3 dead Austrian cycists under trucks in 5 days. It has been a terrible week for cycling in Austria. If there is anything positive to come of this then this statistical anomaly needs to be used to generate interest in reducing the number of accidents of this nature that happen. One of these accident is clearly a result of terrible design. The other 2 seam to be a simple inevitable result of mixing trucks and cyclists together. Here is some good last resort advice.

Hacking hard infra and soft info. We can learn from studies in high-cycling situations. Although, caution! When comparing it to low-cycling locations we must sometimes tread with care.

Maliciously bad cycle facilities - UPDATE. You probably saw my blog post about this maliciously bad cycle facility. Put in by Kent Highways during my time at University. I wanted to make an update because the understanding of what happened on Old Chatham Road has changed since my blog post. Really not acceptable, even if only temporary. However, since this is an experimental traffic order, it is up for consultation. Use this space, this space here! Used to be.

A blog about life and politics. Today Julia Hartley-Brewer has an article on Capx. The temptation is to think that Hartley-Brewer, far from cherishing democracy and wanting to protect and extend it, is m.

Who Are Civil Engineers? Tuesday, 4 August 2015. The New Iconic View Of London. As a suburbanite, I am one of those people who will say that I am going into London or I am going up town. Yes, those kerbs are still niggling me, TfL really needs to get its.