Paul Luton

Graphic showing a 9 m wide track for metros can move as many people as a 175 m road for cars.

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars.

Even if those cars are electric.

And then there’s all the parking.

OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.

Choices.

Simple.

I keep renewing mine solely for that purpose.
Maybe a photo I'd not linked to driving would be sensible.

Two adults and three kids on bikes waiting at a junction

The joys and benefits of #LTNs captured in a single shot 📸

#Haringey #Tottenham #cycling

Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year Anti-bike arguments aren’t just frustrating—they’re outdated, inaccurate, and often repeated without a shred of evidence.

Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year.
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Not helpful.

Far easier than trying to predict what you will need a week away.

Further, steeper, greener: Implications from an electric bicycle mode choice model Electric bicycles are transforming the active mobility landscape, potentially increasing active mode uptake and delivering environmental and health benefits. This study examines electric bicycle mo...

STUDY: “This study examines electric bicycle mode choice and which modes they replace.”

“43.1% of electric bicycle trips & 63.2% of EB mileage would have been undertaken using a car if no e-bike had been available, highlighting their substantial potential to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions.”

People on board with new solution to Toronto traffic that would limit cars on city streets Fixing Toronto's gridlock is now so high on the political agenda that the Province is ripping out brand-new bike lanes in a misguided attempt to get …

"Paris started with periodic, strategic closures of key streets, then day-long closures of the entire city center, always in the context of the conversation about air quality, livability & noise…It's a very smart way of doing it." — @brenttoderian.bsky.social in BlogTO www.blogto.com/city/2024/12...

Worth getting the train to Toulouse for a day.

On a typical street, with parked cars, the door zone, and moving vehicles, there’s no safe space for other road users like people on bicycles. That’s why we need to get rid of street parking and turn the space into protected bike lanes.

A beginners’ guide to … road positioning for cycling Getting started with cycling on the road can feel a little daunting, but understanding road positioning can make a big difference in how comfortable and confident you feel

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Except the infrastructure for bicycles always existed - it was cars that took it over in the last 25 years, & then dominated it. The “cycle infrastructure” is now needed because of cars

Cycle infrastructure is car infrastructure

Strange that you say Versailles.
The rebels won the war of independence largely because of support from the French monarchy.

I dress pretty well the same for shopping or touring.
A suit is only for funerals.

A good alternative is to filter back streets so that they cannot be used by through motor traffic.
Creates a local cycling network at minimal cost.

If they are towpaths they were presumably designed for horses.

Are there useful cycle lanes ?

Unbelievable, how simple it is. Create connections between popular destinations and separate bikes from cars. Then you get a ton of usage.

#sandiego #bikesky #safestreets

A bonus of the Rhone route is getting a view of the scant remains of Cluny Abbey normally a bit away from the usual holiday areas.

Agree that long lead is the worst of options - dog on one side of path , owner on the other.
Sometimes it seems that the dog is the brains of the outfit. Hmm

Somewhat bemused by the 6 hrs 60 mins from Paris to Barcelona.

It shouldn't be off the lead on a shared path.

“International best practice offers a clear roadmap for action: invest in connected infrastructure, provide inclusive cycling support, embed public engagement in planning, focus on encouraging behavioural change, and commit to long-term investment and leadership.”

What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.”
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🎉 Happy Cycle to Work Day 🥳

🚲 With over 1.3 million cycle journey's in the capital a day, London is fast becoming a cycling city!

BUT... there's still work needed to make it a city safe for everyone to ride - join LCC today to support this vision 👉 bit.ly/3R38Pcd

Up to a point. Cameron gave the impression of a house-trained Tory and even that didn't turn out well.
Farage is a different matter.

If we built roads like we build cycle lanes (patchy, ending abruptly, forcing you into traffic) people would be up in arms after a couple of days. What the Dutch have done seems revolutionary, but it's just the logical consequence of treating bikes fairly. So let's do it here too.
#CycleToWorkDay

Excellent - should be standard for all new developments.

Salt Cross artists' impression

The Salt Cross garden village near Eynsham can be built to Net Zero standards after all. Planning inspectors have concluded the requirement is legally sound and consistent with national policy, after it was struck down by an earlier inspector and ruled out by the previous Conservative government.

Cannabis-using bus driver who fell asleep at the wheel and killed nine-year-old girl cycling on the pavement has “unduly lenient” prison sentence increased The Court of Appeal ruled this week that Martin Asolo-Ogugua will spend six years and eight months in prison for his “reckless and utterly selfish” driving, after originally being handed a four-year s...

“He must have appreciated from the outset that he was in no fit state to drive and what he was doing was therefore inherently dangerous”
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