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Sir Frederick Gibberd, Sir …
The knights of landscape architecture who planned the British New Towns Read more »
