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Rolling Around The Cote D'Azur

Posted by Tom Bailey on Tuesday, August 9, 2011,

blog This week's installment comes to you live from the South of France. To set the scene I'm currently sat on a campsite on the Argens River which looks kinda like an American trailer park with trees, except its around 1/3 each Dutch / French / English with a few Belgians and Germans thrown in. The Dutch sit at the top of the pecking order with the biggest caravans and most sophisticated bicycles, with the English and French underneath holding each other in polite mutual contempt. I've b...
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Building a Coastal Bike Grid

Posted by Tom Bailey on Thursday, July 21, 2011,

Next week myself and Karlonsea are off to see the Transport Officer Head Honchos for North Tyneside. We met the Councillor and Cabinet member for Transport a few weeks back, but these are the guys who really run things. In North Tyneside you are to some extent pushing at an open door with this sort of thing. Although the Transport Engineers are as car centric as anywhere else there are plenty of Council transport officers who know what a Dutch Roundabout is and are genuinely interested in ...

Building UK Cycle Infrastructure - Where it all goes wrong

Posted by Tom Bailey on Wednesday, June 29, 2011,

A few months ago I became embroiled in the design of a section of Newcastle Council's new "red" cycle route which runs through the city centre to the Tyne Bridge. The experience left me very disillusioned with the way that this sort of stuff is done, but at the same time convinced that the solution to getting things improved lies at a political level not in arguing with junior council officers on the ground. This gets technical but bare with me.

The "red" route is pretty low quality and...