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Why pedestrians walk on the cycle paths

2 Comments Posted by on April 1, 2011

IMAG0436, a photo by Dave 42 on Flickr. When HGV’s choose to park on the pavement is it any wonder that one of the few separated cycle paths in Leicester gets used by the pedestrians (despite the appalling trip hazard the edges of the concrete slabs make). This is alongside the Melton Road in Leicester.

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Transforming cities

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 14, 2011

This video demonstrates the way a city centre can be transformed for better. I visited Copenhagen many times over nearly 20 years from the mid 1980′s so I have seen how nice the city centre was but how much better it got as speeds were brought down over a wider area and how more facilities [...]

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Leicester City Council cause outrage in our home

19 Comments Posted by on February 9, 2011

I have been writing to Leicester City Council about the total lack of any provision for pedestrians or cyclists at a major junction (Melton Rd/Troon Way). For background see Cyclists and Pedestrians failed by Leicester City Council « 42 Bikes. Today I got a response to my last email (and my thanks to John Dowson for [...]

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Leicestershire highway maintenance block cyclists again

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 8, 2011

Today they were replacing a sign on the A6 between the A46 and Rothley. So this being Leicestershire they completely blocked the shared pedestrian/cycle route for most of the day with no provision at all for pedestrians and cyclists. After all this is only a dual carriageway that is used as a racetrack and of [...]

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Cyclists and Pedestrians failed by Leicester City Council

8 Comments Posted by on January 27, 2011

Back in November I wrote Bad road junctions #1 Leicester A607/A563 and said that I had emailed the appropriate people in Leicester City Council. I have now had a reply (apparently it was first sent on 5th January to the wrong email address). It includes this: Thank you for enquiring about pedestrian and cycle facilities at [...]

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What cars do to us

4 Comments Posted by on January 20, 2011

I have written before about the effect our car culture has on a number of aspects of our lives such as The war on Children. Today as I rode to Starbucks I was thinking about another set of effects on us. The practical problems are obvious (death of pedestrians and cyclists, especially of children; congestion; obesity; pollution [...]

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Do It For The Children

9 Comments Posted by on January 11, 2011

Following an impassioned post by David Hembrow in  Stop the Child Murder Karl has written Do It For The Children in which he notes: Now the killer fact: In the UK, providing your child doesn’t have an inherited / genetically based disease (congenital defects, child cancers, etc), then the thing that is most likely to kill [...]

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