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As already pointed out there needs to be wheelchair access elsewhere anyway, so I'd probably base a decision on whether to use the ramp or the stairs on whether I had a particularly heavy bike or panniers or trailer with me, and how much of a shortcut the stairs-with-gutter gave me. The height of t...

Haven't got gradient figures, but the railway steps I've used in Belgium, with bike gutter, seemed exactly the same as those here. Wheeling the tandem up and down them was easy enough though [even with panniers]. The trailer I had to unhitch and lug up separately, but TBH I was simply grateful for ...

[XAP]Bob wrote:Trailerw/trikes/wheelchairs?

Fair point and one I'd forgotten about and I own a trailer! Thanks
Also don't forget pushchairs

I think in the case in the photo that it was a new staircase and therefore easier to use shallower gradient.

I'd be interested to know if the Dutch use anything as steep as 50% for a new build.

I am seeking readers experiences with wheeling channels as found on footbridges. The reason is that I am commenting on a planning application which includes a new set of steps up frm a canalside path, not a towpath, to a bridge. The steps include a wheeling channel the angle of which is 26 degrees w...

My works is similar. We have bike boxes strategically placed around the site at various depts/offices. User/occupancy is counted at turned 9am in order to estimate if correct numbers of boxes are optimally placed, very good! But we had 4 boxes near my dept entrance and we have 5-6 users on differen...

In this case the opposite is true. There are more spaces than advertised.

I have discovered that London Midland (Train Operating company on the West Coast Main Line) don't count the number of bicycles or motorbikes parked at their stations. Their website is even incorrect about the number of cycle parking spaces at two of the stations near me. The fact that the parking is...

Has anyone tried using a hard top box like you get for motorbikes with a bicycle? The idea being it would provide somewhere to store a helmet etc when leaving a bike at stations.

I don't think you can really discount the students as part of the reason why cycling is successful in Oxford. They have been the core of the cycling culture there for decades. And you might equally say that cycle tracks wouldn't work, because you need 70 years of Dutch cycling culture to have the e...

I don't think you can really discount the students as part of the reason why cycling is successful in Oxford. They have been the core of the cycling culture there for decades. They even have registration numbers of their bikes! I think you may be thinking of somewhere else. Probably the same place ...

The main stats I look at are census journey to work - which excludes students because that doesn't count as work. Oxford's typical main road facility is cycle lanes. There are some tracks, but they're mostly peripheral. Honest. Well, you know Oxford better than I do as I only visit a few times a ye...

I'm not sure what point you are making. Any which way, car use is pretty low, and isn't semi-homicidal. When we cycle with small children, we take the quiet route; when they're a bit older (9+), we show them how to use the main roads (including how to take care around buses). When they're 11 they u...

I don't expect instant results but I do hope things are better in 10 years time. In 10 years time, oil prices will have risen and fuel duty will have fallen to keep motorists reasonably happy. To make up the shortfall in taxes, the increasingly popular transport mode of cycling will be taxed. Sorry...

What struck me about the article is that I don't remember reading such a candid article in Cycle before about why people won't cycle that didn't propose training of cyclists as the away forward. This article makes a pretty strong emphasis of the need to change the cycling environment both shared wi...