Cycling UK Forum

"In the Netherlands the guidelines are clear: in the built-up area cycling must have priority over motor traffic and outside the built-up area it is the other way around" This doesn't fit with your statement: "The Dutch compared the relative safety of giving priority to cyclists or mo...

It does rely on drivers giving way which is something many/most British drivers don't do. HC modification needed?? The Dutch compared the relative safety of giving priority to cyclists or motors - and found the later to be significantly less dangerous - so now mark the give way markings to give pri...

He offers more of the same stuff we've seen for 20 odd years now, inconvenient and unusable cycle lanes which cyclists won't use and nobody will maintain. This is simply untrue. CB and his team (e.g. Brian Deegan) know how to design streets and cycle lanes so people want to use them. The main probl...

He offers more of the same stuff we've seen for 20 odd years now, inconvenient and unusable cycle lanes which cyclists won't use and nobody will maintain. This is simply untrue. CB and his team (e.g. Brian Deegan) know how to design streets and cycle lanes so people want to use them. The main probl...

Zwift has a 7 day / 25km free trial so you may as well install the programme on your computer and see if you can get it to work with your ANT+ dongle. I use Zwift, but I've not used the PC version. On an android phone it was really straight forward to set up so I'd expect the same for the PC version...

Wigan Royal Albert Edward Infirmary are setting up a field hospital in one of their car parks for COVID-19 patients. I don't think they've ever done that for flu. The Christie hospital in Manchester are preparing for the biggest crisis the NHS have ever faced.

An over reaction? No.

That is a perfectly valid comparison. It is EXACTLY THE SAME ROAD carrying EXACTLY THE SAME TRAFFIC - just at different points one slightly nearer to Macclesfield and one slightly nearer to Stockport. Certainly the most cycle friendly section of the whole Wilmslow Road cycle route - without the dan...

OK in that case let us perform a trial to see if you genuinely believe that conventional high speed roads benefit the blind. We will meet in Poynton at a busy time of day. I will bring a blindfold. First we will head a couple of hundred metres north of the shared space - you will put on the blindfo...

OK in that case let us perform a trial to see if you genuinely believe that conventional high speed roads benefit the blind. We will meet in Poynton at a busy time of day. I will bring a blindfold. First we will head a couple of hundred metres north of the shared space - you will put on the blindfo...

Do you also object to modal filters and active neighbourhoods? Not at all - that is what I have long been arguing for. Traffic reduction and speed reduction are the key to improving conditions for vulnerable road users which is why they are at the top of the hierarchy of measures. It is reversing t...

Noticable how cycling numbers have increased significantly in Manchester , where proper kerbs have been installed to inhibit vehicle encroachment. We need this generally. Oh dear, someone else praising Boardman's stupidly dangerous farcilities, which seem to be personally targeted at killing my dau...

The success in GREATER Manchester (though little has actually been built yet, there's >£350 million of high quality schemes moving forward that will enable more active travel) is down to the GM Mayor Andy Burnham appointing Chris Boardman as the walking and cycling commissioner and tasking him with ...

Hooray. £70 million/year for active travel. We're screwed.

The solution is obvious: deal with the fundamental problem that is the profligate use of the private car. This will be politically difficult but not impossible. If car use is not restricted to a far, far higher degree then the present range of ill-effects will not only continue to exist but increas...

Why bother when the problem is that planners get involved that are clueless and the main issue is that there's the perpetual push for segregated infra which is simply not the solution to increasing cycling on any significant level whilst not improving safety massively also! Already new and highly p...