Posted by Tom Bailey on Wednesday, November 9, 2011,
What to do about it? Newcastle Council apparently think that retail businesses will leave if the don't get free car parking, more on that latter. Kim Harding has suggested that the solution to getting more people on bikes is taxing car parking, I'm not so sure.
I'm convinced that the way to get large numbers of people shopping by bike is really quite straight forward. You take places where the majority of shoppers are already walking, you make them a bit more bike friendly, you put in a few...
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Posted by Tom Bailey on Monday, November 7, 2011,
This blog is inspired by a news article out in the regional press today entitled "Second Tyne Tunnel will transform the region, predicts project MD". For those not familiar with this project a second road tunnel has been built under the river Tyne which until now has served as a bottleneck on the A19. The A19 is a motorway in all but name that runs from North of Newcastle down to North Yorkshire.
Right now the new tunnel is open but the old one is closed for refurbishment, so it is still t...
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Posted by Tom Bailey on Monday, September 5, 2011,
This blog post stems in part from a chat I had with Cllr Ed Hodson the Cabinet member for transport in my neck of the woods, which has already on been described in Karl McCracken's blog. Although Cllr Hodson was probably not a natural political proponent of cycling, he did at least know what a set of panniers was.
I'd put Cllr Hodson's age as mid to late 60's, which means that he would have been born in the late1940's and grown up in a Britain where bicycle modal share although in decline w...
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Posted by Tom Bailey on Thursday, May 26, 2011,
The Coast Road Cycle Path
The Coast Road (A1058) is the 8 mile direct route between "The Coast" (Whitley Bay & Tynemouth) and Newcastle City Centre. Opened in the 1930's it was designed to serve suburban housing estates being constructed by the seaside and take a stream of traffic into the City, at the time there would have been very large numbers of cyclists using it. In the 1970's large sections of it were "upgraded" to grade separated dual carriageway. The planners at the time inten... 
