Cycling UK Forum

Here in Huddersfield, there is a Tandem Way, which leads to the Tandem Industrial Park.

Is this the case? https://road.cc/content/news/drunk-driver-told-he-was-cyclists-worst-nightmare-279907

A couple of days ago, I was driving home and wanted to turn right at a crossroads. Someone driving in the opposite wanted to turn right into the road on my left, so we had the usual "do we pass offside-to-offside, nearside-to-nearside, who goes first??" dilemma. The other driver then flash...

In my previous career, I commissioned and undertook plenty of traffic surveys. Accurately counting bicycles is relatively straight-forward on a bike-path, or similar, where bikes are the only vehicles. There are automatic counters available that can do this. Counting bicycles in a mixed traffic stre...

In future he sequence of event should be as follows: 1. East Riding Councillor Chris Matthews applies to Department of Transport for £868000 of public funds to construct a high quality cycle route. 2. Councillor Matthews awards the contract to PBS construction to construct a narrow footway and thro...

Does anyone have other examples of "Cyclists Dismount" signs on level crossings, whether straightforward or not? I recall one at this crossing: https://www.google.com/maps/@54.2988944,-1.5702115,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scNCC1h5lZKi9za10ozIeTw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 The current Stre...

My local Lidl (Holmfirth) has just replaced five Sheffield stands with five wheel-benders. Won't be going there again. .. Where do you shop instead, does your boycott cost you in time, cash, choice? Wish I had a lidl near home, I do have an aldi, it has wheel-benders I think, but I always walk ther...

Check your local planning policies and their permission. It would normally be a breach of conditions requiring secure standard parking here, which the local cycling campaign would report to the enforcement officers. On the case - our UDP did have minimum standards for cycle parking, but that has ju...

My local Lidl (Holmfirth) has just replaced five Sheffield stands with five wheel-benders. Won't be going there again.

I think I'll direct the store manager to this little video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... 7Ab7peOB50

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/electric-scooter-users-arent-wearing-helmets-the-head-injury-rate-proves-it My summary: Researchers found 249 cases in one year of injuries associated with electric scooters in cities where "many thousands of riders are using electric scooters every day&q...

There is also this paper;

Evaluating the demand for new cycle facilities, by P Hopkinson and M Wardman.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 0X96000200

It looks like you have to pay for it.

@FatBat That is a useful post - thanks. Could you post any links to how campaigners can do a 'Value-for-money' assessment that will satisfy a council looking at any proposal. Maybe orientate this towards a single campaigner i.e. an individual with limited time and money at their disposal. Things mi...

During my days as a Right-To-Ride rep, my day job involved performing Cost-Benefit Analysis for proposed transport schemes (ranging from a 1km road just outside of Grimsby, to the High Speed 2 rail project). When I was "consulted" as Right-To-Ride rep, my professional training kicked in an...

From a careful reading of this thread, I think I've reached the conclusion that one day it might be compulsory to have a bell fitted, but it would be illegal to ping it. Who said the House of Lords was out of touch with reality?

If it is true and I dont see why not, it will include a very large fraction of people who sustained other injuries that would have killed them if the head injury hadnt. The other big issue is the hypocritical bias to cycle injuries. No-one looks at any other group with the same detail as there is n...