Dad who rides a bike. Sharing the joy of riding with my son and daughter. Trying to make things better for those not-yet riding.
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4 Mar 2024
Hi @Sport_England do you have a position on Pump Tracks and Skate Parks. Are they venues for delinquency and drugs dealing? Or community assets that give young people opportunity to be social, active and outside?
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2 Mar 2024
There are lots of really sad things about this thread, but maybe the saddest is the reduction of trust in fellow humans that makes sealing a family off in a personal vehicle seem so necessary.
1 Mar 2024
My 5yo has a new friend at school & asked me to set up a play date.
I was texting with the parent & when we got to logistics the parent asked if I could pick the kid up.
They live 4 blocks (under .5 mile) away & I said we’d be happy to walk over.
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29 Feb 2024
Active Travel Twitter/X. Considering the plans in image A, can you provide any similar locations where markings or inlay is used through the junction (purple in image B) to help ahead cyclists (green arrow) with respect to left-hooks (orange arrow)? Thank you.
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29 Feb 2024
Okay, I see I need to be far more specific. Given the awful junction in image A. Is there anything we can salvage at a late stage under LTN 1/20 para 6.7.4
"Coloured surfacing may be useful in the following situations: Routes through complex junctions."?
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29 Feb 2024
Yes, this is polishing a turd, but its where we're at. Thanks in advance for any suggestions sent in good faith.
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19 Dec 2023
When I wrote this peice I was told not to speculate about the circumstances. Wait for the official reports they said.
cyclingdaduk.wordpress.com/2…
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19 Dec 2023
Sentencing was today. Young driver, twice the speed limit, over seer onto the cycle path, teenage rider "doing nothing wrong". No surprise to me having visited the location and seen the evidence markers.
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19 Dec 2023
Can we get angry now? Can we call for better, safer routes for teen cyclists yet? Can we ensure new drivers are properly vetted? Or only allowed in speed limited vehicles? Or do wait for the next death?
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Isla's family has issued a statement. They say that Isla had done nothing wrong & had no chance when the life to which she was entitled was taken cruelly from her. They are asking for mandatory speed limiters or recorders to be considered for all vehicles.
cambstimes.co.uk/news/240000…
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Oliver Nicholls, 22, has been jailed for almost 5 years for causing death by dangerous driving.
He had accelerated up to 71mph, three seconds prior to the crash that killed Isla Cochrane, 14, and was travelling around 54mph when he mounted the cycle path.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ca…
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28 Nov 2023
What joy it is to ride into Cottenham now. Path widened and turned to shared use from the village boundary into the village core. And then...
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28 Nov 2023
Yes get to a difficult junction, throw your hands in the air and give up. "Cyclist dismount" [we prioritise motoring here]. Did they even ask for bolder options @camcycle?
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28 Nov 2023
In Cottenham for the Local Climate Action Conference. Hoping to hear some great ideas to bring back to Histon & Impington Parish. #HIPC #ClimateAction
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15 Nov 2023
With his stanch support of private motor vehicle trips I can see no issue with @AnthonyBrowneMP appointment to Minister for Decarbonisation of Transport. Grim.
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14 Nov 2023
Driver angry that I swore in front of his kids. Maybe don't drive so dangerously around mine?
Likely deliberate. "People like you are the problem with Cambridge" and "swerving all over the road".
Aka riding a bike and taking primary position at a blind bend.
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9 Nov 2023
Is this a mapping problem, a signage problem or an idiot problem?
This is the second car I’ve seen go through the Busway car trap at Cambridge North this week & it seems to be a growing issue. It can’t be nice as a driver but it’s a pain for sustainable transport users.
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Finally, there is a narrow section of Milton where separate paths are not an option. On our website, we set out a few different solutions for this, including a 'cycle street' treatment near the shops.
Read more at camcycle.org.uk/blog/2023/11…
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ALT Visual of a cycle street where cyclists have priority and cars are guests.
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We'd also like to see separate paths on the new rural link between Milton and Waterbeach. Let's be bold and create a lovely new 'linear park' with added planting rather than squeezing leisure walkers and utility cyclists together.
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ALT Visual of a linear park with separate cycle and walking paths, and lots of trees.
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That's why we'd like to see a separate bi-directional cycleway installed from the Jane Coston bridge to Coles Road. This would deliver a better outcome for both cyclists and pedestrians – our friends at Cambridge @livingstreets agree.
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ALT Visual of Cambridge Road Milton with separate pavements and a bi-directional cycleway.
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