Transport Initiatives

Same for us! Our domain is in our profile. Plus a couple of our team @ibikebrighton.bsky.social & @steveessex.bsky.social

17.03.2025 14:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A group of people, most with cycles, listening to a discussion between Andrew Gilligan (in red jacket) & Jono Kenyon (in dark blue jacket) in front of trees, Legible London monolith & road sign Great Eastern St

This was 10 years ago to the day, with #AndrewGilligan looking at what became #CS1 crossing of Old St/Great Eastern St maps.app.goo.gl/XaKH4apJwk1u...
Some familiar faces there incl @jonokenyon.bsky.social talking & I think @lauralaker.bsky.social as well, plus other @londoncycling.bsky.social folk🙂

17.03.2025 10:06 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Our report to City of York was approved by committee and the Council should be removing the first barriers now. Expect about 30 to be gone by early summer. They need to have removed enough by the Active City Conference in July to advertise their commitment to accessibility.

21.02.2025 09:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

York Access Control Barrier Review The Public Sector Equality Duty (Equality Act 2010) requires councils to: Eliminate unlawful discrimination Advance equality of opportunity between people who shared a protected characteristic and …

Hello Harrie. York Council asked us to review access control barriers in the city. The project manager was ken.spence@transport-initiatives.com (not on Blueshy) and a note on the project can be found here: transport-initiatives.com/york-access-.... There may be some synergy with your work.

20.02.2025 09:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thurrock LCWIP Route signing in Thurrock On 12 February 2025 Thurrock Council adopted its first LCWIP (Local Walking & Cycling Infrastructure Plan) – see Thurrock Cabinet decision on LCWIP. This was bas…

We're pleased to see #Thurrock Council cabinet democracy.thurrock.gov.uk/ieIssueDetai... agree the Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plan #LCWIP that TI has produced, with many proposals for #Walking #Wheeling & #Cycling improvements across the area transport-initiatives.com/thurrock-lcw...

14.02.2025 19:00 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A blue coloured cycle path snales alongside a road. The picture shows a pedestrian zebra crossing both road and cycle path. Tactile paving has been laid where the crossing and cycle path meet to guide visually impaired pedestrians onto the footway rather than the cycle path. Normally the ridges on 'tramline' paving should be straight but here they have cut the slabs and laid it as a curve.

At a recent Active Travel Design Course we give for the IHE tinyurl.com/28m28wdu we had a delegate from Gibraltar who gave us a tour of what they were doing. Here’s a report page showing curved ‘tramline’ tactile paving laid on a corner to reduce skid risk. Not as per guidance but interesting.

06.02.2025 09:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Though led by Ken Spence of @transport-initiatives.com actually!

17.01.2025 20:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A graph showing how 'walkable' a car park, a high volume road, a low volume road and a cycle & pedestrian path are. In terms of how attractive a place is for walkability a car park scores 34%, the roads around 70% and a cycle or pedestrian path 100%.

In studies comparing what shopkeepers and their customers want, parking is rated much more highly by shopkepers than customers. Here's a paper, tinyurl.com/nz8we6dd, (albeit American) that shows how parking negatively affects walkability, which as really what the shopkeepers should be wanting.

19.12.2024 11:39 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Dutch Style Roundabouts Briefing Note Fendon Road Dutch Style Roundabout, Cambridge Roundabouts with annular cycle tracks are very common in the Netherlands. However, the first ‘Dutch-style’ roundabout in the UK was only opened in 2020…

Transport Initiatives has been closely involved with the Cambridge roundabout and had an input to West Bar. The different designs work rather differently and we've written a note about them here: transport-initiatives.com/fendon-road-...

16.12.2024 15:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Mark Strong from Transport Initiatives runs us through Bike Share schemes. Even the seasoned Active Travel professionals that run Active Travel Café (for free) said this was a Tour de Force. If you're looking at a Bike Share scheme, this must be mandatory viewing"

TI is getting started on #BlueSky! For starters, here's the presentation given by our @ibikebrighton.bsky.social at @activetravelcaf.bsky.social last week
"If you're looking at a #BikeShare scheme, this must be mandatory viewing"
activetravelcafe.org.uk/node/142/ #Bikesky #Urbanism+

09.12.2024 20:06 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0