tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46374608659531827012024-02-29T21:41:25.019-08:00CycleAndWalkHackneyCycling and walking in Hackney. A personal viewICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-74314385701695937732023-07-04T09:55:00.002-07:002023-07-04T10:02:26.586-07:00 Is cycling becoming safer in London?<p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Cycle campaigners assert that safer streets will lead to more cycling, more cycling to safer streets. The question is whether this approach adopted initially by Mayor Johnson, and followed by Mayor Khan is delivering either of the desired outcomes. Is there more and safer cycling? Have the millions spent on cycling infrastructure been a good investment? Most importantly what should actually be done to improve road safety for Londoners on their streets.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Below I demonstrate, using Transport for London and DFT’s best kilometres cycled and collision data, that since 2017 (much of the segregated cycle tracks were put in from 2016), cycling has become not more, but less safe. There are more killed and serious cyclist injuries (KSIs). What is more, using the best data available, the rate of KSIs per km cycled has also increased. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The previous Mayor of London introduced a gold standard cycle count to monitor his cycling vision. He established an annual count at over a thousand sites across the whole of Greater London, representing every road type and off road route type. The count, taken manually during the spring months, gives a reliable estimate of total kilometres cycled. The count started in 2015 and continued (though with some discontinuity) through the pandemic. The data is published in the <span style="color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/travel-in-london-reports">Travel in London 15 data workbook</a>.</span> The latest data represents kilometres cycled in 2022. There is a note regarding some uncertainty during 2021. The count has a limitation in that it is a Monday to Friday count only.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A chart derived from these counts is shown below, and represents a good estimate of weekday kilometres cycled.</p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGtHgNF7rcu9JUcbuBmtnIYidjgPzFdfOJghQKX87Vd9soSfb4PrRfT-QRy4hKCjwgDHJ6bKfklDFXIdSxxCDvvuV3xA65rtRhdOApHGrdlmuEHe-ZLhLLENnl4-z8NYndC-hlmUrgsNbmlyYITccngUAVz7mjW0GRVyvoOoicV07n36RJoRZ4n8rMhKg/s2102/IMG_1915.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1202" data-original-width="2102" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGtHgNF7rcu9JUcbuBmtnIYidjgPzFdfOJghQKX87Vd9soSfb4PrRfT-QRy4hKCjwgDHJ6bKfklDFXIdSxxCDvvuV3xA65rtRhdOApHGrdlmuEHe-ZLhLLENnl4-z8NYndC-hlmUrgsNbmlyYITccngUAVz7mjW0GRVyvoOoicV07n36RJoRZ4n8rMhKg/w400-h229/IMG_1915.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So much for kilometres cycled. Turning now to casualties. Road casualties are recorded by the Metropolitan and City of London police and reported by the Department for Transport. The data is a national statistic endorsed by the Office of National Statistics. The most common data set used as a benchmark is Killed and Seriously Injured (KSI). </p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It should be noted that:</p>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This data is subject to under reporting at lower levels of injury severity. </li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Since 2016 police forces have changed their methodology in assigning injury severity which increased the number assigned as serious</li></ol>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I have used post 2016 data. TfL publish this data including provisional data for 2022 <span style="color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMTIzYzRiZDMtZDZiYS00OWYyLTk3YTQtN2RkMGNiZTRmOTJkIiwidCI6IjFmYmQ2NWJmLTVkZWYtNGVlYS1hNjkyLWEwODljMjU1MzQ2YiIsImMiOjh9">here</a></span>.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>And as the data on kilometres cycled is only collected Monday to Friday, the chart below includes only weekday KSIs.</p></span><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkp0lmeaL-tvvxMW_1YyUX9O97XV9fkCXZg_ZgNt2hGWaZ2SJqDMZvNdX9d2TdC45OrOGVteJWb0z9GNGtqzzbsT5Kl8DNVPM1lFSVBhhPd3TWs7KewS3Iv5ffgIhs3wR_01McQytbMPp3JeMwEplnnm-1oC9vShHN4YCKZ7eDFN5ubnwg7c3FtD_yfro/s2214/IMG_1914.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1303" data-original-width="2214" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkp0lmeaL-tvvxMW_1YyUX9O97XV9fkCXZg_ZgNt2hGWaZ2SJqDMZvNdX9d2TdC45OrOGVteJWb0z9GNGtqzzbsT5Kl8DNVPM1lFSVBhhPd3TWs7KewS3Iv5ffgIhs3wR_01McQytbMPp3JeMwEplnnm-1oC9vShHN4YCKZ7eDFN5ubnwg7c3FtD_yfro/w400-h235/IMG_1914.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The number of Weekday KSIs has risen substantially since 2017 from 555 to 784 in 2022. This is a 42% rise. (Note: the 7 day rise is 50% up on 2017).</p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">By any measure this increase in KSIs is significant. However there are those in the cycle campaign lobby who suggest that the only figure that matters is the rate of casualties per kilometre cycled. I’d argue that both the absolute numbers and the rate per kilometre are important. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So let’s consider the rate per kilometre. There are six years worth of excellent data that show kilometres cycled and number of KSIs . The relative changes in this data can be represented on a single chart by indexing both sets of data to 1 for 2017. It is clear from the chart below that KSIs are increasing at a greater rate than kilometres cycled. In other words there are both more cycling KSIs and more cycling KSIs per kilometre cycled</p></span><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNbh9nDQl93TKk8NHXTOmv6znw9ot-RBZ45v3yjVItvBH3YK6beZ_tAF3erT6ErN3TVCUU3dYcpDCdlaKokOXFVxQ1S49L_NS5ZEYgmqnvRUckQtINoA1MbO9c-5ZZJqpNz5wF8zdGLsyOFLSmKb6QlNib-USEBZ9NS-nnh4sywmQ1ZXuBb-0FhQsYfqM/s2195/IMG_1913.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="2195" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNbh9nDQl93TKk8NHXTOmv6znw9ot-RBZ45v3yjVItvBH3YK6beZ_tAF3erT6ErN3TVCUU3dYcpDCdlaKokOXFVxQ1S49L_NS5ZEYgmqnvRUckQtINoA1MbO9c-5ZZJqpNz5wF8zdGLsyOFLSmKb6QlNib-USEBZ9NS-nnh4sywmQ1ZXuBb-0FhQsYfqM/w400-h211/IMG_1913.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Millions of pounds of public money has been spent. Cycling as a mode has received all the policy attention. All other transport modes have been neglected including London’s bus services and the walking environment. (Many disabled people can no longer use their bus service). In spite of all the attention, cycle safety per kilometre cycled is not improving, and it appears to be getting less safe to cycle altogether.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What should be done? Prior to the 2013 Vision for Cycling TfL had a data-led approach to road safety, and casualties were demonstrably reducing. At that point TfL were on the cusp of a safe-systems approach. Since then Mayor Johnson did little to improve road safety. He did support work on commercial vehicle design and compliance. Subsequently Mayor Khan’s slower speed initiatives will have reduced casualties as also will the continuing work on direct vision for commercial vehicles. However, the blind faith in, and single focus on, shoehorning in segregated cycle tracks is neither delivering safer cycling, nor is it delivering much greater numbers cycling. </p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The campaign and slogan led approach of cycle campaigners should be set aside and a data-led approach to road safety should be adopted once more. The focus of road safety should be based on analysis of the causes of casualties. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As for getting substantially more people cycling - <a href="http://cycleandwalkhackney.blogspot.com/">read my blog</a>.</p><div><br /></div></span><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-39938725205861576332023-01-16T06:13:00.000-08:002023-01-16T06:13:21.152-08:00The Balls Pond Road cycle lane, how ‘safe’ is it for bicycles?<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The cycle lobby has managed to persuade non-cyclists, who make up the overwhelming majority of the population, that cycle lanes improve road safety. They now call them ‘protected’ cycle lanes. But this is hugely overstating the case for cycle lanes. One such lane is along a short section of Balls Pond Road on the Hackney, Islington border.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Previous coordinators of Hackney Cycling understood the problems of cycle lanes. The one along the Balls Pond Road would be a bi-directional lane, (which are known to be problematic) and would only cater for cycles crossing the road on Cycle Superhighway 1, north to south via a dog-leg. It would make cycling more complicated for westbound cycles on Balls Pond Road and disadvantage eastbound cycles that had previously used the extant bus lane.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">However, the wider London Cycling Campaign lobby and Andrew Gilligan determined that it must be built. The bus lane “wasn't used” said the vociferous cyclists. The effect on bus passengers didn’t count. There were delays in the scheme getting the go-ahead, but years of lobbying led to this 100metre bi-directional lane being built in October 2020 using plastic poles in the carriageway.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Recently, cycle lobbyists have made a fuss about the necessary closure of the Kingsbury Road bridge on the route of Cycle Superhighway 1. Islington Cycling </span><span style="font-family: arial;">have made a bold statement in a tweet about road safety.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggecK1qvpYfJSXNPh5tfj4duix8qqX0034113Cj4WAUvpysoF2GKBGvh3yYq1qkdMiZWf889nuy10oXFwsdgWdtI3bdt-9icb--Wvv4kmNAzPWGG3ISZNROctzAA4tFz8m39Uf5_t5zgctfZxIBqC6GFv2bXDlhyF3nqU6XWgYl7h2dL-pJ3xCLrqp/s1310/4C4BDECC-51C0-418D-B3C0-B133E0963D17.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1310" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggecK1qvpYfJSXNPh5tfj4duix8qqX0034113Cj4WAUvpysoF2GKBGvh3yYq1qkdMiZWf889nuy10oXFwsdgWdtI3bdt-9icb--Wvv4kmNAzPWGG3ISZNROctzAA4tFz8m39Uf5_t5zgctfZxIBqC6GFv2bXDlhyF3nqU6XWgYl7h2dL-pJ3xCLrqp/w400-h214/4C4BDECC-51C0-418D-B3C0-B133E0963D17.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And so I thought I would take a look at the TfL published collision data*</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Below is TfL’s mapping of collisions from 2017 to August 2022. So there are 45 months of data before the cycle lane construction and 22 months after. In that time there have been seven injuries to cyclists, three slight injuries before construction and four afterwards (one serious and three slight). This equates to more than double the collisions per year!</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRdg9yI_LD1a10oE8kGCluPMl5Mrb0ieB7vCHWh3q2FFw6mCGwUFSLQW7C4uEVnjsAF2u2_SFCe7zBEruGdToy2JBdOI1NbsaRz5aRiFkGhOYq6QxymAGTcuib6JV7OtmlIxUSRDhRl0j-za-kRDHLokLMqu1ExTTjO-C7wYhO14U7haBsz58xvGl/s2360/63AE0DD1-088E-4F12-B11F-149411CCE2E3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="2360" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRdg9yI_LD1a10oE8kGCluPMl5Mrb0ieB7vCHWh3q2FFw6mCGwUFSLQW7C4uEVnjsAF2u2_SFCe7zBEruGdToy2JBdOI1NbsaRz5aRiFkGhOYq6QxymAGTcuib6JV7OtmlIxUSRDhRl0j-za-kRDHLokLMqu1ExTTjO-C7wYhO14U7haBsz58xvGl/w400-h224/63AE0DD1-088E-4F12-B11F-149411CCE2E3.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="font-size: x-large; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">Alongside the mapping, TfL publish the dates and other details of the collisions.</span></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcvljZCdHRnYKoqrg8w0ipiUUjOGcwoALpRuxlG_k58-MXu7mtOcF7H6dMZ1N8wCwwySSB205Q-V2U4vVx1kMwuH_mMw_BUtGYMu4e8Bn3uB5v_LDElC4oGJCy0BIB3iNJyEGlCrFOVyBXB-qo6m3m1Inwss1g8ub60T2dd3NbOX0941T0L_bWxD0/s2360/D619FBFA-B64A-4279-92B1-60259E2E4962.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="2360" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdcvljZCdHRnYKoqrg8w0ipiUUjOGcwoALpRuxlG_k58-MXu7mtOcF7H6dMZ1N8wCwwySSB205Q-V2U4vVx1kMwuH_mMw_BUtGYMu4e8Bn3uB5v_LDElC4oGJCy0BIB3iNJyEGlCrFOVyBXB-qo6m3m1Inwss1g8ub60T2dd3NbOX0941T0L_bWxD0/w400-h116/D619FBFA-B64A-4279-92B1-60259E2E4962.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPzfRg03cx7lXCtKkea1_99NaVfE-YnOXh69Qmp-2ooT6k7Or0m_pgxFzYgYpDvJxxU2nDbVDgojdeUyKNdyDDJrQe_jdp4_2C2u7IvcVAvyqmo197OB2A_anGlYk2OS2aGbUEcB81ktZ9I0nq5E_LmW1Prf4I9WSQ4-nbiOK5C0AkbaI_yXECvE2d/s2348/AFBF68C8-0538-482B-8474-28106FECA399.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="2348" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPzfRg03cx7lXCtKkea1_99NaVfE-YnOXh69Qmp-2ooT6k7Or0m_pgxFzYgYpDvJxxU2nDbVDgojdeUyKNdyDDJrQe_jdp4_2C2u7IvcVAvyqmo197OB2A_anGlYk2OS2aGbUEcB81ktZ9I0nq5E_LmW1Prf4I9WSQ4-nbiOK5C0AkbaI_yXECvE2d/w400-h110/AFBF68C8-0538-482B-8474-28106FECA399.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>There are multiple factors that might explain this huge increase in cycle injuries. The cyclists will point to some additional cycle journeys. The anti road closure campaigners will cite additional traffic. Both are valid, to a degree, but neither, realistically explains the scale of the increase in casualties.</span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The reason for the increase in collisions will, in part, be because of the cycle lane, and particularly the two-way nature of its junctions at Kingsbury Road and Culford Road with Balls Pond Road. This, together with the narrowing of the carriageway, (which exposes cyclists westbound on Balls Pond Road to closer passing vehicles), makes a mockery of claims about ‘safer cycling’</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If one considers all injuries, not just cyclist, along this short stretch of road, there were 13 in total. 5 before construction of the bike lane, 8 after in the same time period described above. There were two serious injuries. One being the previously observed cyclist and the other a pedestrian, both after construction of the bike lane. So, again, a much worse collision record.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOFqis8maBwcYcANtHhCyWpqWb-VqPu4dghqEPACf35CIfPRBXXF3uxrTlhSM7G3YUSvMrR_vCP74w0pj1h5i1IqWZjJXWbybnnAgoehbq-jIm87NphnNdgA-y1yHPGv0Kjmjr4-Ehk7awD-fTK-TpmXtBEjmCKlI8EzGuja4xjLR4X2jw1Bx64HA_/s2360/DBF4EDA6-94BA-4B30-AE38-53A26C13FC3A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="2360" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOFqis8maBwcYcANtHhCyWpqWb-VqPu4dghqEPACf35CIfPRBXXF3uxrTlhSM7G3YUSvMrR_vCP74w0pj1h5i1IqWZjJXWbybnnAgoehbq-jIm87NphnNdgA-y1yHPGv0Kjmjr4-Ehk7awD-fTK-TpmXtBEjmCKlI8EzGuja4xjLR4X2jw1Bx64HA_/w400-h188/DBF4EDA6-94BA-4B30-AE38-53A26C13FC3A.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To conclude. This cycle lane may well be linked to there being more collisions than prior to its construction. It may give a sense of protection for cyclists, but in fact is less safe. Traditional data-led interventions would be much more beneficial to cyclists and mean both more and safer cycling.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p>* <a href="https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNzgyZTc0ZmYtMjlmOC00ZGFmLWJmNzMtZWJkMjdhMDU4MGY1IiwidCI6IjFmYmQ2NWJmLTVkZWYtNGVlYS1hNjkyLWEwODljMjU1MzQ2YiIsImMiOjh9">https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNzgyZTc0ZmYtMjlmOC00ZGFmLWJmNzMtZWJkMjdhMDU4MGY1IiwidCI6IjFmYmQ2NWJmLTVkZWYtNGVlYS1hNjkyLWEwODljMjU1MzQ2YiIsImMiOjh9</a></p><p><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p>ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-7410234782346031032022-12-23T01:14:00.000-08:002022-12-23T01:14:26.578-08:00TfL’s London wide cycle count - What can it tell us about cycling in London? Part 3, inner London<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is the third of three blog posts analysing TfL’s London wide cycle count.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The count has been running since 2015 and is divided into central, inner and outer London, with over 1000 sites across London, and over two million items of data. It is designed to estimate the volume of cycling for the whole of London and so has some limitations when considering individual sites and counts. Nevertheless, it provides a fascinating insight into, and compelling evidence of, what is happening to levels of cycling in London.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the previous analyses it was clear that central London cycle levels declined between 2019 and 2021, whilst in outer London cycling increased somewhat. But the forecasts of a 10 fold increase, propaganda suggesting 200% rises from the Mayor of London and his cycling Commissioner, Will Norman are demonstrably wrong.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>The data is available at: </span><a href="https://cycling.data.tfl.gov.uk/">https://cycling.data.tfl.gov.uk/</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Inner London</span></span></div><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tfl has previously reported the change in volume of cycling between 2019 and 2021 in its annual statistics report, Travel in London 14, as a rise of 4.6% in inner London using this data. In the most recent Travel in London 15 report there isn’t a figure, but from a chart in the report, they look to have increased their estimate to about 10%. Below is an analysis of the inner London count, which shows some growth in inner London between 2019 and 2021, but again no ‘boom’.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">There are 650 inner London count sites. The counts have been undertaken every spring since 2015 except in 2020 when, because of Covid, a subset of sites were counted in the autumn. Only Mondays to Fridays are counted for a 16 hour day, 6am till 10pm*. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Below is an image from the TfL report showing the count sites.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierpssdlA3tsqlfiRLROIoOVodOYr9TyRrK4-FptBsD3FLgcvAJ6cxn4xEwnyJKHIgSn8pw6Y6FrHij-Mm945idyUUaNhFfp_VL-eEp-sk6zUCBwZp_5V8hbGRZnHVM8PKYknrrHr9fMqGUmUEFkbRalRoQ0u1HBKkbhrvW10ZZpZPqhzICxKm0NK3/s1387/48ED9F18-5E81-49C5-8A0F-FA1F357CCAB6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1387" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEierpssdlA3tsqlfiRLROIoOVodOYr9TyRrK4-FptBsD3FLgcvAJ6cxn4xEwnyJKHIgSn8pw6Y6FrHij-Mm945idyUUaNhFfp_VL-eEp-sk6zUCBwZp_5V8hbGRZnHVM8PKYknrrHr9fMqGUmUEFkbRalRoQ0u1HBKkbhrvW10ZZpZPqhzICxKm0NK3/w640-h485/48ED9F18-5E81-49C5-8A0F-FA1F357CCAB6.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Looking at all the counts, the median shows the central change between 2019 and 2021 was an 11% increase in cycles.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_hEWwOggkfhssP_Wb-4iR_a-_BKoF9s9HAdy1PLJFxTTYS1_cTAqyqUv73dZzQbPvZj1Fvny6gI5poM3uJEWk6Yxi7eKvVEXHA3TvvPxJC3P3lgPdJZwuKSfzaYvoddlVwuT5vC5oHrEP0ZOU8kL9PJBbjxKZupr4CAlt33aFrsSZlTjsULXoTfCN/s1529/C4B6C680-BEC2-4BF2-B072-69332F9F0A06.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1143" data-original-width="1529" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_hEWwOggkfhssP_Wb-4iR_a-_BKoF9s9HAdy1PLJFxTTYS1_cTAqyqUv73dZzQbPvZj1Fvny6gI5poM3uJEWk6Yxi7eKvVEXHA3TvvPxJC3P3lgPdJZwuKSfzaYvoddlVwuT5vC5oHrEP0ZOU8kL9PJBbjxKZupr4CAlt33aFrsSZlTjsULXoTfCN/w640-h478/C4B6C680-BEC2-4BF2-B072-69332F9F0A06.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>An interesting set of counts is of the inner London bridges because they effectively route all cycle traffic over a wide area onto the same road to give a more consistent count over the years. Hammersmith Bridge was not counted in 2020.</span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikzqE1kY0SJc9w-YQK4Yh2gnjtJGefd6N9VC7kvqESzA8eZv1p_q8QHl1EzXBkv8zsQChSlHRM1dcYkUJD_tQLxgzJ-_XCHT2Wg3jO2OGkMfRBPZmkfVSn1rzRRb2XzOguA4cPI9XHXKf710Tkrhk79Sw0FIQ_TbAwH85p6JM2inen298Q_uuG2PlD/s1443/A813DB2A-1E6B-4901-8B93-0998FEBEE9D6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="1443" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikzqE1kY0SJc9w-YQK4Yh2gnjtJGefd6N9VC7kvqESzA8eZv1p_q8QHl1EzXBkv8zsQChSlHRM1dcYkUJD_tQLxgzJ-_XCHT2Wg3jO2OGkMfRBPZmkfVSn1rzRRb2XzOguA4cPI9XHXKf710Tkrhk79Sw0FIQ_TbAwH85p6JM2inen298Q_uuG2PlD/w640-h414/A813DB2A-1E6B-4901-8B93-0998FEBEE9D6.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">The most interesting of the individual sites are the busiest cycling streets. Comparing 2019 with 2021 for the busiest 10 inner London counts in 2019 shows a spread of change from an increase of +33% (Kingsland Road) to a decrease of -61% (Chelsea Embankment).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpG75sfNalai1eSXLQdu-NY5pnhwm4Es2mu0EfjBKcBD9ZzAcuKzOp948gf1qGNtZyKFEsphBNWegqrfdFNnaDPqX5Q5g8IGcIUZU7uDqMQRK-AZmWD0ZeN9zR6OIgXtVJUn9FMCVc24urIfGX4h_7fE83uvhU4TzdQKf94BWNcTsahyAHdT7lmZz0/s2212/C6683B37-DFD2-4875-A6DC-2E0B0C80C9A7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1332" data-original-width="2212" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpG75sfNalai1eSXLQdu-NY5pnhwm4Es2mu0EfjBKcBD9ZzAcuKzOp948gf1qGNtZyKFEsphBNWegqrfdFNnaDPqX5Q5g8IGcIUZU7uDqMQRK-AZmWD0ZeN9zR6OIgXtVJUn9FMCVc24urIfGX4h_7fE83uvhU4TzdQKf94BWNcTsahyAHdT7lmZz0/w640-h386/C6683B37-DFD2-4875-A6DC-2E0B0C80C9A7.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">It is interesting in the era of ‘working from home’ to look at the amount of commuting as a a proportion of daily cycling. Below the chart represents the morning commute measured as the count</span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"> between 7am and 10am compared to the whole day. All commuting (to and from work) will be double this percentage.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Of course leisure cycling is a good thing, but it doesn't generally contribute to congestion reduction at the peak hours which is a key issue for cities.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw6dKi4-UsfKi_kkyE0dTCxS05bFbS8PJJUxOWl6QLTdfIwwypCVLjMBK1yDa7ltRZiz7F530BjJxVz5XHm8eOofYEkHm6G2mUJdpoh-MPIWP3CKycJMnVxDryqlmXFDfH7rgSIRyvuuyRXj_oTXD6YMbs54Plf5QWmlK8QtbhslvbibnuUgxA2Zim/s1659/3A31F091-9F52-4D35-8041-37B9678B6C01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1263" data-original-width="1659" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw6dKi4-UsfKi_kkyE0dTCxS05bFbS8PJJUxOWl6QLTdfIwwypCVLjMBK1yDa7ltRZiz7F530BjJxVz5XHm8eOofYEkHm6G2mUJdpoh-MPIWP3CKycJMnVxDryqlmXFDfH7rgSIRyvuuyRXj_oTXD6YMbs54Plf5QWmlK8QtbhslvbibnuUgxA2Zim/w640-h488/3A31F091-9F52-4D35-8041-37B9678B6C01.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Hackney has a uniquely high mode share for cycling and so is especially interesting. Below is the chart of all its inner London count sites. Particularly striking is the high levels of cycling on the A10, that many from the new cycle lobby say is too scary to cycle on!</span></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0_Bl-MI18oFQzYx1b1mZAD5iJJd3ZFOl3uRdTnIjMGMbAD5SW5XAGPbbn8yaYbgb93Pkr-xcF323xzMbuYwwu0Mj4hJRT5eYXn4TNG8RWX5ea11HmaGHemfN4gzYWRDb25KBLAhUMA_SCqccHBnlWa2Z5WWOZWLzS4XaZmQWk6IZHSAwRJpP2S2l/s1838/4D019AD0-46E0-4865-9130-C2A5349FDDD9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="1838" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0_Bl-MI18oFQzYx1b1mZAD5iJJd3ZFOl3uRdTnIjMGMbAD5SW5XAGPbbn8yaYbgb93Pkr-xcF323xzMbuYwwu0Mj4hJRT5eYXn4TNG8RWX5ea11HmaGHemfN4gzYWRDb25KBLAhUMA_SCqccHBnlWa2Z5WWOZWLzS4XaZmQWk6IZHSAwRJpP2S2l/w640-h374/4D019AD0-46E0-4865-9130-C2A5349FDDD9.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Selecting roads that have been nominally improved for cyclists and comparing these to the TfL road, the A10 through Hackney, its difficult to make a case that the lines of plastic poles on Green Lanes and Queensbridge Road have made any difference to cycling levels.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWPk_TKaZfqbjufk49fSv6tYuKFPnbc5-a_4W7mpBkY-lPc6fSkT_m4sIBNfJ9q-ISE896GWeWs1PkhcKxpZD3MewZm5vUJyOtxqevih5SHYj6rFQmTBlH-1676hC5N9Kmq9g0XXNBuVObRrq7GkJAKFF-kq52NGdHVwhtMZOsgBTqrcTwwSqoz5e/s1827/0319150C-3FFC-4A7D-8A73-20DF6FCD589F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1105" data-original-width="1827" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWPk_TKaZfqbjufk49fSv6tYuKFPnbc5-a_4W7mpBkY-lPc6fSkT_m4sIBNfJ9q-ISE896GWeWs1PkhcKxpZD3MewZm5vUJyOtxqevih5SHYj6rFQmTBlH-1676hC5N9Kmq9g0XXNBuVObRrq7GkJAKFF-kq52NGdHVwhtMZOsgBTqrcTwwSqoz5e/w640-h388/0319150C-3FFC-4A7D-8A73-20DF6FCD589F.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Conclusion</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial-BoldMT" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Overall cycling has increased (from a very low base) on weekdays in inner London between 2019 and 2021. My analysis shows the central figure of all counts to be an increase of 11%.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">There is no evidence of a cycling boom in inner London, despite the Mayor of London and his Cycling Czar, Will Norman commentary. This growth is on a very small base and known to be limited to a small demographic of London’s population. On the face of it, the growth is in cycling for leisure.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Notes</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">* There were some errors in the data reported by TfL and I noted some duplication in the published figures. I have left out the sites TfL had problems with, but I have been able to correct those where there was duplication.</p></span><p></p></div></div>ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-82317399922110876712022-10-15T04:42:00.002-07:002022-12-03T02:01:52.607-08:00TfL’s London wide cycle count - What can it tell us about cycling in London? Part 2, outer London.<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">This is the second of three blog posts analysing TfL’s London wide cycle count.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>The count has been running since 2015 and is divided into central, inner and outer London, with over 1000 sites across London, and over two million items of data. It is designed to estimate the volume of cycling for the whole of London and so has some limitations when considering individual sites and counts. Nevertheless, it provides a fascinating insight into, and compelling evidence of, what is happening to levels of cycling in London. </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">In the the previous blog post looking at central London, cycle volume declined between 2019 and 2021. The propaganda of the Mayor of London and his Cycling Czar is that cycling is booming. It is not. Below is my analysis of the outer London count.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span face="Arial-BoldMT" style="font-weight: bold;">Outer London</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In outer London Tfl reported the change in volume of cycling between 2019 and 2021 in its annual statistics report as a rise of 19.9%. Below is an analysis of the outer London count, which shows some growth in outer London, but hardly a boom.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">There are 451 outer London sites. The counts have been undertaken every spring since 2015 except in 2020, because of Covid, when a subset of 200+ sites were counted in the autumn. Only Mondays to Fridays are counted for a 16 hour day, 6am till 10pm.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4INIt-ZGxkVORyrTJD3NbVGq6aS9F2Yu2iB2AZdSAp79VodR4AxPZpSP7hdw7xeFoHwbCb-sBR1_m-UeIoPw_PwN3qp-XQ09xfq-hK_vkvmPBy90Kzyk6zHcXb8dUdzohxodCSW_6XJQyAvvhs7D5zW259NWDg0oBcVL9w-aSIHc4r-VD1yrGJd0m/s1720/9C88D886-F9C3-4868-9C1B-A56027BEB5C5.jpeg"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="1720" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4INIt-ZGxkVORyrTJD3NbVGq6aS9F2Yu2iB2AZdSAp79VodR4AxPZpSP7hdw7xeFoHwbCb-sBR1_m-UeIoPw_PwN3qp-XQ09xfq-hK_vkvmPBy90Kzyk6zHcXb8dUdzohxodCSW_6XJQyAvvhs7D5zW259NWDg0oBcVL9w-aSIHc4r-VD1yrGJd0m/w400-h295/9C88D886-F9C3-4868-9C1B-A56027BEB5C5.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="color: #0000ee; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Looking at all the counts, the median shows the central change between 2019 and 2021 was a 16% increase in cycles.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglcKtHMJUVximrYrJZ4yZMUgBdYG9hewOjBqWZw-cWZZJLRowaCzVXuG2tNzekumYaoYsM6u7vKil-EbqzT41V5sgAEjQgxG_UpG4N8rtmcWjycJnptEGmDPQjjPctfvIyTmXFf1CPfpOM5s81Lc213_J668QbeGhxhW-hkBasFapdFPN7dey-AvUF/s1196/AFCB347B-766D-402B-A4E5-AF6D31446E12.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="983" data-original-width="1196" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglcKtHMJUVximrYrJZ4yZMUgBdYG9hewOjBqWZw-cWZZJLRowaCzVXuG2tNzekumYaoYsM6u7vKil-EbqzT41V5sgAEjQgxG_UpG4N8rtmcWjycJnptEGmDPQjjPctfvIyTmXFf1CPfpOM5s81Lc213_J668QbeGhxhW-hkBasFapdFPN7dey-AvUF/w400-h329/AFCB347B-766D-402B-A4E5-AF6D31446E12.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"></span></p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">The most interesting of the individual sites are the busiest cycling roads. Comparing 2019 with 2021 for the busiest 10 outer London counts in 2019 shows a spread of changes from an increase of +46% to a decrease of -36%.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><p></p><p style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2I1QlHokNhDBiUhvoJYN_EotloyhuCnQMQ_BKFCRQSquVaaqj0uUZEuJSIn_cgcaKvc6aYGc5XyPO8G8ohiUOtdAciMb1nGIhvEv7hm_7tEA7hNxQqESAw6EiLkrdbwemK3mdjzNBo3XFEKeEvi0qRL4HC3Fe2u2U80ImHKI6d_daXRbLMZhBGBH6/s1586/AFA583BD-FC1C-428E-A667-10C80F159A97.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="1586" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2I1QlHokNhDBiUhvoJYN_EotloyhuCnQMQ_BKFCRQSquVaaqj0uUZEuJSIn_cgcaKvc6aYGc5XyPO8G8ohiUOtdAciMb1nGIhvEv7hm_7tEA7hNxQqESAw6EiLkrdbwemK3mdjzNBo3XFEKeEvi0qRL4HC3Fe2u2U80ImHKI6d_daXRbLMZhBGBH6/w400-h301/AFA583BD-FC1C-428E-A667-10C80F159A97.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">For further context below is a chart showing all the Chiswick High Road counts since 2015. All were conducted in the spring, bar the 2020 count, conducted in the autumn. On the face of it most of the rise in cycling occurred before the installation of the bike lane installed in December 2020. </span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW8CRu_deFrW7J9NkQPbRa5eYcIPjON2zbn08TBBl-g2wweDBeq_7_uc1zs3O3ejerBLDTijufM74ypBMHJyVw9dfwLjTcKJM6Ndtwt970PesGLY72AM9-U3QIvd9AajEy1nO_ls7jCFVunhJENSCcvz4nNbb_y-I6dcgvLzzkZ3uA4BrBRSFVEx-e/s1831/39568462-4119-47CC-AA87-DC863FCBC7C9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="1831" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW8CRu_deFrW7J9NkQPbRa5eYcIPjON2zbn08TBBl-g2wweDBeq_7_uc1zs3O3ejerBLDTijufM74ypBMHJyVw9dfwLjTcKJM6Ndtwt970PesGLY72AM9-U3QIvd9AajEy1nO_ls7jCFVunhJENSCcvz4nNbb_y-I6dcgvLzzkZ3uA4BrBRSFVEx-e/s320/39568462-4119-47CC-AA87-DC863FCBC7C9.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Note: A recent tweet from the London Cycling Commissioner, Will Norman, implied that the rise was BECAUSE of the bike lane.</span></span><p></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Below a chart of the other busy sites.</span></div><p></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHj3bnCIAffDKO6rbw0rkluD0QnpI9Wg6i9hQIbukXPz3r9fseXEtmHT7Y0-GdWShQajnJ3IviMKOO9m8NEy6b2Cs7k-GXNSRi8-5103tMQv3rVg3fPxD0HxMFHSEjXoaMHPDTzXOFDpuqBbEPcHgSa3eNPhVOYcrZYb9ss0f54ztnrBMpXz_6t_Y/s1612/A0BA9A74-CE32-414C-9FCB-96839E820DFB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1061" data-original-width="1612" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHj3bnCIAffDKO6rbw0rkluD0QnpI9Wg6i9hQIbukXPz3r9fseXEtmHT7Y0-GdWShQajnJ3IviMKOO9m8NEy6b2Cs7k-GXNSRi8-5103tMQv3rVg3fPxD0HxMFHSEjXoaMHPDTzXOFDpuqBbEPcHgSa3eNPhVOYcrZYb9ss0f54ztnrBMpXz_6t_Y/w400-h264/A0BA9A74-CE32-414C-9FCB-96839E820DFB.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It is possible to select out the counts by the hour. Below the chart shows commuter cycling during the morning peak hours (7am til 10am) in comparison to the whole day (6am til 10pm). Commuting is flat, suggesting the increase in 2020 and 2021 is non-commuting.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJX1eWPJpCYujVGRLLAiwoozr9HkkqLF_sFM8vRF8yFAZCUx_AUtxIkzFS0McW-vbcjaHaoek4OeyCq6W8OLUmulfj2Nb3GuNhCJrBji_s6iC7pdUBz0u1bICHOg7vIpcSUEHcU-sRN6pD9Z3zoo8V3G114s0yHqXZ6Ay1Gfr4n6iL-i9XjGDNdqkR/s1315/7EFF47BC-FB9E-4FD1-8DBD-195C1851F55D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="939" data-original-width="1315" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJX1eWPJpCYujVGRLLAiwoozr9HkkqLF_sFM8vRF8yFAZCUx_AUtxIkzFS0McW-vbcjaHaoek4OeyCq6W8OLUmulfj2Nb3GuNhCJrBji_s6iC7pdUBz0u1bICHOg7vIpcSUEHcU-sRN6pD9Z3zoo8V3G114s0yHqXZ6Ay1Gfr4n6iL-i9XjGDNdqkR/w400-h286/7EFF47BC-FB9E-4FD1-8DBD-195C1851F55D.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: left;">Below another set of sites that are around the median change between 2019 and 2021 of +16%. These give a fair sense of what is happening overall.</span></p><p style="color: #0000ee; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8o5VwxfY5vJHdMX6yyEBLd2XoHKNGqD_9zoY-DPuD7nGlCI5271O0jaU5yLMrEXbXN3Zh1stFWFsw8qlEkvsV5YmoSTVpMrjGoXa4-0Uf69m7M8VI2wQKY3D2LG5zKFEnYIXXQQNT5SWEibBURUUJ8DALug1O5z7QpMdZKKIzzKOAOfD7BA1JwqS8/s1650/D7330CCD-4CBB-4A28-8F33-81FBEA5CCF77.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="1650" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8o5VwxfY5vJHdMX6yyEBLd2XoHKNGqD_9zoY-DPuD7nGlCI5271O0jaU5yLMrEXbXN3Zh1stFWFsw8qlEkvsV5YmoSTVpMrjGoXa4-0Uf69m7M8VI2wQKY3D2LG5zKFEnYIXXQQNT5SWEibBURUUJ8DALug1O5z7QpMdZKKIzzKOAOfD7BA1JwqS8/w400-h235/D7330CCD-4CBB-4A28-8F33-81FBEA5CCF77.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">And finally, a sense of cycling gender can be gained as the count enumerators noted gender of the cyclist in the outer London counts. The figures vary greatly from site to site and year to year, but the median figure is 13% female.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="Arial-BoldMT" style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><span face="Arial-BoldMT" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Overall cycling has increased (from a very low base of less than 2%) on weekdays in outer London since 2015. Particularly, cycling rose between 2019 and 2021 during non-commuting hours. TfL calculate the increase in cycling volume as 19.9%. My analysis shows the central figure of all counts to be an increase of 16%, which is quite similar. On the face of it, the growth is in cycling for leisure.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There is no evidence of the much vaunted cycling boom that the Mayor of London and his Cycling Czar, Will Norman have stated repeatedly, despite the many millions spent on this niche mode, and the neglect of other modes.</p></div>ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-20596780790498973952022-09-24T12:29:00.001-07:002022-09-24T23:29:25.947-07:00TfL’s London wide cycle count - What can it tell us about cycling in London? Part 1, central London.<div><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Cycling is important to the city and, albeit a minor mode, growing cycling is important. But growth seems unlikely to be achieved simply by the Mayor and his Cycling Commissioner overstating the importance of cycling as a mode and making overblown claims that cycling is booming when it isn’t. Rigorous analysis and policy making are needed and there hasn’t been any since Mayor Johnson and Andrew Gilligan's 2013 ‘Vision for Cycling in London’ report.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In this blog and two later ones I will try to show how TfL has access to good data that should enable the sound analysis and policy development that responsible authorities would undertake, how the existing data is being misused, (claiming trends, when it simply cannot be called a trend), and, hopefully, provide a basis for some thoughtful reflection.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">TfL does a lot of things very well. One has been to establish the London wide cycle count in 2014 on which I was privileged to be briefed. It's disappointing that having this data and the officers to interpret it, there is so much spin and propaganda associated with the statistics of cycling and too little effort to understand and inform.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Analysis of the data shows that tweets like the one below talking about cycling booming and 200%+ increases in cycling associated with bike lanes is nonsense, at least in policy making terms. The tweet comes from an official spokesman of a public body and has distorted policy making, led to mistaken decision making and to a huge waste of public money and a much poorer bus service and pedestrian environment.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdc1WR91TCbepMhUQXzdt8V5yJOGr7z5x1uVnMXaPTL_C3TSE8vklN9brOplXhKiczYHVXfc0KWctvLlBBZThp_7M4ibH88zsHcCOiXg1-X84bBou__Xa17MpwL5wxJ9CIeuVCQNfOMSHH2sOT5PEIffhs04w30A8IV4UOC9jhVkFLEKxjWUl5IFa3/s1456/5C4852E2-1025-42B2-BA34-423A73E5B977_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1255" data-original-width="1456" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdc1WR91TCbepMhUQXzdt8V5yJOGr7z5x1uVnMXaPTL_C3TSE8vklN9brOplXhKiczYHVXfc0KWctvLlBBZThp_7M4ibH88zsHcCOiXg1-X84bBou__Xa17MpwL5wxJ9CIeuVCQNfOMSHH2sOT5PEIffhs04w30A8IV4UOC9jhVkFLEKxjWUl5IFa3/w400-h345/5C4852E2-1025-42B2-BA34-423A73E5B977_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 200% claim was based on comparing two weekends in February</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: left;">TfL has 8 years of data for central London and 7 years for inner and outer London. (Counts are separated into central, inner and outer London). The count is a gold standard count of cycles conducted across the whole of London with over 1000 count sites and over 2 million items of data. Central London is counted quarterly, inner and outer London annually. The count is taken on Monday to Friday, between 6am and 10pm.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">It is well known that cycling levels are subject to great variability. The DfT describes cycling as ‘having a relationship with the weather’. But levels are also subject to variability by season and day of the week. Tuesdays are busier transport days than Fridays which in turn are usually busier than weekend days. Schooldays are busier for all transport modes than non-school days. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">To reduce this variability, though it can't be eliminated, the TfL count keeps clear of school holidays, compares the same quarter each year, counts each site across 16 hours on multiple days.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">So it’s a great count designed for a London wide result of ‘kilometres cycled per kilometre of road’ (towpath, on and off-road cycle tracks etc. are included). Nevertheless there is a big health warning when comparing single sites and one count with the next. One year's increase or decline could be entirely due to the weather, road works etc. or just chance.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">There are over 200 inner London sites counted quarterly. Q2 & Q4 2020 & Q1 2021 are missing due to COVID. Q3 has been undertaken throughout. Central London has the highest density of cycling.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">As an example, Appold Street is Hackney’s only central London site. Below is a chart derived from all the counts available and shows the gaps due to Covid. To a degree it shows the variation by season.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The second chart below uses the same data, but uses just the Q3 counts. It is more intelligible. It covers all 8 years including the only quarter, Q3, undertaken in 2020. So although there are fewer results, it reduces the seasonal variation.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">More interesting are the counts from the 6 central London bridges. The Thames acts as a traffic cordon for all trips to and from the south of the river into central London and so provides a proxy for cycling activity in central London. Below are the Q3 counts from 2014 to 2021.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Below, covers the same time period, but just the morning peak hours (7am til 10am). And so you get a sense of commuter cycling, which constitutes a large part of all cycling, particularly in central London.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">I have added all 6 bridge counts together which probably gives the best sense of the change in cycling levels in central London.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Finally all the quarter counts of each central London bridge and an average of the total 6 bridge counts on one chart. It is very obvious that cycling in central London hadn't boomed before or after Will Norman's 200%+ tweet.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">An overall sense of the change in cycling in central London can also be gained by looking at the change (positive and negative) of all the 200+ central London counts. The median change (a type of average) between Q3 2019 and Q3 2021 is -17%. I removed a couple of outliers.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">It’s clear from looking at these counts that there has been not been a 200% + increase in cycling in central London associated with cycle lanes contrary to the claim made by the cycling commissioner in his tweet. Policy is being made at best on the basis of misunderstanding, at the worst it is deliberate distortion. Huge sums of public money are being wasted and misdirected when money could be usefully spent on more impactful ways to change travel behaviour and make our roads safer for everyone.</p></div><div><br /></div>ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-12760512487732190922022-05-25T22:45:00.001-07:002022-05-27T08:01:04.093-07:00Inclusive cycling- what can we learn from the Kingsmead Estate in Hackney?<p><span style="font-family: arial;">The cycle lobby and bloggers have managed to establish that there is a simple link between road safety and levels of cycling. They suggest many would rush to cycle if only the road network ‘felt’ safe. They use the phrase ‘build it and they will come’.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">They are able to sustain this argument because very few people cycle and little independent research has been undertaken. The research available has been undertaken by lobby groups in the main. And what research there is relies on surveys of attitude and sentiment. They ask respondents what they 'might </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>do' rather than researching what they 'actually do'. In the words of </span><a href="https://iatbr.weebly.com/before-1990.html">Werner Brög,</a> Social researcher and well know travel surveyor, “attitude is not behaviour”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The study I have undertaken is very different. It is an analysis of two communities in Hackney living cheek by jowl and using an identical local road network. The data is from the 2011 Census and as such is of unimpeachable quality. The analysis finds huge a difference in cycling levels between two communities that share identical access to the local road network. It debunks the cycle bloggers mantra of ‘build it and they will come’. The challenge for those advocating inclusive cycling is to understand why this is.</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The analysis finds that comparing two adjacent census areas in Hackney one, ‘the leafy streets’, has the third highest (25.6%) cycling to work levels in Hackney. This compares to the adjacent ‘inter-war and 80s housing estate’ with the second lowest (3.6%). Both share an identical local road network. This is a seven-fold difference in cycling levels. The housing estate is the most bus dependent in the borough.</b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The two communities.</b></span></p><p><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial;">The map below is of the census areas which the Office of National Statistics (ONS) call Lower Level Super Output Areas (LSOAs). There are 144 such areas in Hackney. They will have between 400 and 1200 households each and are shown here with their ONS reference numbers.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1038" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN7ffqqFHvmZ_daDqChecAsKnp6bBsEJD9gYTLHt5DMk0Jcc3s_sqjk6W-h4Bj-QGTaELIdlbXoSkNHcsVYj-oA4OwRNqpkZVwuVDXkZ13YBbyD6vUrug1zrSW8zhMKbqzpK3CXeo7h6Hn6VZxKH7SgkySWzdt2q5P_krE-7DWssobEl7Pq3b-JAeW/w400-h274/BC19D734-D4E2-4904-9A31-4E84E8531F6C.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Two adjacent Hackney LSOAs</b> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN7ffqqFHvmZ_daDqChecAsKnp6bBsEJD9gYTLHt5DMk0Jcc3s_sqjk6W-h4Bj-QGTaELIdlbXoSkNHcsVYj-oA4OwRNqpkZVwuVDXkZ13YBbyD6vUrug1zrSW8zhMKbqzpK3CXeo7h6Hn6VZxKH7SgkySWzdt2q5P_krE-7DWssobEl7Pq3b-JAeW/s1038/BC19D734-D4E2-4904-9A31-4E84E8531F6C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The 144 LSOAs have vastly different travel to work by cycling levels. The highest being 27.5% down to 3.1%</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3gIP9Hjs3aNvffDyGTcy-GQtOxUWVrMRk_8iMErx0LhSr-tASm8dqKpyUuFaaTHTCQv38CXTLDlmr0nUAaVEjH2w7lmzaqE_MXnilJlieDkOJUN9Zz1T3KhYuPMjDsgB_QjF9fz1MKxyLvywWNNTrfKaImu1qO4WjuLNmZfe8AkwFlLdhlNFmd5Ar/s1113/3FBD50F4-54A6-4B35-BB1F-1157CA5E8496.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1113" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3gIP9Hjs3aNvffDyGTcy-GQtOxUWVrMRk_8iMErx0LhSr-tASm8dqKpyUuFaaTHTCQv38CXTLDlmr0nUAaVEjH2w7lmzaqE_MXnilJlieDkOJUN9Zz1T3KhYuPMjDsgB_QjF9fz1MKxyLvywWNNTrfKaImu1qO4WjuLNmZfe8AkwFlLdhlNFmd5Ar/w400-h281/3FBD50F4-54A6-4B35-BB1F-1157CA5E8496.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The first community live in Victorian terrace housing on leafy streets, just off the Homerton Road. There is little through traffic. Homerton Road is not one of London’s thundering roads. It is a narrow primary route, the B112, often busy, but slow flowing road. It has a speed camera indicating past serious collisions. It is an important bus corridor. Access to the wider road network to the north and west, where most local transport objectives would be, is via Homerton Road or the wider traffic filtered area of Lower Clapton.</span><p></p><p><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial;">The second adjacent community lives on an inter-war and 80s housing estate that was a Hackney council estate and former timber factory, but is now managed by housing associations. It is set further back from the Homerton Road than the leafy streets and there is again little through traffic. In all other ways access to the local and wider road network is identical.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It’s clear that these two areas share the same road network. Both are within the red circle on the map below.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVYzbg3SzteSR4qeEyeplUBZf-slEViYRYpyN5jbajubGhSJq-1pdjcFDyZC5Tz3M7IIXdqAovNIzDl8Mc3gb914Owtac_Zypp_LcFuj1_NDK0yvss2zPBzfwuotl5vbJB6fGPbmCOp9BAkjgWbMWUpi0hK7YWoZNmgStJGcrPvggc5NGAMJWuvRb/s2360/E9160EC2-4CC6-4D55-A61C-C5481BB500B4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1514" data-original-width="2360" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVYzbg3SzteSR4qeEyeplUBZf-slEViYRYpyN5jbajubGhSJq-1pdjcFDyZC5Tz3M7IIXdqAovNIzDl8Mc3gb914Owtac_Zypp_LcFuj1_NDK0yvss2zPBzfwuotl5vbJB6fGPbmCOp9BAkjgWbMWUpi0hK7YWoZNmgStJGcrPvggc5NGAMJWuvRb/w400-h256/E9160EC2-4CC6-4D55-A61C-C5481BB500B4.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>The leafy streets</b></span></span><div><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><div><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;">This photo is a reasonable representation of the leafy streets.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><div><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEfnpfXA6s0shjmPYTo4ZWUEwsHdGOkdMjXXwFt7MTt10hzFU6S4mdGaVVr5pIcNXiMYNIfksyCVRDnzAJ25BBES0USgMUtIrPIpKyXW7QdXqR0YXaJRMWQADSQIh-c3rKpiYSGXc0th7-wzY8JOHePky5Py5zKO3p5oTlX2WoccxeBYadbzV4wYVZ/s4032/28940410-3E73-46C3-AD90-35A98899BE51.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEfnpfXA6s0shjmPYTo4ZWUEwsHdGOkdMjXXwFt7MTt10hzFU6S4mdGaVVr5pIcNXiMYNIfksyCVRDnzAJ25BBES0USgMUtIrPIpKyXW7QdXqR0YXaJRMWQADSQIh-c3rKpiYSGXc0th7-wzY8JOHePky5Py5zKO3p5oTlX2WoccxeBYadbzV4wYVZ/w300-h400/28940410-3E73-46C3-AD90-35A98899BE51.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The leafy streets</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b><br /></b></span></span><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>The inter-war and 80s housing estate</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;">This photo represents most of the housing on the Kingsmead Estate.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDdQfZyFlTlSzdz_hOreAXTvL4gYXw1HTvO0CeJLZdKeIkhObZ73hGFONWWYB6V3Nk1sbF_8SViOLZmhTAI8FbnF_6ujJTV9yVr7vclcqzaRvfTonfFNo3CYaLeBTNrW7_O1-up8dy9KJsdHQLPydUu3ZwQ39dOmKjjefA9K-5K7XILqDCBFr5jY9o/s4032/CF49009A-7711-4BB0-B7CC-EDCA684A8453.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDdQfZyFlTlSzdz_hOreAXTvL4gYXw1HTvO0CeJLZdKeIkhObZ73hGFONWWYB6V3Nk1sbF_8SViOLZmhTAI8FbnF_6ujJTV9yVr7vclcqzaRvfTonfFNo3CYaLeBTNrW7_O1-up8dy9KJsdHQLPydUu3ZwQ39dOmKjjefA9K-5K7XILqDCBFr5jY9o/w320-h240/CF49009A-7711-4BB0-B7CC-EDCA684A8453.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The inter-war housing estate, Kingsmead</b></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></div><div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The demographics</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The leafy streets community</b> is 66% white, of whom 34% cycle to work.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> 43% commute by Underground, rail or bus; 13% by car whilst 11% work from home.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The second largest ethnic group are black (17%) of whom less than 3% cycle to work. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Most (62%) commute by Underground, rail and bus; 25% by car whilst 8% work from home.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Overall 43% have access to a car, 21% travel to work by bus, 26% by cycle, the third highest of any LSOA in Hackney.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The inter-war housing community</b> is 53% black of whom less than 4% cycle to work. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Most others (74%) commute by Underground, rail or bus (50%), 14% by car whilst 5% work from home.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The second largest ethnic group are white (27%) of whom 9.5% cycle to work. Most others (60%) commute by Underground, rail and bus and 20% by car whilst 6% work from home.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Overall 35% have access to a car. 46% travel to work by bus, making it the most bus dependent community in Hackney. 4% cycle, the second lowest rate of any LSOA in Hackney.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Looking for an explanation</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So what are the differences between these communities that so impacts cycling levels, beyond the housing form and ethnic group. The Census allows further analysis by cross tabulating several different characteristics within each LSOA.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Ethnic group and cycling</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>If you plot cycling levels against % of white commuters it seems there is a </span><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">correlation, though some of the highest % of white population has the lowest cycling rates. I think this is associated with the Charedi community in Stamford Hill.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTMNxX4SAQ0Wh_aDdnIoR098fzmp7LTPg9Z6O78Wy2Eubyt5J_IcOlqCMKdGm7OPNfcRmkmMwkOmd03gmIxTmWbD0FBVP7kTXLo07JOqbiy4PKyRdF0RD68HuHaYnBxiCR9hLEQSdHMXuC-JZdtD1d91hj5y2b2SiOhu2-Ona0SaQUzi9Yt7JBWeK-/s1570/9674F521-D6BF-42CA-894A-40AD8021E1CB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="1570" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTMNxX4SAQ0Wh_aDdnIoR098fzmp7LTPg9Z6O78Wy2Eubyt5J_IcOlqCMKdGm7OPNfcRmkmMwkOmd03gmIxTmWbD0FBVP7kTXLo07JOqbiy4PKyRdF0RD68HuHaYnBxiCR9hLEQSdHMXuC-JZdtD1d91hj5y2b2SiOhu2-Ona0SaQUzi9Yt7JBWeK-/w400-h231/9674F521-D6BF-42CA-894A-40AD8021E1CB.jpeg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Socio-economic group and cycling</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here cycle to work levels are plotted against a Census <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/otherclassifications/thenationalstatisticssocioeconomicclassificationnssecrebasedonsoc2010">socio-economic classification</a>.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1450" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBwd00HpyHlU4nGt0UGTdM-GgsdFIXVGnXIpbA4PL_v0Pb0-0qWLuVJ_8j3TiUqydLqZXNC7bNSOS4MRdXsYlNBz2HwyZpg5btgkY8BzI3XGHNNFpNESDgxwcfjGO_AiKvY8FhwfjvDmNqCjrL4WKOw_P-XT2CEajsBIA4CejMj158Xi6WKcCz8b5I/w400-h245/9075788C-BB9B-48A1-9A69-FC93F0082602.jpeg" width="400" /></b></div><p> <b style="font-family: arial;">Occupation and cycling</b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In a similar way to socio-economic classification, high cycle to work levels correlate with high percentages of professional occupations.</span></p><div><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9SUumvkfoIzxeyNXkqpNhZSzUBl0WivJGJ8JZLrFmSBNcSbm9nxGuCZUBCVvgiXGZyVN5GT0JNrC2B3Ud3P3DTIPlrmDrTaFkOb4OCuLPVoOonD4BnisRQoRjji6HYxEMVPQXq2JJrYf7tpsQAtS9WAzFyQqn5mSaoAW5hn-_j_yo41jlZQlTiV6g/s1487/2F5D25A6-4861-4CA5-9889-56682F9088EE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="910" data-original-width="1487" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9SUumvkfoIzxeyNXkqpNhZSzUBl0WivJGJ8JZLrFmSBNcSbm9nxGuCZUBCVvgiXGZyVN5GT0JNrC2B3Ud3P3DTIPlrmDrTaFkOb4OCuLPVoOonD4BnisRQoRjji6HYxEMVPQXq2JJrYf7tpsQAtS9WAzFyQqn5mSaoAW5hn-_j_yo41jlZQlTiV6g/w400-h245/2F5D25A6-4861-4CA5-9889-56682F9088EE.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Access to car and cycling</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Unsurprisingly better off residents own cars and so given what we have learned above its not surprising that high</span><span style="font-family: arial;">er levels of cycling are associated with car ownership, though this will be depressed in Hackney due to its car free planning policies.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh43pOPXe2GdaECLSEMrBXOLEfLln5qc-3oUQwbjABjre7bsU-8I3NAO4bzyfWNPKfXZ9BpPLJdVkPDA_lRRAMbiiBDLkz-svcx4sepZnTkno2prKW68PR_7o6QVfCc7Dz_RO3uduDx-7l6WLEo-3kDtZ4jwd-2nq50DaWKOW1vZ7np-_AON3m9PzZu/s1487/2FFCB5C6-251A-4561-BC6E-77B609034BED.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="1487" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh43pOPXe2GdaECLSEMrBXOLEfLln5qc-3oUQwbjABjre7bsU-8I3NAO4bzyfWNPKfXZ9BpPLJdVkPDA_lRRAMbiiBDLkz-svcx4sepZnTkno2prKW68PR_7o6QVfCc7Dz_RO3uduDx-7l6WLEo-3kDtZ4jwd-2nq50DaWKOW1vZ7np-_AON3m9PzZu/w400-h244/2FFCB5C6-251A-4561-BC6E-77B609034BED.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Conclusion</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">It is clear from this analysis that the central proposition of cycle lobbyists is not true. if politicians and sensible policy makers continue to unquestioningly follow their lead they will continue to fail and cycling will remain the preserve of those living on the leafy streets.</span><br /></div>ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-33523449882013480342021-12-13T10:08:00.003-08:002021-12-14T00:20:49.347-08:00 Access denied, How providing for cycling has left disabled people with less access to bus services<p><span style="font-family: arial;">One of the things one picks up early from working in transport and talking to older and disabled people is that they fear cycles on the pavement. And so for many of those working on streets policy it has been shocking to see TfL and other highway authorities divert cycles through bus passenger waiting areas at bus stops. This has been reinforced for me when working alongside disability groups who complained of being ignored and at a Hackney council scrutiny committee when the RNIB told us blind people could not use these stops. </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVtcQD2TJcOwvFr6641iVbdJeLcZ6kNYjQ38hm74qfPs8t880gn3sAiHva9a_thCqR6u8DMbqTAUoDGVpQrognyLAYWcloA5L7pDEzJpCmaV7iOSfB6GwyUiPpAtCrRUGlbsnxi6JBNvnRgYtIGWs2Ajt2QRQs4ZJ5ZXtfatV9rrOyaT3oLHnLT-6y=s1868" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="1868" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVtcQD2TJcOwvFr6641iVbdJeLcZ6kNYjQ38hm74qfPs8t880gn3sAiHva9a_thCqR6u8DMbqTAUoDGVpQrognyLAYWcloA5L7pDEzJpCmaV7iOSfB6GwyUiPpAtCrRUGlbsnxi6JBNvnRgYtIGWs2Ajt2QRQs4ZJ5ZXtfatV9rrOyaT3oLHnLT-6y=w400-h289" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And to recently read that TfL’s own internal disability advisory group described one bus stop design as a ‘turd’, is more shocking still:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;">However, there was also strong agreement that this design was, in essence, ‘polishing a turd’ i.e. it was still a turd, but a better one.</i></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">The introduction of accessible buses and bus stops has been a key task of the last 30 years. This is because the bus is the most inclusive and affordable public transport, operating 24/7 across the whole of greater London. Any notion of social justice in transport starts with improving access to public transport, primarily the bus.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We know there will be any number of bus passengers at these stops that are either elderly or disabled. There will also be other passengers not in these groups, for example those pushing a buggy or alighting with multiple small and energetic children. All have benefited from legislation and action to improve access to the bus.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">How did we get into a situation where £100s millions has been spent over decades on accessible buses and £10s millions to provide accessible stops? How have public bodies, such as TfL, been able to avoid their legal duty to older and disabled people to ‘advance equality’? Are they in fact allowed to disadvantage disabled people who need to access the bus from the pavement in such a manner?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">TfL describes the negative impact of their bus stop designs on disabled people in its equalities assessment. And so they understand the problem. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">They say:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And on older people:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Which all means that older and blind people along with, say, autistic children, and those that use wheelchairs will be put off using the bus. And in some cases may well be injured because cycles, travelling at speed*, are diverted through bus stops.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3paRcqML80OuCeE1VOIgSFSOg3MiK3F_pxxk56Kry_DMx4VqNk563i-SdeJShaTTQ_T8AeYbLod2asTng6kjLsVCXxVLinoHkS1x790Y2GklnmigMHFSvvzdno0sm0CokYQRibaLXaUGBxCPQp4u0u2Zg7DHk6VzA4xPIHAZd5sp-A0uUu49XlOXT=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3paRcqML80OuCeE1VOIgSFSOg3MiK3F_pxxk56Kry_DMx4VqNk563i-SdeJShaTTQ_T8AeYbLod2asTng6kjLsVCXxVLinoHkS1x790Y2GklnmigMHFSvvzdno0sm0CokYQRibaLXaUGBxCPQp4u0u2Zg7DHk6VzA4xPIHAZd5sp-A0uUu49XlOXT=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Understanding how this has been possible requires an understanding of the history of equalities legislation. But in short the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act that focussed entirely on disability, was repealed and replaced by the Equalities Act 2010 with 9 ‘protected characteristics’.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Age</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Disability</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Gender Reassignment</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Marriage and Civil Partnership</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pregnancy and Maternity</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Race</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Religion and Belief</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sex</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sexual Orientation</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And this has meant that instead of worrying about the access needs of older and disabled people getting on and off the bus, TfL has been able to mix it up in their assessment and balance off the needs of any group that is under represented in the demographics of cycling. Thus, TfL say:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">there are benefits for all ages:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">disabled people benefit:</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p></div>ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-65334598997892820722021-05-19T23:18:00.000-07:002021-05-19T23:18:10.768-07:00There were 228 cycling fatalities in the Netherlands in 2018 - Christian Wolmar doesn’t want this known<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The cycle bloggers and campaign groups such as the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) are forever extolling the virtues of cycling in the Netherlands. In 2012 the LCC ran a campaign to persuade the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, that London should ‘Go Dutch’. It was implied that cycling in the Netherlands is much safer than in Great Britain. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is the case that on a ‘per kilometre’ cycled basis fatalities are lower. <span face="Arial-BoldMT" style="font-weight: bold;"> However, in absolute numbers, the Netherlands has twice the number of cycling fatalities than Great Britain, but with a population one quarter ours</span>. I have tried to bring this to people’s attention because it’s important. But I was effectively silenced. The person who prompted the suppression of my views would, you’d have thought, been in favour of free speech and intellectually interested in alternative points of view.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Christian Wolmar,</b> journalist, and London Cycling Campaign board member (Chair of the HR Committee), wrote twice last year to my employer complaining about comments on my personal Twitter account. Until now I have been unable to respond. In August he wrote:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>“I </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">have been concerned about his Twitter posts for some time but the final trigger which has prompted this email is a recent post in which he used statistics in a completely dishonest way. In this post, Mr Stops argues that to ‘Go Dutch’ risks an increase in cycling fatalities because that is what has happened in the Netherlands. This is a misuse of statistics on a Trumpian scale. Of course there are more fatalities in the Netherlands because cycling levels are many times greater than in the UK. The relevant statistic, as Mr Stops must know, is the rate of deaths per million miles cycled, which is far lower than ours. This is a plain misuse of statistics, using a highly partial selection in order to fit in with Mr Stops’ views.”</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>His complaint went on:</span></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>“</span>I would be very interested to know if this is something that is allowed under your employment terms and, if not, whether you will ask Mr Stops to desist from making these attacks.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Below is the thread he complained about. My tweet makes the point that <span face="Arial-BoldMT" style="font-weight: bold;">the absolute number of cycling fatalities in the Netherlands in 2018 was 228 and in Great Britain 99. And that the Netherlands has a population a quarter the size of the GB.</span> I highlight this because it is a big deal. People ought to think about the consequences of ‘going Dutch’. I believe we should do much better than the Dutch, or there will be many more cycling fatalities on our roads.</p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmVOyHsQ5diXKvyadWPg3W3FMkh60ge-CTIUVIgUUkVBWfW9ZYCIArNHK1cLsXOWSzOLziZUxxDGbZ_R_w_R3vEmAzyI096I7GpJy10M1SccdOEbvFrfp7e_RUsXSm69m4_IJhMEd8SOM/s1382/48886C1A-19E5-4713-8E5C-BBCC701CA9D8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="1382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmVOyHsQ5diXKvyadWPg3W3FMkh60ge-CTIUVIgUUkVBWfW9ZYCIArNHK1cLsXOWSzOLziZUxxDGbZ_R_w_R3vEmAzyI096I7GpJy10M1SccdOEbvFrfp7e_RUsXSm69m4_IJhMEd8SOM/s320/48886C1A-19E5-4713-8E5C-BBCC701CA9D8.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One should be careful with statistics. The number of fatalities can be ‘normalised’ in different ways, and it is true that there is a lot more cycling per head of population in the Netherlands than in Great Britain. Presenting the fatality statistic per kilometre cycled (cycle fatalities / kilometres cycled) is relevant and favours the Netherlands. It is, however, only one dimension. <b>The absolute number of fatalities, is equally relevant because every life matters and the numbers in the Netherlands are high.</b></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The best source of the data I know is the EU sponsored European Transport Safety Council’s publication, page 25: <span style="color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;">How safe is walking and cycling in Europe?</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoVcKy4QFC2skhzzL8F0k2PoqM_5SegOg2ftYaUk7YeOSCkX_tWxbdS2BOW8pJaXSFn3YzX1-JdyBxu9nrriB5mpnNNBro-XVKGoimH8CvcBzhzlmC8Xq-6xdYyzAywlxG_2jz7za8Fig/s1985/828ED7E5-F03D-4052-AA65-19B58A085B2B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1985" data-original-width="1446" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoVcKy4QFC2skhzzL8F0k2PoqM_5SegOg2ftYaUk7YeOSCkX_tWxbdS2BOW8pJaXSFn3YzX1-JdyBxu9nrriB5mpnNNBro-XVKGoimH8CvcBzhzlmC8Xq-6xdYyzAywlxG_2jz7za8Fig/w291-h400/828ED7E5-F03D-4052-AA65-19B58A085B2B.jpeg" width="291" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mr Wolmar is correct in saying ‘<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">cycling levels are many times greater than in the U.K.’ T</span>he distance cycled per year, per inhabitant, is 865km in the Netherlands compared to 80km in Great Britain i.e. over ten times more. Cyclist deaths per billion kilometres cycled is 13 for the Netherlands compared to 19 for Great Britain. That means the fatality rate per kilometre cycled in the Netherlands is 2/3 that of Great Britain. <b>It is not “far lower than ours” as Mr Wolmar states.</b> </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>The table also shows the cycling fatalities per million inhabitants is 12 in the Netherlands compared to 2 in Great Britain.</b></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, the point of my tweet was not to deny that the Netherlands do better in terms of fatalities per kilometre cycled, but to make the point that the <span face="Arial-BoldMT" style="font-weight: bold;">absolute number of cycling fatalities on Netherlands cycling infrastructure is very high and if the UK had the same fatality statistics as the Netherlands it would mean many hundreds more cycling fatalities.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Going Dutch may not be such a good idea. To emulate ‘Go Dutch’ may well result in many more cycling casualties on our roads. We need to do better than the Dutch. This is the debate Mr Wolmar wanted to close down.</p><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Postscript</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As background, the latest fatality data for all modes in both countries is available for 2019<span face="Arial-BoldMT" style="font-weight: bold;">. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tackling pedestrian and motorcycling casualties, alongside cycling and child casualties on the roads is where the focus of road safety should be in my view and, until recently, was.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 23px; padding: 4px; width: 151px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p></td><td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 23px; padding: 4px; width: 60px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Great <u>Britain</u></span></p></td><td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 23px; padding: 4px; width: 45px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Netherlands</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: gainsboro; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 12px; padding: 4px; width: 151px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pedestrians </span></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 12px; padding: 4px; width: 60px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">470</p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 12px; padding: 4px; width: 45px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">49</p></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: gainsboro; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 151px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cyclists</span></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 60px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">100</p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 45px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">203</p></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: gainsboro; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 151px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Motorcyclists</span></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 60px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">336</p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 45px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">94*</p></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: gainsboro; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 151px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Car occupants</span></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 60px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">736</p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 45px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">237</p></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: gainsboro; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 151px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Other</span></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 60px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">110</p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 45px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">78**</p></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: gainsboro; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 151px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Total</span></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 60px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">1752</p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 45px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">661</p></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: gainsboro; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 151px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Population millions (Wikipedia)</span></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 60px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">67</p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 45px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">17</p></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 151px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">* includes mopeds & pedelecs</span></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 60px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 45px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 151px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">** includes 42 mobility scooters</span></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 60px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 11px; padding: 4px; width: 45px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">The Netherlands recently published figures for 2020 that show there were <b>an even greater number of cycle fatalities in 2020. 229 cyclists lost their lives using Netherlands cycling infrastructure, the highest number of cycling deaths in 25 years:</b> </span><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2021/15/610-traffic-deaths-in-2020</span></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>More and safer cycling</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There are interventions that can improve cycle safety and they are well known:</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Slower speed initiatives;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Motor traffic reduction;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Targeted remodelling of junctions:</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Education and enforcement -get some training: <a href="https://bikeability.org.uk/bikeability-training/bikeability-level-3/">https://bikeability.org.uk/bikeability-training/bikeability-level-3/</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Motor vehicle design - there is some hope that the design of large lorries, more appropriate for urban areas with greater all round vision for the driver, may reduce ‘failure to see’ collisions.</span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-53673129951289656742021-05-11T05:09:00.004-07:002021-05-26T00:56:24.279-07:00Are cycle lanes safe? A personal view.<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Much has been made recently of conditions being made safe for cycling. However my experience has been that there is an unwillingness to discuss or take on board any views about what keeps cyclists safe other than the viewpoint that is currently fashionable - namely providing cycle lanes across London. The lengths to which some people will go to in order to suppress alternative views has surprised me. It includes people who would be, you’d have thought, in favour of free speech. These are my personal views.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Christian Wolmar journalist and London Cycling Campaign board member (Chair of the HR Committee), wrote twice last year to my employer complaining about comments on my personal Twitter account. Until now I have been unable to respond. In August he wrote:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“I am writing to you as a <b>trustee of the London Cycling Campaign</b> and one of the founders of <b>Labour Cycles</b> over concerns about the Twitter activities of one of your staff, Vincent Stops.”</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span>His second complaint in October stated:</span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span><span><span>“After a period where Vincent was quieter and blocked me so I could not see his emails [tweets?], he<span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">is now at it again.. Here is his latest effort which is clearly nonsensical - cycle lanes are not inherently dangerous and I am sure this is not a view that [<b>employer's name</b>] would want to share.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span><span style="font-family: arial;">I hope that you <b>can take action on this</b>...”</span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Below is the thread he complained about. My twitter thread challenges a rewriting of history by the local cycling group as to how Hackney became such a successful cycling borough. As an aside I say that cycle lanes were avoided because they are unsafe:</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyT6hzZ5sqWaCJF65w-TnEEFfeaGlq3IqNOK5HvWml_94DMJ_9SCwzJNnH4ZypiyO0f6TnT3nt0BgfVUf68a0ZuhamnZRlsdphGb0NUStZeB9IW-EeX02uJx0cWFAP29EAjHhupkkZHw/s1414/AC9617FD-24D7-4AE2-8AFB-081470FB8538.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1414" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyT6hzZ5sqWaCJF65w-TnEEFfeaGlq3IqNOK5HvWml_94DMJ_9SCwzJNnH4ZypiyO0f6TnT3nt0BgfVUf68a0ZuhamnZRlsdphGb0NUStZeB9IW-EeX02uJx0cWFAP29EAjHhupkkZHw/w400-h314/AC9617FD-24D7-4AE2-8AFB-081470FB8538.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I’ve worked professionally, and as a councillor in Hackney, to promote more and safer cycling for over two decades. For two years I was the lead councillor for transport. Hackney is by far the best cycling borough in London. The Census in 2011 reported the highest rise in cycle to work of any local authority area in Great Britain. More residents cycle to work than drive. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There are cycle campaigners who think cycle lanes will get more people cycling safely, but there are others who have substantive concerns about the safety of cycle lanes. I am one of the latter - some cycle lanes are unsafe. I have made that case in public for many years, including on my Twitter account.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>I’ve been on Twitter for a decade and have been debated and attacked for my views for years, and that’s fine. But what I want to put on the public record, and respond to, is the action of journalist and London Cycling Campaign board member, Mr. Wolmar, who made a direct complaint to my employer asking them to take action against me. The effect of this complaint was to stop me being able to express my views on these safety concerns, even in my own </span>borough, in which I am an elected representative.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">My twitter account made no reference to my then employer, nor has it ever made reference to my employer. The account is obviously of my own views. I didn’t get a chance to debate Mr. Wolmar on Twitter as he did not seek to engage with me, preferring, instead, to seek to suppress my views via my employer.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Christian Wolmar is a fairly high profile individual in transport circles and his complaint led to my consulting a solicitor, my trade union and invoking a grievance process with my employer - a public body that I had worked for, for 20 years and had hitherto been supportive of my public role.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Are cycle lanes ‘safe’?</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Campaigning for cycle lanes and describing them as ‘protected’, ‘SafeSpace4Cycling’ or ‘segregated’, is easy. It is much more difficult to actually design and implement lanes that provide space genuinely separate from motor vehicles. Often cycle lanes will stop short of the intersection. And it is at intersections where, overwhelmingly, collisions that injure cyclists occur. The ‘protection’ will often be only a dashed line or coloured surface. And, critically, the cycle lane means that cyclists are in the wrong position on the road from which to safely negotiate the intersection. Cycle lanes can make negotiating intersections less safe.</span></p><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The collision types include: </span></p><ol style="list-style-type: lower-roman;">
<li style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">being hit by a left turning vehicle or a vehicle changing lane;</span></li>
<li style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">being hit by a right turning vehicle. </span></li>
</ol><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can read some proper analysis of cycle collisions commissioned by TfL <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://content.tfl.gov.uk/pedal-cyclist-collisions-and-casualities-in-greater-london-sep-2011.pdf" target="_blank">here</a></span>. And below is a slide from the Metropolitan Police service:</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiarzATAYiR1R08t3hF1OkOjbsky_LycpE91zOMZ2EhrUEL82ymTKKHJfPFlPtbz8wpKKINsAOFBs4vnFtPgsHaQ2uXMhBjMIl32nr_7BZDiB9ChcX2Ec3nUhzXp5gbjxYqkkbBoB2pSxc/s1668/D2E41138-3030-4400-B5C3-CEDE6FDBC1F1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1245" data-original-width="1668" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiarzATAYiR1R08t3hF1OkOjbsky_LycpE91zOMZ2EhrUEL82ymTKKHJfPFlPtbz8wpKKINsAOFBs4vnFtPgsHaQ2uXMhBjMIl32nr_7BZDiB9ChcX2Ec3nUhzXp5gbjxYqkkbBoB2pSxc/s320/D2E41138-3030-4400-B5C3-CEDE6FDBC1F1.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cycle lanes may be fine on stretches of road where there are no intersections, but if there are intersections, bike lanes mean cycles pass side roads and travel through junctions, often at speed, too close to the kerb and on the inside of motor vehicles. This is the opposite strategy to that which cycle training teaches cyclists. Cycle training encourages cyclists to take a more central position so that one is visible to other road users. Cyclists should travel either in front of, or behind vehicles at intersections, and should not try to fit alongside each other competing for the same road-space at the junction or turn.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiCTvxVgJe_KzufANU2csTIy0SNYc60gydWrRtPtMvJHRGs8WoYocpWZpj4MOASBYW1DVYY5gUdhb8aHxob230eg0Gg9W6Iv-C7zvYGHpDCqo0ZhyphenhyphenY4BBMZpj2VBgMgqtR6yk8LQ_2UVE/s2048/B62DB0D8-BE9C-40F7-9F63-F1877FC90801.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1153" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiCTvxVgJe_KzufANU2csTIy0SNYc60gydWrRtPtMvJHRGs8WoYocpWZpj4MOASBYW1DVYY5gUdhb8aHxob230eg0Gg9W6Iv-C7zvYGHpDCqo0ZhyphenhyphenY4BBMZpj2VBgMgqtR6yk8LQ_2UVE/s320/B62DB0D8-BE9C-40F7-9F63-F1877FC90801.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><p><span><br /></span></p>Cyclists travelling at speed down the inside of motor traffic at an intersection are out of the mind’s eye of the motorist or in a blind spot as the driver turns left and as both cyclist and driver compete for the same road-space. There is some proper research about ‘failure to see’ associated with turning collisions, commissioned by the EU </span><a href="https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/report/SaferWheels_study_on_powered_two-wheeler_and_bicycle_accidents_in_the_EU_-_Final_report/9354305">here</a><span>. </span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH9aGaZSHSIwbl3IRg5CfT_xg97dcomIsdbK2Ms71kWE64_vAo9k_tzOrVXxiC2WlCyftJ_8ySrbjS7A0MVBUZPmUUazSnNHkgdc-jVyx61n_XqbQ3CGLKgzzloeJW8hz9XrffFjLVQkE/s1043/534A0D59-7FB9-458E-A45F-353827B4140F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="1043" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH9aGaZSHSIwbl3IRg5CfT_xg97dcomIsdbK2Ms71kWE64_vAo9k_tzOrVXxiC2WlCyftJ_8ySrbjS7A0MVBUZPmUUazSnNHkgdc-jVyx61n_XqbQ3CGLKgzzloeJW8hz9XrffFjLVQkE/s320/534A0D59-7FB9-458E-A45F-353827B4140F.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Below is an example from my own borough. The cycle lane merges with the carriageway. Cycles turning right compete with left turning motor vehicles for the same road-space.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7hm8fZzsFY_R5aT9fANCph8cs3tEDOGH9NjRm63gPcoX1SKC1WSF0GQ5WjZBatw6kvVA5wXJB38l7RLjOEhTje5UVv5fcAbPVJUcLprxDoqsnE7vy7GXRjtb9JtL-yCHWargLhTE6n10/s2543/E2977A63-C681-4691-8797-8680F3CF646D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7hm8fZzsFY_R5aT9fANCph8cs3tEDOGH9NjRm63gPcoX1SKC1WSF0GQ5WjZBatw6kvVA5wXJB38l7RLjOEhTje5UVv5fcAbPVJUcLprxDoqsnE7vy7GXRjtb9JtL-yCHWargLhTE6n10/s320/E2977A63-C681-4691-8797-8680F3CF646D.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Below, at the approach to Highbury Corner. A multi-million pound, cycle led, remodelling has designed in this situation. Cycles travelling straight ahead compete with left turning vehicles.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKIgCqIosntZIhRQKUhqs-KWwhh7u7RGTIv1MicAnOvgr3OHhhTtsjBbWUTetlexW4Efp9mvx4eQj-tFTglKaHTUEJZgpxa9Rb8cgVaMa4YAXNRc-phPuWpUsG5-6EyihjBRpN_Xni7M/s2048/75DBF9F3-3C65-4E5F-B2F6-FB0C186FF509.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1362" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKIgCqIosntZIhRQKUhqs-KWwhh7u7RGTIv1MicAnOvgr3OHhhTtsjBbWUTetlexW4Efp9mvx4eQj-tFTglKaHTUEJZgpxa9Rb8cgVaMa4YAXNRc-phPuWpUsG5-6EyihjBRpN_Xni7M/w266-h400/75DBF9F3-3C65-4E5F-B2F6-FB0C186FF509.jpeg" width="266" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>A similar situation arises as cycles pass side roads. Again the cycle is too close to the kerb and the motor vehicle will pass on the offside of the cycle and may fail to see as the driver turns left. Ordinarily, the cycle would be either in front of, or behind the motor vehicle that it is now alongside. </span><span>Below is an example from one of the early Cycle Superhighways at Mile End.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1CzxspP6zwZC-s4NsdppGJl5BinE1Xl8-auWSyRGJLY2Z0TX0Lty_s4TiF0x8fATsWGBRzNCamyAM_ECe3Lwx5DaBlX0Q_kxOMsQ8pRx-_cu0CnXY3c1eZYWST_HTqmvRUeyniTLgPBA/s873/6B0659D3-4DF3-4F05-BE2F-B65D291CD7B2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="822" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1CzxspP6zwZC-s4NsdppGJl5BinE1Xl8-auWSyRGJLY2Z0TX0Lty_s4TiF0x8fATsWGBRzNCamyAM_ECe3Lwx5DaBlX0Q_kxOMsQ8pRx-_cu0CnXY3c1eZYWST_HTqmvRUeyniTLgPBA/s320/6B0659D3-4DF3-4F05-BE2F-B65D291CD7B2.jpeg" /></a></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As I have said, none of this is new. For many years cycle trainers, cycling organisations, the police and highway authorities have tried to raise awareness of this danger. Below is an image from a Metropolitan Police slide. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTEHbSAF5PG9vEpLKHiE_2D0uRrxgdcWyqkwcnQ9sQKqF3MZzuj5V0UqkOlh2ma_HEoSsEF6TOXNwfs8soG7MaBo8QvcZiMyry85TOGgCvJpZ5q7pq2IeNaL28O0tHmXPZ-vbx0rQSiQ/s792/77158EBF-A43C-4492-AF03-BCC54115C065.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="792" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTEHbSAF5PG9vEpLKHiE_2D0uRrxgdcWyqkwcnQ9sQKqF3MZzuj5V0UqkOlh2ma_HEoSsEF6TOXNwfs8soG7MaBo8QvcZiMyry85TOGgCvJpZ5q7pq2IeNaL28O0tHmXPZ-vbx0rQSiQ/s320/77158EBF-A43C-4492-AF03-BCC54115C065.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pop-up cycle lanes introduced in response to the pandemic, have the same problem. Below an example on Green Lanes.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLBBxZqr9ZhtUtS_16_onQy26clo5GBGYmLA6bGdyvm-hBq-yPXub77NCWRaM5pSJn01gfM-epSOT_IzbVYlWm5jH9pI6QeGsxGfKnKI1lgVs95UH9Zn8kWBpJAj_1bSZ9KEIonZyBBM/s2048/96857447-26EF-4FCC-B12C-1FF02A530812.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1540" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLBBxZqr9ZhtUtS_16_onQy26clo5GBGYmLA6bGdyvm-hBq-yPXub77NCWRaM5pSJn01gfM-epSOT_IzbVYlWm5jH9pI6QeGsxGfKnKI1lgVs95UH9Zn8kWBpJAj_1bSZ9KEIonZyBBM/w301-h400/96857447-26EF-4FCC-B12C-1FF02A530812.jpeg" width="301" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Mr. Wolmar also objected to the tweet below, in which I prompt readers to recognise the problem of turning right from a cycle lane on the far left of the carriageway, sometimes across two lanes. The video is from the DfT funded Bikeability training course for children. The video describes how cyclists are trained to safely turn right: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikXGlqnCSWE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikXGlqnCSWE</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNVvJv7hENCl7ekf6rj_ue25gpy4bif9q06juS2QuB2vvgJqTd65eAMYz5tJniFWoY54VWXzXEru_ujDMIEj9WdE2DwfLhply3yrKYWpIeMZj78sr6NnRTimIqw7jm2V0yJRAJ81grqhA/s1231/9144A6C1-FAAD-4C46-B6EF-FDC9F18264AC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="1231" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNVvJv7hENCl7ekf6rj_ue25gpy4bif9q06juS2QuB2vvgJqTd65eAMYz5tJniFWoY54VWXzXEru_ujDMIEj9WdE2DwfLhply3yrKYWpIeMZj78sr6NnRTimIqw7jm2V0yJRAJ81grqhA/w400-h274/9144A6C1-FAAD-4C46-B6EF-FDC9F18264AC.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="text-align: left;">To safely turn right cyclists are trained to follow a sequence of </p>
<ol style="list-style-type: lower-roman;">
<li style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">look; </li>
<li style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">indicate and </li>
<li style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">move into a central position. </li>
</ol>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How much distance is needed to perform this manoeuvre is dependent on traffic conditions, but it can be quite a distance, particularly if crossing two lanes in busy traffic. Often this manoeuvre is not possible from the confines of a cycle lane and the only safe way to turn right is to dismount and become a pedestrian, which rather defeats the object of cycling as a respectable transport mode - it infantilises cycling.</p><div><br /></div></span></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Below, the photo of a ‘pop-up’ lane approaching Newington Green from the north, illustrates the problem. There is now no safe way of leaving the cycle lane in order to position oneself in the right turn area ahead without at some point dodging through the bollards whilst looking behind.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2jgxqnRb3OFq0pxVkBGrpHQu2SByDOqTKlpX0eNYqsg9wnVo2ogOGuMrDMsVXqk-qa24K3IcGavAmACBOu4uZOWYmcAKJ6vPggT_zTTeRM-q_QIX_YUGu3e9xX8iGpStoNb6B8Akd2-E/s2048/119AB04D-B75F-4DE0-86BF-930939DC62BE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1540" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2jgxqnRb3OFq0pxVkBGrpHQu2SByDOqTKlpX0eNYqsg9wnVo2ogOGuMrDMsVXqk-qa24K3IcGavAmACBOu4uZOWYmcAKJ6vPggT_zTTeRM-q_QIX_YUGu3e9xX8iGpStoNb6B8Akd2-E/w301-h400/119AB04D-B75F-4DE0-86BF-930939DC62BE.jpeg" width="301" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-weight: bold;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I have thought about this a lot. Social media is a fact of life. Everyone has a right to their views and should be able to express them. I was not politically restricted and should have the same rights as journalists and board members of cycle campaign groups. For politicians this is important and the electorate are entitled to know one’s views. It is surprising and disappointing a journalist would seek to suppress others’ personal views.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Installing ‘protected’ cycle infrastructure is not as simple as the cycle lobby and Mr. Wolmar would have you believe. The situations I have outlined above are well recognised safety concerns and they are not being dealt with. Whether the problems can in fact be ‘dealt with’ inclusively is debatable. Endless campaigning and harrying of those who have and express these concerns does not mean the concerns themselves will go away or become irrelevant.</p></div><div><br /></div><div>Time will, of course tell, but I firmly believe the problems of cycle lanes for cyclists’ safety should be understood and debated, certainly not suppressed.</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Further reading</span></b></div></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;">If you want to read some proper research for yourself, there is a DfT commissioned assessment: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span>Cycling and Walking Safety: a rapid evidence assessment for the Department for Transport: </span></span><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/951097/Cycling_and_walking_safety_rapid_evidence_assessment.pdf">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/951097/Cycling_and_walking_safety_rapid_evidence_assessment.pdf</a></span></div></div></blockquote><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">and a Danish study: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Bicycle Tracks and Lanes, a Before and After Study: </span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237524182_Bicycle_Tracks_and_Lanes_a_Before-After_Study">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237524182_Bicycle_Tracks_and_Lanes_a_Befo</a></span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237524182_Bicycle_Tracks_and_Lanes_a_Before-After_Study" style="font-family: arial;">e-After_Study</a></div></blockquote><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Post script: </b><b>More and safer cycling</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There are interventions that can improve cycle safety and they are well known:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Slower speed initiatives;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Motor traffic reduction;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Targeted remodelling of junctions:</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Education and enforcement -get some training: <a href="https://bikeability.org.uk/bikeability-training/bikeability-level-3/">https://bikeability.org.uk/bikeability-training/bikeability-level-3/</a></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p></div>ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-22405598708507535652020-12-13T10:21:00.004-08:002021-05-07T02:40:59.976-07:00What do the Dutch and London household travel surveys tell us about modal share and sustainable transport?<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I havn’t blogged for a long time, but the publication by TfL of travel statistics earlier this year and similar data from the Dutch household travel survey allows a good comparison between Hackney and Dutch cities that is worthy of comment.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In May 2020 TfL published a guide for boroughs that included results from its London household travel survey. The sample size is small at borough level and so the data for three years is combined. The survey gets a 50% response rate. It’s a long running survey and a reasonable statistic. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The table of mode share by borough, can be found at: (</span><a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/boroughs-and-communities/streetspace-funding" style="font-family: arial;">https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/boroughs-and-communities/streetspace-funding</a><span style="font-family: arial;">).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In late 2019 the Dutch ministry of infrastructure published its ‘Mobiliteitsbeeld 2019‘ at: <a href="https://www.kimnet.nl/binaries/kimnet/documenten/rapporten/2019/11/12/mobiliteitsbeeld-2019-vooral-het-gebruik-van-de-trein-neemt-toe/Mobiliteitsbeeld+2019.pdf">https://www.kimnet.nl/binaries/kimnet/documenten/rapporten/2019/11/12/mobiliteitsbeeld-2019-vooral-het-gebruik-van-de-trein-neemt-toe/Mobiliteitsbeeld+2019.pdf</a> . </span><span style="font-family: arial;">This is a national compendium of transport statistics and includes modal share charts and commentary from their national household survey for five Dutch cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht and Eindhoven. This too is a long running survey.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So what does the Dutch survey tell us?</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Below is ‘Figure P1.1.3: Mode of transport distribution for journeys from, to and within the five major cities. Source: CBS, OViN 2015-2017’.</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Clearly the Dutch cycle a lot, but they also drive a lot. Even in Amsterdam and Utrecht, both regarded as high cycling level cities, there are a lot of car trips. In the table below, both of the green segments are car trips: as driver and passenger. Utrecht has the lowest car share of trips at 27%, Eindhoven the highest at 52%.</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As an aside, the Netherlands has a very high density of motorway compared to its European counterparts.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFg8tEZi_7zC8KTP6qOWLNH1dQJ1FUesLSCi_8t32B5H7x3W-XxUgCj2uZv497EV-RidBTLgLOHOEae_QPbt3fDM0LJYoItnVGGLChyI-mxPwjfssjwrNOzeXT1ShFreAZ8QAakHSOnrI/s1957/63C54A13-E510-4F41-8549-F886821CDD38.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1327" data-original-width="1957" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFg8tEZi_7zC8KTP6qOWLNH1dQJ1FUesLSCi_8t32B5H7x3W-XxUgCj2uZv497EV-RidBTLgLOHOEae_QPbt3fDM0LJYoItnVGGLChyI-mxPwjfssjwrNOzeXT1ShFreAZ8QAakHSOnrI/w640-h434/63C54A13-E510-4F41-8549-F886821CDD38.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A Google translation of the accompanying text above states:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The five major cities in the Netherlands differ in the use of transport modes, when we consider the total number of journeys from, to and within the city. The use of the car is dominant in Eindhoven and Rotterdam, with 52% and 45% respectively of all trips made. Car use in Amsterdam (31%) and Utrecht (27%) is considerably lower. In these cities, the so-called 'active modes' (walking and cycling) have a high share in the trips made: 46% for Amsterdam and 44% for Utrecht. The Hague occupies a middle position, with a share of 42% for the car and 40% for walking and cycling. In the three largest cities, the share of bus, tram and metro is around 10%.</i></span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #202124; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">So how does Hackney do? The table below is derived from the TfL data. The order of modes is the same as the Dutch publication and the colours matched. Walk is highest, followed by the public transport modes. Cycle is at 8.5%, far higher than any other London borough. 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But they also drive twice the number of trips of Hackney residents. The Dutch walk much less than their Hackney counterparts. Use of public transport is far more significant in Hackney than in any of these Dutch cities. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Public Health recognises public transport as ‘active travel’ and as such Hackney has both higher levels of sustainable transport than these Dutch cities. It also has higher levels of active travel</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">.</span></div><p></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #202124; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #202124; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #202124; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-4068119327508898922018-02-04T04:30:00.002-08:002019-02-02T20:15:14.672-08:00Planning for cycling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Mayor of London has undertaken a 'Strategic Cycling Analysis'. He recently announced six 'Strategic cycle routes', one of which is between Lea Bridge and Dalston. However, neither the Mayor, nor anyone else has an informed idea of cyclists' "preferred route(s)”. Nor is a process of calling something a "preferred route” any basis for making decisions about investment in more and safer cycling, nor does it increase the chances of getting local support for any proposal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In this blog I describe why planning cycle routes always disappoints and suggest a better way to plan for more and safer cycling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">First, a bit of history. Planning cycle “routes” has been around a long time. In 1989, London local government promoted a 1000 mile 'Strategic Cycling Network'. This was followed by the 'London Cycling Network' (LCN) in 1997 which had a target of achieving a 10% cycle mode share by 2012. The target was never achieved and mode share in London is even now barely 3%. The LCN was superseded in 2004 by a variant, the 'London Cycling Network PLUS' (LCN+). The idea behind LCN+ was to focus more on where cyclists wanted to cycle and was considerably shorter (planned to be 900 km by 2009/10). More recently, the Boris / Gilligan 'Cycling Vision' gave us 'Superhighways' (with blue paint and concrete kerb variants), 'Quietways' and 'London Grid' routes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Why cycle route planning disappoints</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The first reason that planning in terms of cycle “routes” fails is graphically illustrated by the output from the <a href="https://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2014/07/06/cycle-hackney-app/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #551a8b;">Hackney Cycle App</span></a> This 'App.' records real cycle journeys through Hackney made by real Hackney cyclists with all their different journey purposes and different needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">From this real data, it is evident that cyclists neither start nor finish from particular identifiable points, nor do they choose any single route. The map below demonstrates that the Mayor of London will be spoilt for choice of “strategic cycle route”, even between the few kilometres between Lea Bridge and Dalston and he is sure to miss many cyclists’ preferred route.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The second reason for failure of route planning for cycles is more important than the question of what makes a route “strategic” or “preferred”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> t</span>he cycle bloggers, twitterati and campaigners demand safe routes; </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">But it never quite works out. The approach takes too little account of what is actually encountered on the ground. Moreover it takes no account of the local politics of transport. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">On the ground the street is sometimes wide then narrow, footfall high and then low. There are bus lanes, bus stops, bus passengers, town centre uses (shops, shopping, deliveries), pedestrians, narrow pavements, wide pavement, busy road intersections, side streets, roundabouts, one-way streets and parked vehicles. There are markets and churches and mosques, blind people, older, less mobile people, trees, pillar boxes, telephone boxes, advertising hoardings and wifi kiosks. There are all manner of utilities above and below ground. Moving them costs a small fortune. And this is not a comprehensive list of all the contested demands for space in normal city life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The roads can be residential or part of London’s Strategic Road Network and used by either 10s of vehicles an hour or tens of thousands. Every road junction is different. But the unachievable demands of the cycle lobby are for the same level of service, end to end, but this will never be possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Every yard of London's streets is contested and compromised. Shoehorning bike lanes into streets that have multiple users and uses is the primary reason for the continual failure of cycle route planning and why it so often disappoints. Often the compromises are worse than doing nothing, even for the cyclist. This happens too often, and continues, because of the ongoing adherence to the concept of “cycle routes”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Even the politics of places makes a difference. A bike lane was shoehorned into Whitechapel High Street and Mile End. There was no local opposition apart from the stall holders of the historic market who managed to reduce the impact of the cycle track on their access, but that annoyed the cycle campaigners because they lost their kerb protection for a long stretch of road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The pavement at Whitechapel was narrowed, bus stops designed around the needs of cycles. The end result is a degraded pedestrian environment for the overwhelming majority of the street's users. For cyclists it is a mixed bag of a cycle track that is variously 'protected', but in other locations dangerous, such as at the junction of Commercial Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">But in Chiswick the politics are different. A two-way cycle track is planned even though this is recognised as poor practice because of the additional risks of cycles travelling in an unexpected direction. But the council and TfL will have a much harder fight with the church, the middle classes and the Tory party locally opposing the scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Finally, cycle route planning is an inefficient use of finite resources. It focuses far too much on the links (the sections between the junctions) rather than the road intersections where most (80+%) of the collisions that injure cyclists occur. </span></div>
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The cost of moving the kerb lines of London's streets is astronomical (£1 million to £5 million a mile) because it can often mean moving underground utilities, water, gas, telecom, etc. Often these costs are incurred not for any good cycle safety reason, but just to try to introduce a continuous level of service that, it is said, will encourage cycling by improving the perception of cycling. </span></div>
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</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Reading the <a href="http://content.tfl.gov.uk/pic-161130-07-cycle-quietways.pdf" style="color: #551a8b;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);">TfL report of the final cost of of the initial section of East to West cycle superhighway</span></a><span style="color: #551a8b;"> </span>is sobering:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The project originally cost £40m, BUT OVER RAN BY £18! </span></div>
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</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The cost benefit analysis that <a href="http://content.tfl.gov.uk/board-20150204-part-1-item-07a-propose-csh-scheme.pdf" style="color: #551a8b;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);">TfL reported to its Board in February 2015</span></a> was </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">-£200m. Yes minus £200million, including huge additional annual costs of £8 million pa to the bus network.</span></div>
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The Hackney to Haringey schemes, Superhighway 1, is generally a good scheme through Hackney. It had a positive cost to benefit ratio and didn't damage the bus service, but £17million could have been spent to benefit cycling more wisely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The results of all this is plain to see, there are so many examples of compromised schemes, too numerous to record. Minimum standards are routinely ignored and poor designs implemented. There are sections of road on so-called segregated “routes” where there is in fact no separation. This is inevitable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">From the cyclists perspective, the supposed beneficiaries of these “routes” the end result is poor. The rest of us, all other road users, have to put up with all manner of disruption to our daily journeys. The pedestrian environment is degraded and bus services poorer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">At Tottenham, the most bizarre section of the Boris / Gilligan Superhighway 1 is the section on the pavement outside of Seven Sisters Tube. The need for continuity in cycle route planning trumps everything!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I've blogged about bus stops before. The fit, young cycle campaigners want to convert thousands of bus stops to suit their needs not the needs of bus passengers, many of whom are quite vulnerable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In Camden there is a strange variant of bus stop / cycle track because there is so little space.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">At Whitechapel over 30 bus stops have been redesigned for cyclists. Many of them are far too busy or the pavement too narrow for such an intervention, but the demand ifor a cycle route has led to an end cycle route treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">There aren't sensible answers to the unachievable demands of the cycle bloggers who want networks of cycle routes suitable for 8 year olds to cycle at will. But there are much better, pragmatic, good value for money interventions to enable more and safer cycling by a wider demographic on London's streets. Reading the peer reviewed <a href="http://www.roadsafetyobservatory.com/Review/10143"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #551a8b;">Road Safety Observatory research synthesis</span></a> should be required reading for those planning for cycling because it addresses these issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Trevor and Oliver previously coordinators of Hackney Cycling, and their predecessor all understood this. They would say the priority should be firstly to consider the network, then the node (or junction). And only then, the links between the junctions. Hackney thus avoided demands for cycle specific infrastructure for years and spent the monies associated with cycle routes wisely. </span></div>
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If you want to invest wisely in more and safer cycling, then area wide interventions to create genuinely quite streets are best. They achieve far more that planning eye wateringly expensive routes of varying usefulness to cyclists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Controlled Parking Zones, enforced slower speeds and closing residential and minor streets to through traffic is the most cost effective intervention to improve cycling, without unacceptable impacts on other users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In addition there should be programmes to address those junctions that are most problematical for cycles and reduce the dangers of main roads for everyone: </span></div>
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<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">wider inside lanes and bus lanes so cycle can pass bus and </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">bus pass cycle;</span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">extended operational hours for bus lanes;</span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">reduced parking on main roads;</span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">side road entry treatments to slow turning movements;</span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">road closures to reduce motor vehicles turning into rat runs;</span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">bus and cycle only streets;</span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">slower speeds initiatives;</span></li>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Training is recommended for those taking up cycling, because most of London’s streets will be as they are now in ten years time. And please don't encourage poor cycling with nominal cycle lanes and tracks on the pavement that keep cycles too far left and unprepared for a right turn.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cycle training will teach you to position yourself behind the bus, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not where the highways engineers paint the lines</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Some quick wins for Hackney's main roads for pedestrians, cycles and bus passengers would easily and cheaply be achieved by extending the operational hours of bus lanes on the A10 and the removal of some of the parking on Hackney Road. Taking out the through, non-bus traffic, from Amhurst Road, in Hackney Central would transform the area at a stroke. And these things would finance themselves by savings to the bus network!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you wanted to do some useful highways engineering in Hackney instead of ‘strategic cycle routes’ you would remodel the Pembury junction, the Hackney Central junctions, Stamford Hill Broadway and Middleton Road at its junction with Kingsland Road. And, of course, revert the Stoke Newington and Victoria gyratories to two-way operation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you wanted to do some useful area wide interventions you would close residential streets to through traffic in already designed schemes for Wenlock Barn, London Fields and Walford Road and create a network of genuinely quiet streets - all Hackney's residential streets should look like De Beauvoir Town. This creates quieter streets, but also safer main roads by reducing turning movements off of main roads into rat runs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">The overwhelming proportion </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">(80%+) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">of collisions that result in injury to cyclists occur at intersections. Targeting improvement at these locations along with slower speed initiatives and traffic reduction should be the key road safety interventions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, the cycle bloggers who frame cycling as a dangerous activity, also tell us that cyclists must 'feel' safe. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cyclists, they say, cannot pass the bus, nor the bus pass the cycle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The solution is the 'bus stop bypass' - cycles are routed through the pavement and around the back of the bus stop. Pedestrians and bus passengers have to watch out for cycles and dodge them when necessary. If they get hit, then that's OK because its not as bad as getting hit by a vehicle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is clearly disrespectful of bus passengers and pedestrians who will now 'feel' unsafe and worry about cycles, when previously they were safe on the pavement. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are all manner of vulnerable people at bus stops, older, blind and partially sighted people, some with learning difficulties. The groups that represent these groups generally oppose these changes to bus stops, but aren't listened to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below are an assortment of what London government has come up with to accommodate the cycle bloggers. They are coming to a bus stop near you</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and will degrade the pedestrian environment.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Bus passengers will just have to put up with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bus stop bypass needs a lot of pavement width and so the boroughs are mimicking the bus stop bypass with an even more problematic solution - the cycle lane that passes directly through where passengers wait, board and alight. Passengers effectively step into the path of the cycle!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Waltham Forest, an award winning borough, have lots to spend on bus stops to the detriment of bus passengers. The borough has numerous examples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Camden is said by the bloggers to be a good cycling borough. They have installed the bike lane below, squeezed between shelter, post box and pedestrians. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This Royal College Street stop is very busy with passengers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of London's busiest bus stops is at Elephant and Castle. Here the bike lane is squeezed in behind two stops and the building line. On the opposite side of the road it was just too difficult so they moved half the passengers around the corner where they would be less problematic for the bikers.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Passengers have no political power</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and have lost the pavement at Elephant</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Back to Royal College Street, the Camden award winner. At night or when its raining, you're on your way home. Be sure to watch out for cycles through your stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enfield have introduced dozens of stops along the A105. There are different designs that keep elderly bus passengers on their toes. Cycles go through the boarding and alighting area on some, around the back of others. Fortunately there are neither many bus passengers, nor cycles in Enfield, but the main demographic of passengers will be older people and they now have to negotiate this.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Whitechapel High Street, one of London's busiest high streets is now blighted by the paraphernalia of bike lanes. There are over 30 stops between Stratford and Aldgate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">It should be a great city street, but now there is no chance of that. Six inch kerbs ensure its really uncomfortable and unpleasant being a pedestrian. But pedestrians are not what the pavements have been designed for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And so it goes on. Every location is different and so the designers have come up with a different solution for each. No one has worried about the bus passengers, how much space there is for them or how many passengers there are. Bus passengers fit around the biker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">London has thousands of bus stops with any number of vulnerable passengers that have hitherto been able to use their bus stops in relative comfort. Some are blind or partially sighted, old, mobility impaired, some with learning difficulties or just travelling home in the rain at night. All will have to put up with what the cycle bloggers call space for cycling whether they like it or not. This is unfair and disrespectful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'flag ship' cycle lanes Waltham Forest are installing contain a double whammy for bus passengers. Not only does it run cycles through the bus stops they have used the eastbound bus lane for the cycle lanes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr Rachel Aldred has just published her latest <a href="http://rachelaldred.org/writing/thoughts/return-to-wick-road-1-this-could-be-a-game-changer/">blog</a>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In which she states:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-kerning: none;">"Each year, Hackney consistently has more cyclist than pedestrian casualties."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But is this true?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr Aldred doesn't tell us how many, nor which years her comment refers to. The data for years 2000 to 2015 is published. 2016 data is not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These casualty figures are set against a backdrop of a significant growth in the population - 70,000 or 35%, additional residents since 2001 and a significant rise in the popularity of cycling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From these graphs it is clear that Dr Aldred's comment that Hackney consistently has more cycling than pedestrian </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">casualties</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> isn't true. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is even less the case</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> if one does as cycle campaigners suggest and one were able to consider casualties per mile cycled, because there is much more cycling now than there was in 2000.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">between 2000 and 2015 there were 17 cycle fatalities compared to 47 pedestrian fatalities; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">there were 379 serious cycle injuries compared to 706 pedestrian serious injuries between 2000 and 2015, and that the annual figure is fairly stable despite the large growth of cycling in Hackney;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that cycle collisions resulting in a minor injury are increasing as cycling becomes more popular in Hackney. There is also an upward trend in pedestrian collisions resulting in a minor injury.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every injury is a personal tragedy. But If one were interested in the truth, rather than being determined to frame cycling as a dangerous activity, one would say that Hackney council has been successful in its borough-wide approach to cycle and pedestrian road safety since 2000. It is a testament to all those involved and should not be undermined. The rate of c</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ycle fatalities and serious injuries is reducing. Slight injuries to cyclists are increasing, but below the rate of increase in cycling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the record he graph below shows Hackney killed and serious injuries for all modes on Hackney's streets and in total.</span><br />
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ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-51148591940311531152017-03-17T13:05:00.001-07:002017-03-22T12:06:40.305-07:00Cycling is getting safer In London<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://cycleandwalkhackney.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/fact-checking-recent-hackney-cycling.html">fact checked</a></span><span id="goog_781566959"></span><span id="goog_781566960"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the</span> recent Hackney Cycling Campaign's cycle safety <a href="https://hackney.cc/category/news/"><b><span style="color: blue;">press release</span></b></a> . In this Blog I describe <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what </span>you can reasonably discern from the published statistics on cycling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Firstly, you can only meaningfully consider casualty rates from a London wide perspective, because although we know how many casualties there are in each borough each year, there is no reliable cycling volume statistic available <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for individual boroughs.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Transport for London (TfL) publish estimated cycling trips <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">statistic</span>s for the whole of London in their <a href="http://content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-london-report-9.pdf"><span style="color: blue;"><b>annual statistical publications</b></span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "\22 \\22 arial\\22 \22 " , "\22 \\22 helvetica\\22 \22 " , sans-serif;">Though it must be noted that this is a statistic of trips, not miles travelled</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. These</span> are </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">available on their website. The Department for Transport (DfT) publish the Met police statistics of collisions and casualties. This data is also available on the </span><a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/road-safety" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>TfL site</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The growth in cycling trips is shown in the graph below. Cycling more than doubled between 1995 and 2015.</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(The upturn is associated with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the introduction of congestion charging in early 2003.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the same time, 1995 to 2015, the number of cycling casualties (all severities, minor to fatal) dipped and then rose again. These figures are shown in the graph below.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Absolute casualty figures since 1995</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These </span>statistics can be represented</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on the same graph by equating both of the 1995 figures to 100 and showing the following years relative to 100. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The resulting graph shows how cycling has risen as casualty numbers remain broadly constant.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cycling trips have increased whilst casualty figures have remained constant since 1995</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The same representation can be repeated with the data on serious and fatal injuries. These are smaller numbers and so there is more variation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And also with fatalities only. Here there is even more variability when comparing one year to the nex<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A reasonable conclusion from these statistics is that cycling is getting safer in London.</span>
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ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-74208245289466019182017-03-06T12:35:00.001-08:002017-03-06T12:35:51.767-08:00Fact checking the recent Hackney Cycling Campaign road safety press release<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was intrigued when the @Hackney_cycling twitter account announced: "</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is there any safety in numbers?" I clicked on the link to their website that says:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"New analysis of police injury data known as Stats19 carried out for Hackney Cyclists by Dr. Rachel Aldred shows worrying trends in the borough."</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And from Dr. Aldred:</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Clearly cycling in Hackney has grown during this period, perhaps roughly doubling, but it’s a concern that there doesn’t seem to be much of a ‘safety in numbers’ effect for cyclists – in other words it hasn’t got much safer per trip, as cycling has gone up.’</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The full statement taken from the Hackney Cycling website is reproduced at the bottom of this page.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the Hackney Cycli<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ng <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Campaign</span></span> analysis is partial and misleading. So here is a fact check of Dr. Aldred's 'analysis'. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The claim is that </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">cycle casualt<span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">ies</span> went up in Hackney </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">between 2005 and 2015 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">along with the numbers of cyclists</span>, but that safety had not improve</span><span style="background-color: white;">d 'per trip'. The analysis states that there were 134 cycling casualties in Hackney in 2005 and that this went up to 250 in 2015. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Aldred's figure for 2015 is one out, it is actually 249, h<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">owever, this equa<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tes to an 86%</span></span> rise between 2005 and 2015.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">These figures are reliable, but care should be exercised in their use. T<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">h</span>e number of casualties can vary quite markedly from one year to the next and picking out two years figures to compare can be misleading. Looking at the trends and averages over three years is both more meaningful and more usual.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> For the readers benefit t</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">he graph below shows the figures for casualties in Hackney between 2001 and 2015.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the numerator is correct. But, how did Dr. Aldred arrive at the denominator in the 'analysis'? This is described in the press release:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Clearly cycling in Hackney has grown during this period, <b>perhaps roughly doubling..."</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So there we have it,</span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"> the denominator in the equa<span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">tion</span> is <span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">made up</span>! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'analysis' turns out to be a guess: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(134 ÷ 249) ÷ (perhaps roughly doubling)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But can we do better than Dr Aldred, or at least understand the complexities? I think so.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">There is no reliable cycle volume data, particularly at a London borough level. Transport for London has London wide data, but there is very great variability between boroughs and Hackney is an outlier in cycle statistics. The Department for Transport (DfT) publish some data for Hackney, but <span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">it is not very accurate at a borough level<span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"> because it is a small sample count of cycles</span> and only on main roads.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only reliable <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">statistic for the</span> increase in cycling in Hackney is the Census figures for 'Method of travel to work'. But even these figures are limited to travel to work and they are now quite dated. The figures that are available are for 2001 and 2011. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So, below is the same calculation that Dr Aldred has done, but taking the years that have a reliable statistic for both cycling levels as well as casualties. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Between 2001 and 2011 in Hackney casualties rose from 134 to 259 (93%). In the same period cycle to work Census figures rose proportionately much more, from 4940 to 17312 (250%). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(259 ÷ 134) ÷ (17312 ÷ 4940) = 0.55</span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In conclusion. Over the only period for which there is a reliable and comparable statistic for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">growth</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in cycling (2001 to 2011) the casualty rate has dropped markedly. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the period Dr Aldred has 'analysed' there are no cycle volume figures and so Dr Aldred has <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">guessed what</span></span> the growth in cycling might be. Can such a poor analysis be regarded as good practice in either the academic or policy development milieus?</span></span><br />
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New analysis of police injury data known as Stats19 carried out for Hackney Cyclists by Dr. Rachel Aldred shows worrying trends in the borough. Hit and runs are on the increase, and are now happening at a rate of one every two days. While 11% – just over one in ten – of all injury collisions across Britain involve a hit and run vehicle, the figure’s higher in London (15%, or around one in seven) and an even higher one in five in Hackney. And while one in five sounds high enough, it’s one in four for collisions where a pedestrian or cyclist is injured.</div>
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Jono Kenyon, Co-ordinator of Hackney Cyclists, says ‘<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">One of our three ‘asks’ for Hackney mayoral candidates was a higher priority for roads traffic policing. Hundreds of people are injured on Hackney’s roads every year while walking and cycling. Road traffic offences, from close passes to hit and runs, need to be tackled to help make our roads safer for everyone</i>.’</div>
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Since 2005, injuries to cyclists to Hackney have increased, and although numbers have been falling in recent years, in 2015 there were almost twice as many cyclists injured in Hackney as there were in 2005 (250 vs. 134). Over the same period pedestrian injuries have been roughly stable but car and taxi occupant injuries have decreased. Dr. Aldred comments ‘Clearly cycling in Hackney has grown during this period, perhaps roughly doubling, but it’s a concern that there doesn’t seem to be much of a ‘safety in numbers’ effect for cyclists – in other words it hasn’t got much safer per trip, as cycling has gone up.’</div>
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ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-35913478672643011562016-10-22T05:02:00.004-07:002016-10-23T04:09:58.372-07:00Congestion or congestion charging?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">London's congested roads are always a talking point for Londoners, motorists, bus passengers, cabbies, cycle campaigners and the papers they read. Last weekend the Sunday Times had an <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drivers-spend-up-to-12-days-a-year-in-jams-dh3s0q7sm?shareToken=57d8369b2a9bc94798e4fa9c756ac346">article</a> re-hashing previous commentary. It reports that Lord Wolfson of the Next chain has offered a reward of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37644577">£250,000</a> to find a solution. There is to be a <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/transport-committee/news-parliament-2015/urban-congestion-launch-16-17/">Parliamentary Select Committee</a> to look at urban congestion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everyone points the finger elsewhere. The black cabbies blame the explosion in the number of PHVs, as well as the cycle lanes and pedicabs; PHV operators tell us they mainly operate during quieter periods so it's not them, it's a loss of road capacity. Peter Hendy, the then London Transport Commissioner pointed out that everyone from the Chief Exec down, including himself were having their Amazon parcels delivered to their central London offices during peak hours. Cycle campaigners say it's not them, nor is it the new bike tracks, which, they say, will in the end, be a solution for congestion. Bizarrely there is quite a head of steam behind the notion that buses, the most space efficient mode are part of the problem - the 8000 buses in London are causing more delays than the 2.6 million private cars!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Add to all of this the fact of population rise and jobs growth </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(the biggest cause of increased travel demand in London) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the near certainty of more to come; the fall in fuel price, rise in public transport costs and lots more construction sites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So how to solve it? Solutions abound. From the cyclists, it's greater use of cargo bikes and even more cycle tracks. The cabbies want a limit on PHV numbers and restraint on them competing as hailable vehicles. Some say more technology is needed. Rephasing the traffic lights is always offered up as a solution; managing traffic as London did for two weeks during the Olympics is suggested. The latest technology is the shared autonomous vehicle which is so clever it will travel closer to the car in front leaving more space (for more cars). Night time deliveries are to be part of a solution as is freight consolidation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This all matters. The cost of us all sitting in traffic in London is counted in billions. It's a massive part of the pollution problem - even cars running on fresh air would create small particle pollution from their tyres. Too many people are being injured on our roads - a direct consequence of designing our road system for huge numbers of motor vehicles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But none of the above solutions go anywhere near solving this problem. It is an uncomfortable truth - no amount of freight consolidation, cargo bikes, cycling, rephasing of traffic lights even bus lanes will solve this problem. Modal shift is great. Of course the use of the most space efficient modes and many of the other ideas should be encouraged. However research tells us that there is so much travel demand in London that if the travel behaviour of one motorist changes (to a more space-efficient mode), the space that's freed up will be filled by another motorist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Along with changing travelling habits any freed up road space should not simply be occupied by others taking the opportunity for private car travel. In the jargon, there has to be a mechanism to 'lock-in' the benefits of modal switch and one proven method is roads pricing. Roads pricing is simple. The user of road space pays directly for its use and at busier times in busier locations pays more. Others pay less for their travel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And this is not new. In 1963 the Ministry of Transport published the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeed_Report">Smeed report</a>: it said you can only manage congestion by permit or price. There can not be a single academic or practitioner that works in the field of transport planning that would challenge the view that roads pricing has to be part of any sensible policy to manage roads in urban areas. The choice is simple: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And it's really not good enough to keep coming up with clever forms of words to avoid this. It is too important and the solutions have been delayed too long. Politicians should be debating how best to to persuade the public and how best to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">implement roads pricing, and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not simply finding excuses to leave it it up to the next generation to solve.</span><br />
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<br />ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-51034612759592733632016-10-14T22:33:00.001-07:002016-10-16T00:05:00.017-07:00The closure of Wordswoth Road<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am privileged to live where I do on the Stoke Newington ladder roads. We live in a 20 mph zone enforced by speed cushions. There's a 6 day a week, 12 hour controlled parking zone (CPZ). Next week the council will stop through motor traffic by means of three point closures and my neighbourhood (see map below) will become a quieter and pleasanter place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Along with over a thousand residents, three local schools will benefit, as will hundreds of cyclists and pedestrians who pass through. Overall, prioritising cycles and keeping them on the carriageway is by far the best way of providing for cycling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seen on their own the closures are just a minor local scheme. But they are part of Hackney's hugely successful strategy for incremental change to: "create a better balance between walking, cycling and motor vehicles". These closures along with over 100 others are shown on the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zRPuiK-Tds8s.kdbexlOjc18c&usp=sharing">map</a> that prompted our local MP to say in Parliament:</span><br />
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ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-19529498218415578402016-07-29T20:06:00.003-07:002016-07-29T20:06:45.182-07:00Towards a Fine City for People<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(8, 3, 2); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #080302; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Reflecting on transport policy and practice in London over the last 15 years the high point must surely be 2004. The Mayor had introduced the congestion charge, the London Bus Initiative was transforming bus services, Trafalgar Square and the Shoreditch one-way system were radically overhauled to prioritise the sustainable modes: walk, cycle and bus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Topping all of this, the world’s foremost urbanist, Jan Gehl, had been commissioned to develop a blue print to make London a liveable city for people. His report, <i>Towards a Fine City for People</i> <a href="http://plangate.no/mennesker/Gehl%20-%2028781_Executive_Summary.pdf">http://plangate.no/mennesker/Gehl%20-%2028781_Executive_Summary.pdf</a><i> </i>was a masterpiece. It was a simple programme of change, but at the same time a sophisticated analysis of that which is far from obvious: people like living in cities in close proximity to other people if there are good quality, legible, human scale, clean environments that are not dominated by motor vehicles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The then Mayor, Livingstone, made steady progress with this agenda. In Hackney great improvements were made transforming what was once a poor streetscape for the better. Jan visited in 2013 and described the Mare Street commercial area as a ‘great city street’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But progress on transforming London into a liveable city slowed dramatically when Mayor Johnson first chose to remove the western extension of the congestion charging zone, then ‘smooth traffic flow’ (a code for enabling private motor vehicular transport), all but abandoned a bus priority programme and latterly focused almost exclusively, and at considerable expense on movement by cycle. </span></div>
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ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-91686600366193502862015-12-12T03:45:00.000-08:002015-12-17T18:34:58.233-08:00Why close streets to through traffic? A personal view.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>Hackney has benefited from reducing and slowing traffic through measures such as humps, parking zones, improving junctions—which remains the biggest challenge in any city, particularly London—and, as I mentioned earlier, assigning quieter routes off main roads. <b>In fact, it is possible to cycle around the backstreets of Hackney and rarely meet a moving car. That is what gives me the confidence to cycle slowly in my own little way.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">London is currently a city of 8.6 million inhabitants and that will rise to 10 million in a relatively short time. The population of a single Borough, Hackney, grew by 20% between Census 2001 and 2011 and 15,000 more homes were built in the borough in that time period.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Hackney</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> has to deliver even more homes to meet demand - at least 1,500 homes each year. Looking b</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eyond Hackney, half of all new homes in London are due to be built in the East of London. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If car ownership in all new Hackney households </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be at similar levels to that of</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the borough's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">existing households (at 35% the lowest in the UK) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">there</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> would </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be an additional</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 525 private motor vehicles per year moving or parked on Hackney roads. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">TfL has forecast </span> rises in congestion of 25% for inner London </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(http://content.tfl.gov.uk/stp-20140409-part-1-item07-roads-task-force-update.pdf )</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are city-wide problems of physical inactivity, vehicle polluti</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">on, climate change and housing those in need. How we travel has a bearing on all these problems.</span>The figures are conceptually staggering, and unsustainable! It is imperative that we change the way we travel.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hackney has prioritised the bus on bus routes. The best exam<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ple on </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact, Hackney has been at the forefront (by a very long way) and has de facto taken the lead in changing how we travel in London. Hackney's public transportation has improved beyond recognition with the expansion of rail services and the prioritisation of the bus on its roads. Hackney has improved the pedestrian and cycling environment more than any other London borough with myriad interventions; from high quality paving and 20mph zones on its' residential streets<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s</span>peed tables <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on</span> many of the borough's roads (creating a lower speed environment); to the removal of pedestrian guard railing and pavement parking. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kingsland High Street at Dalston Kingsland is a street for walking</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There have also been major <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">street</span> improvement projects. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O</span>ur shopping streets at Dalston Kingsland, Mare Street in Hackney Central, Stoke Newington Church St and Broadway Market have been transformed, in a manner that encourages informal crossing of streets for shopping and commerce, with space for people to linger and chat, as well as to circulate.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Car-free development has helped to reduce the number of private <br />vehicles in the borough</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hackney has benefited from being part of the congestion charge zone, itself an initiative which has contributed to reducing private motor traffic and increasing bus use and cycling in the borough. Controlled parking has been introduced across much of the borough and almost all (9<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7</span>%) of new housing development is car-free, which means that new home owners purchase </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">those homes knowing that they </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will not be entitled to an on-street car parking permit. This basket of measures reduces the prevalence of private car use and allows better public use to be made of the public space of our streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition, and over many years, large areas of Hackney have had streets closed to through motor traffic, which improves the environment on those streets for cycling and walking and, crucially, simply for living on. More recently Hackney has ensured that these closures are easily passable by cycles. The most well known area to have had this treatment is De Beauvoir Town in the west of Hackney. Here much of the through traffic has been excluded for a generation and the streets are great for cycling and for walking.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">De Beauvoir Town. The most photographed of all area wide filtered </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are other sizeable residential areas in Hackney which have received similar street scene treatment to De Beauvoir Town. Finsbury Park; Lower Clapton; the part of Hackney which abuts the City of London, south of Great Eastern Street; and the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stoke Newington ladder roads south of Church Stree<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t are</span> some of the larger schemes.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">Palatine Road, one of the point closures that has had an area wide impact </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Smaller areas have also benefited from such interventions, including the area behind Hackney town hall. New Kingshold estate w<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as</span> regenerated in the recent past and ha<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s</span> been designed with street patterns that exclude through traffic.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> There are many<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span>single point closures too - Downs Park Road east of Hackney Downs<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span>Ashwin Street in Dalston<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for example</span>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Closing streets to through traffic, alongside the many other measures mentioned above, provides a good and ever improving, </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">area-wide </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cycling and walking environment. However, the objective is not simply to move vehicular traffic from one street to the next, but as part of a strategy to bring down the overall volumes of traffic across the borough's roads. Closures will restrain some motor vehicle journeys through and originating from the area. Not all vehicular journeys will simply be displaced, and over time there will be net reduction in traffic volumes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hackney's proactive and consistent approach has meant that it has the most enviable transport statistics in
the UK. More residents cycle to work than drive. The number of walking trips
doubled in just ten years between the Census years 2001 and 2011. The proportion
of residents using the bus is higher than anywhere else in the UK. More
children are cycling to school, building on the very high numbers who presently
walk. Car ownership is among the lowest in the UK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It is important to see these measures, not in isolation, but as having a cumulative effect. Part of the effect is an increase in physical activity, as people walk - to the shops, to their work, or to their public transport. Public health professionals do not distinguish, in general, between the relative physical advantages of, say, cycling, over walking or walking to get to public transport. What is important is the physical activity in all three cases. Creating a more welcoming environment for walking, cycling and the use of public transport - and for living in - is one of the main strategic aims of transport planning. Taken on their own, the measures that Hackney has implemented may not seem to contribute to reduced congestion, more active lifestyles, a reduction in emissions and a more liveable, denser city. However, as our MP said, even for her, an occasional, not a committed user of the bicycle, Hackney's streets are welcoming and encouraging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Hackney, and London generally, should continue to improve the
alternatives to the private car. Selectively closing streets to through traffic </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">- while maintaining and enabling access to properties for builders, plumbers, electricians and others who contribute to how we live our lives,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> is one part of a strategic approach to accomplishing these ends and should be supported</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-37855443398375958252015-11-12T10:40:00.001-08:002015-11-18T21:15:30.806-08:00They're not all hipsters. The demographics of cycling in Hackney 2<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The cycle bloggers (and some academics and journalists) would have us believe that the fact that Hackney has succeeded in getting more residents to cycle than any other borough (by a long way) is down, in large part, to the demographics of the borough. They suggest it's a function of the number of 'hipsters' living in the borough. That this claim is made about one of the most diverse local authority areas in the UK is simply lazy and wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In my view large numbers of people cycle in Hackney because Hackney has consistently applied policies </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">(<a href="http://cycleandwalkhackney.blogspot.co.uk/2013_03_01_archive.html)">http://cycleandwalkhackney.blogspot.co.uk/2013_03_01_archive.html)</a></span></span> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">that might work and are respectful of the other sustainable modes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is no Census category of 'hipster'. The interesting demographic groups in the Census when considering cycling are ethnicity, socio-economic class and age <span style="color: blue;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><a href="http://cycleandwalkhackney.blogspot.co.uk/2015_10_01_archive.html">http://cycleandwalkhackney.blogspot.co.uk/2015_10_01_archive.html</a>)</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Looking through the prism of these Census groupings, if the high levels of cycling were down to demographics alone, then Hackney would be characterised by higher numbers of white residents, more residents in lower managerial occupations and more residents aged 30 to 44 than other boroughs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Below is an analysis of Census 2011 that charts these demographic aspects as they compare to two other boroughs. I have compared Hackney (15.4% cycle to work) against Islington (10.1% cycle to work) and Hammersmith and Fulham (5.1%). Islington has the next highest cycling rate in the Census and Hammersmith and Fulham (H&F) is higher than many boroughs and does well in realising its cycling potential. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Below is a comparison of the above three Census categories by borough. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">White British (and other white) categories cycle most in all three boroughs. The margin between these ethnic groups and others is considerable. Therefore if Hackney's high cycling level resulted from the demographics of the Borough, the population would be expected to have a higher proportion of white residents and fewer black residents, who cycle least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hackney has only 54.7% white residents (those most likely to cycle) compared to Islington at 68.2% and H&F at 68.1%. It has a much greater proportion of the ethnicity least likely to cycle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">People in 'lower managerial, administrative and professional' occupations are the group who cycle most in all three boroughs. If Hackney's high cycling level resulted from the Borough demographics it would tend to suggest that the Borough had higher numbers of residents employed in these jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Only 24.7% of its residents are in the socio-economic class 'lower managerial' compared to Islington at 25.7% and H&F at 27.9%. It also has a greater proportion of residents in 'routine occupations' which is the group that is least likely to cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In all three boroughs people aged between 30 and 44 cycle significantly more than any other age range. If Hackney's high cycling level was a function of demographics one would expect Hackney to have more residents in this age band than the other two comparator Boroughs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Below is a comparison of the age range that has the highest proportions cycling by borough. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It shows that all three Boroughs have about the same proportion of those ages most likely to cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It seems clear that Hackney has i) a lower proportion of the ethnic categories that cycle most and a higher proportion of the ethnic categories that cycle least, ii) a lower proportion of the socio-economic classes that cycle most and a higher proportion of those that cycle least iii) a similar proportion of residents in the age bracket that cycle most; compared to boroughs with lower cycling rates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This demonstrates that back when the Census was taken and gentrification less evident there was a much higher cycling rate in Hackney. And it is not simply a function of its demography. The high levels of cycling have been undoubtedly influenced by the policies of the borough. Policies that have made Hackney a better place to cycle, restrained private motoring, and positively encouraged cycling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some people seem absolutely determined to belittle and undermine what Hackney has achieved. When you posit answers to what they propose in relation to demographics (high levels of cycling are caused by hipsters), they shift ground to say that the reason for so much cycling must be the geography, topography or lack of a tube. None of those can account for the fact that Hackney:</span><br />
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ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-43757022391876815642015-10-24T09:09:00.001-07:002015-10-29T22:34:10.261-07:00Who cycles? The demographics of cycling in Hackney<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Guardian journalists are publicly debating the issue of socio-economic class, culture and the propensity to cycle. This is good as understanding these things should have a beneficial impact on policy development.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The cycle bloggers (and some academics and journalists) would have us believe that the matter of those who do and do not cycle is one-dimensional. They say that the main thing that prevents people from cycling is fear of road traffic linked to feelings of personal safety. However the picture below suggests that the picture is more complicated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Below are some of the statistics relating to cycling. The information comes from three sources. Firstly Census 2011. The Census is a good data source because it cannot be manipulated, participation is mandatory and, unlike many cycling surveys that are promulgated, it shows how people actually travel, not how they 'say' they might travel. The other authoritative surveys are Transport for London's Travel Demand Survey and Transport for London's analysis of cycling potential (the number of journeys that might be cycled). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Census 2011 found that 7.2% of commuters in inner London cycled to work compared to 2.3% overall. Hackney has the highest level of cycling commuters of any London borough, double the inner London average, at 15.4% and much higher than the next highest borough, Islington, at 10.1%.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Transport for London's survey, the London Travel Demand Survey reports 7% of all journeys (not just commuting journeys) are undertaken by cycle in Hackney. TfL's analysis of cycling potential indicates that Hackney has been particularly effective in realising its' cycling potential with 24% of cycleable journeys actually being cycled, almost 10% higher than the next borough (Hammersmith and Fulham).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Further analysis of Census 2011 shows the importance of culture and socio-economic class. 21.6% of white British commuters cycle, 4.3% of black commuters do.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This means 61% of those residents of Hackney who cycle to work are white British (if 'other white' Census categories are included, the figure rises to 85%). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Census reports socio-economic classifications against method of travel to work. Higher professiona</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">l occupations are hugely over-represented in the cycling figures. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">22.5% of those in higher professional occupations cycle to work. In comparison 7.1% (a third) of those in semi-routine occupations do. 63% </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">those residents of Hackney who cycle to work</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> are</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in managerial, administrative or professional occupations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">20.6% of those aged between 30 and 34 cycle to work. Only 9.9% of those between 20 and 24 years do. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">55% </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">of those residents of Hackney that cycle to work are</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">aged between 25 and 34 years old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you cycle in London you will probably live in inner London. If you are a Hackney resident you will probably be white; have a managerial, administrative or professional occupation; and be a 25 to 34 year old </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">male. </span></span><br />
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have us believe that everyone wants to cycle and the single thing that would make people cycle would be to introduce separated cycle tracks, bus stop bypasses and associated junction treatments to our streets. They say this course of action should be pursued, whatever the cost and regardless of detriment to others (in particular people walking and those using the bus). The argument is that it is largely fear of motor vehicles that puts non-cyclists off from cycling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">This cannot be true. Is the proposition that fear is behind the five fold difference in cycling rates of 21% to 4.3% of two different ethnic groups really plausible? Similarly can anyone truly believe that it is fear of motor traffic alone that means that one socio-economic group cycles at a rate of 22.5% and another at 7.1%? The differing rates between different age groups are clearly also worthy of more analysis and consideration.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although road safety fears will be a reason why people choose not to cycle it simply cannot be the only reason. More sophistication is needed if the right mix of policies are to be pursued so as to genuinely encourage a broader range of people to cycle. The vogue for segregated tracks on relatively narrow roads seems to additionally privilege an already privileged group - by giving this group dedicated street space. This space is given to the detriment of walkers and bus users, and walking and buses are the most space efficient modes of transport. After all, not all may wish to cycle and many may simply want to get on the bus and read a book!</span></span><br />
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ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-34050290662166482102015-09-13T03:32:00.000-07:002015-09-24T04:59:10.435-07:00Place is as important as movement: a tale of two high streets<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As mayor Johnson's Cycle Superhighway proposals progress the look, feel and operation of these schemes as they affect the first busy high street is becoming clearer. Why this matters is that in London, as in many major cities, 80% of public space - space that is available for all the public to use - is not in parks or anything that is specifically set aside, but rather is public highway - our streets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For too long it had been assumed that the only function of streets was to be movement corridors, and that too primarily for motor vehicles. However, in the early noughties, in London, that assumption began to be questioned, and practical changes made to the way streets were thought about. Architect Richard Rogers was commissioned by the then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to promote urbanism and Jan Gehl (the world's foremost urbanist) was commissioned by the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone to report how London might be made into a more walkable city with better public spaces that were pleasant to walk through or linger in. As an early exemplar, Kensington High Street became an icon for good street design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The more progressive local authorities followed the example of Kensington High Street. They cleared the clutter on the streets and footways, so that pedestrians did not have to dodge around obstructions of all sorts, they widened pavements, introduced single-stage pedestrian crossings and used high quality paving. They recognised that creating streets and places where people wanted to be was as important as seeking ever more effective movement corridors. It became increasingly clear that segregating pedestrians from motor traffic by using pedestrian guardrail and other devices detracted from the look and feel of the street and moreover made the streets no safer, from a road safety point of view.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">London's high streets are used by almost all Londoners and visitors to shop, travel, enjoy and just watch the world go by, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">London's high streets are some of its most important places.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> They are, to use Gehl's terms, public places for public life. We should be mindful that our high streets are a vital part of London life and continue to improve them if we are to live together in ever higher numbers in our city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, creating movement corridors for cycling has emerged as a new priority and we are at risk of forgetting how important great streets are. The cycle bloggers, cycle safety campaigners and friendly cycling journos have promoted a world view in which liveability has come to mean cycleability, and a particular form of cycleability, (characterised by kerbs and physical segregation) at that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whitechapel High Street is the first of London's High Streets to get the full separated cycle track treatment which some campaigners claim is the only way to make cycling safe and attractive. It is therefore interesting to look at Whitechapel as London's first busy high street cycle superhighway starts to appear. The approach to Whitechapel High Street contrasts with the approach to the development of Dalston's Kingsland High Street nearby. In the latter case developed primarily to regenerate Dalston and improve it as a 'place', as well as being one that is safer for all users of our streets and modes of transport.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dalston's Kingsland High Street is a thriving shopping street by day and one of London's most important (and coolest) night time economy destinations. It's a busy bus corridor and arterial road into central London. It was regenerated only a few years ago to give the street an uplift. Whilst nominally a TfL road, the borough, Hackney, and the local cycling group had a great influence on its redesign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is now still a busy motor vehicle street and an important bus corridor, but the balance between movement and place has been tilted in the direction of its 'place' function. The pavements have been widened, paving material improved, clutter removed along with the removal of the central white line. Its now a more pleasurable street for people to visit, shop, linger and enjoy. Like Kensington High Street before it is an exemplar streets scheme that attracts professionals to visit. It is regarded as a good cycling environment by the local cycling group - the lane width is wide enough (4.5 metres) for cycle to safely pass bus and bus pass cycle. Formal pedestrian crossings are provided for, while informal crossing is also easy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not perfect, it is congested sometimes. But it is a fine approach to a busy high street recognising the multiplicity of needs and functions that a high street fulfils, and enables all people and functions to rub along together with a degree of equity. It teems with cyclists, the pavements are crowded with pedestrians and it works as a vibrant London street and most importantly it </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is a place people want to visit both by day and by night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like Kingsland High Road, Whitechapel High Street is also </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a busy bus corridor and arterial road into central London and most importantly, is also the local high street, with the diverse mix of shops that should be found in any thriving high street environment. However e</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ncouraged by the cycle bloggers, some cycle campaigners and journalists, i</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t is having a kerb separated cycle superhighway inserted along its entire length. The argument that holds sway at present is that in order to encourage more cycling, regarded as a public good, kerb separated cycle tracks are the only way to make potential new cyclists 'feel' safe - called subjective safety by the cycle bloggers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whitechapel High Street will remain a busy street, dominated by motor vehicles, with London's busiest bus services using it. Unlike at Dalston the balance between movement and place has been tilted further in the direction of movement. Pavements have been narrowed, reduced to 6 feet </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(narrower than many residential streets)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> along some sections where there is a huge amount of pedestrian movement. And it is the first busy street in London in which cycles are routed around the back of newly installed bus stops - so that cyclists cycle between the pavement and those getting on and off the bus. These so-called bus stop bypasses are designed to facilitate high speed cycling with cycle priority, so that cyclists do not need to slow down, nor need to overtake a bus which has paused to pick up passengers. Visually impaired pedestrians and passengers will be most disadvantaged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cycle bloggers, some campaigners and friendly journalists have changed London's streets policies and successfully demanded kerb separated cycle tracks. They claim that more people would cycle in safety and this would improve our streets. The first of these tracks, along a busy London high street, is being built at Whitechapel. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kerbs detract from the look, feel and utility of our streets for other users. The main losers are users of other sustainable transport modes - the pedestrian and the bus passenger. The usable space available to pedestrians has been reduced. Boarding and alighting the bus now means dodging cycles travelling at speed around the back of bus stops. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The consequences for those with businesses on Whitechapel High Street remain to be measured, but the street is being made a less pleasant environment in which to linger - so it is conceivable that fewer people will visit to shop. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The introduction of segregated facilities may attract more commuting cyclists, but won't achieve its other expressed objectives - namely use by 8 to 80 year olds, not clad in lycra, and a reduced casualty rate. Tilting the balance further in favour of movement (primarily high speed cycle commuting) will not attract more, slower cyclists who will visit, use the shops and just linger. Improving all of the sustainable modes and improving public transport, cycling and walking and creating great London streets is an objective we shouldn't retreat from. Only time will tell whether these changes will result in lower casualty rates. In the meantime, life is made less convenient for the myriad other users of streets. For my money Kingsland High Street beats Whitechapel High Street hands down!</span><br />
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ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-82145827644771361652015-06-30T22:42:00.005-07:002015-06-30T22:42:52.873-07:00Wick Road two-way<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyone who knows the Victoria Park and Hackney Wick area to the east of Hackney knows that there are transport and access issues. Many of these issues are down to the installation of a one-way system in the 60s, one of many introduced at that time which were introduced to increase the motor vehicle capacity. The following is a summary of the problems for sustainable transport and road safety created by the numerous one-way streets. None of these problems are trivial given the scale of this mega-one-way system.</span><br />
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<li>It's really difficult to understand the bus services. No one who is not a daily passenger could easily figure out the bus routes as they crisis-cross the area on one-way streets. Bus passengers will often not be able to get to their transport objectives.</li>
<li>It's really difficult to get to where you want to get to on your cycle without taking to the pavement to travel the wrong way up the one-way streets. The council has even permitted cycling on the Victoria Park Road pavement, a footway which is not even wide enough for pedestrians let alone cycles as well.</li>
<li>One-way streets encourage drivers to put their foot down because it's assumed nothing is coming the other way. We know that one-way streets have higher crash histories because of this increased speed and because pedestrians mistake the direction of travel and look the wrong way. Wick Road is so hostile to pedestrians they avoid the area.</li>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These issues have to be resolved for the benefit of local journeys and also because there is a strategic need to regenerate Hackney Wick and the Olympic Park but it is important to prevent regeneration and development in those areas translating into car-dependent development. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more than a decade councillors have been pressing Hackney Council to revert the roads in the Victoria Park area to two-way operation. Local councillors and many others have recognised that the Victoria area one-way system blights a wide area. Transport for London has an historic aspiration to run buses two-way, at least on some of the streets and the Hackney Cycling Campaign campaigned at the last local elections for a plan to revert the one-way roads to two-way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hackney council has now, finally, proposed the reversion of Wick Road to two-way operation. This is fantastic after years of effort because it starts to unravel the one-way system and deal with many of the access issues mentioned above. It won't give everyone exactly what they want, but it will give many bus passengers a more direct service and a better prospect of extension of services to Stratford. It doesn't sort out all the one-way roads but it does make a start at sorting out the system and will allow many more direct cycle trips avoiding pavement cycling or a long detour. It slows the traffic and provides better crossing points for pedestrians. It improves access to Hackney Wick and the Olympic Park and will mean less car-dependent development in the future. This scheme should be seen as a multi-modal, area-wide proposal. Its not just a single-mode scheme. I would urge everyone to support the principle of the proposals and comment on the detail at:</span><br />
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<br />ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-7096881617104883152015-03-29T11:07:00.000-07:002015-04-26T22:23:38.713-07:00Cycle Superhighway 1 through Hackney<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Introduction</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hackney is the most successful cycling borough in the UK. This is because it has taken an holistic approach to cycling, walking and the public realm whilst recognising the crucial role of mass transit - the bus. As Jan Gehl describes it, Hackney seeks to create a better balance between pedestrians, cycles and motor vehicles. Uniquely in the UK, Hackney has more commuters who cycle than travel by car!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the years, with its local cycling community, Hackney has sought to bend funding pots to best effect. Route based funding has been used for schemes which improve cycling, of course, but also benefit local pedestrians and create a better public realm. The Pitfield Street roundabout scheme (on CS1) is the best example. The changes there were entirely driven by the cycling community, but benefits accrued to local residents and pedestrians as well as to people who cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drawing lines on maps, declaring them cycle routes and investing heavily along the route seems to capture the imagination of cycle planners and some campaigners, even though hardly anyone cycles such a route from end to end. Some of the investment that comes from such route-based planning will be good cycling value for money. However, instead of spending all this money on CS1, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there are numerous other locations in the borough where investment would have been better directed. Improving these other locations, rather than using a large pot to titivate, and not substantially make things better for people cycling would certainly be better value for money, in terms of improvements to cycling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nevertheless, Hackney Council has to be congratulated for getting so much value from the Cycle Superhighway process. There are some great schemes that have been developed as part of the process. For example, Hackney Cycling has campaigned for a generation to close Pitfield Street to through traffic and it seems this may now happen. This section of the scheme also has potential for a new public space. Secondly, the Boleyn Road / Crossway junction is to get signalised pedestrian crossings. In addition, there will be two other useful road closures which will reduce rat running through residential streets, to the benefit of both cyclists and pedestrians. There are also many side road entry treatments, improvements to junctions and traffic calming that is all welcome along with the resurfacing of the route. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of the three proposed road closure are beneficial to cyclists and pedestrians </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but exactly where the point closures are implemented is important. Point closure (or filtered permeability) is an area wide intervention, which affects the network. It isn't just one to provide a traffic free route. An example can be seen at Palatine Road where one closure has transformed the entire area east of Stoke Newington High Street. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Road closures should be introduced away from a junction in order that drivers treat the junction with the same level of care as they would do a traditional junction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two locations need reconsideration. The most important of these is the crossing of Old Street and Great Eastern Street. At present there is significant pedestrian, cyclist conflict as cyclists weave their way across the pavement. Although it is not an easy location the pedestrian, cyclist conflict needs resolving. The scheme as proposed does not resolve this conflict. The scheme as presented also makes the right turn from Pitfield Street onto Old Street more problematic than it is at present, as the scheme primarily favours north to south cycle movement. The scheme also removes a useful cycle facility - a westbound bus lane from Old Street.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The junction layout below would be simpler, more self-explanatory and generally a more understandable road layout (and therefore safer) than either the present or proposed configuration. My suggested configuration below could possibly allow pedestrian crossings along pedestrian desire lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second location with a poor scheme proposed is on Balls Pond Road. Balls Pond Road is <u>one of the UK's busiest bus corridors.</u> As east London develops over the next 20 years, this corridor will become even busier. Therefore proposals to signalise a side road junction, remove the bus lane and narrow the effective lane widths is an approach that is damagingly <u> casual with London's bus priority network.</u> The measures proposed will inevitably introduce delay and unreliability to bus journeys not just on this section of route, but for passengers along the entire route.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both of the Balls Pond Road proposals prioritise north to south cycle journeys over east to west cycle journeys! The separated cycle track proposal moves the existing pedestrian crossing and will inhibit informal pedestrian crossing by the introduction of kerbs into the carriageway. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the exception of making the bus lane operational 24/7 (with loading allowed), adding side road entry treatments at the two junctions and enforcing the 20mph limit, by camera, doing nothing at this location would be the best all round solution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">In conclusion Cycle Superhighway 1 through Hackney is a good thing overall, however as discussed, it is a lot of money to put into a route-based scheme, rather than considering the network as a whole. The proposals for CS1 would benefit from reconsideration of t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">he crossing of Old Street and Great Eastern Street as this is the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">most important location of the entire scheme. The proposal at Balls Pond Road is too narrowly focussed on north to south cycle movements and substantially disadvantages all other users including people cycling East West. The point closures should be moved into the centre of the area to be filtered, and away from the junctions.</span><br />
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ICycleHackneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367387747511096016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637460865953182701.post-49242587662443147072013-10-08T06:55:00.000-07:002013-10-09T03:29:40.262-07:00Space4WalkingCyclingBuses&GreatPublicLifeInHackney<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hackney has been branded the Capital of Cycling. The recent All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group report noted Hackney's "extraordinary progress". </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, whilst recognising what Hackney has achieved, some bloggers and cycling campaigners, mostly outside Hackney, say that Hackney must nevertheless change. It should not continue to pursue the policies which have contributed to this progress: road danger reduction, speed management, public realm improvement and permeability for cycles amongst others.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They promote a strategy of 'Going Dutch' with</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> dedicated space for cyclists being introduced along Hackney's busiest streets. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surely, proponents of separated cycle tracks say, if you give cyclists a protected lane they will feel safer and more of them will cycle. They say it has had an effect in Holland; Holland has a lot of cyclists. Q</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;">uod erat demonstrandum</i><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;">. </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However it is not happenstance that has led to the adoption of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">policies in Hackney to incrementally create a better balance between pedestrians, cyclists and motor vehicles; permeability for cycles; speed management and road danger reduction. These are pragmatic policies for a borough </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which regards cycling as important, but also wants to see more walking, great streets and great public spaces and has a huge proportion of its residents who are reliant on numerous, good bus services.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> In these multiple aims, Hackney is supported by its organised cycling community who also recognise that a liveable borough is not just about cycling.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Almost 50 bus services operate on Hackney's streets (more than in the whole of Amsterdam). Many carry more passengers than some light rail systems. The bus is, and will continue to be, the number one public transport mode (by a very long way) that residents of Hackney use to get around. And to keep these buses moving Hackney has to provide priority for buses on its streets. There is also an obligation on boroughs to do this from a wider, strategic London perspective. It is not just Hackney residents who use these buses and who benefit from priority, it is bus users along the whole route. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Bus lanes have been a huge boon to cycling, a</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">nd of course cyclists also use the bus. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Hackney has some of the best bus priority schemes in London, like the one below. Hackney has also removed obstructive parking on bus routes to speed them up, which in turn benefits cyclists on busy streets.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hackney has some of the busiest bus services in London. The stretch of bus lane and bus gate on Amhurst Road protects 100 buses an hour from the effects of traffic congestion and provides protection for cyclists.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 16px;"></span>However, bus priority and bus infrastructure take road space and buses need access to the kerb. There are now two novel approaches to providing dedicated space for cyclists at bus stops. One approach, developed by Camden (</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA9_p_TxzGo" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Royal College Street </a>)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> directs cyclists into the path of boarding and alighting passengers. The second, developed by TfL and Newham on</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Stratford High Street</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> directs cyclists behind the bus stops. Neither of these novel approaches is appropriate for Hackney's streets with its high cycle, pedestrian and bus passenger volumes.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bus stop being built out presently at Stratford may well be acceptable where the pavement is wide and pedestrian and passenger numbers are very low it is inconceivable that it could be introduced generally on Hackney's streets with high footfall and bus passenger volumes.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Like most others, Hackney council has adopted a transport hierarchy for its streets that puts pedestrians at the top, followed by cyclists and bus users. It wants to see a fully accessible, inclusive, public realm. Urban design is as important as movement. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Hackney has done much to improve its streets for public life. It has widened the pavements and improved the look and the feel of public spaces in its key centres of Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney Central, Shoreditch, Broadway Market and Da</span><span style="line-height: 16px;">lston. It wants to do the same along Stoke Newington High Street. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pedestrians feel most comfortable on wide, clear and continuous pavements. In Hackney Central policies to widen the pavement and remove highways obstructions (A boards) have been welcomed by pedestrians.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The same census 2011 results that have shown cycling to have risen so dramatically also demonstrate the success Hackney has had in increasing walk trips to work. Almost doubling from 7,811 to 14,054 in 10 years.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Some bloggers have suggested introducing cycle tracks into what are, for the footfall using them, quite narrow pavements. One campaigner suggested reducing the pavement at Dalston Kingsland to two metres in precisely the location at which the pavement has been recently widened to accommodate increasing numbers of pedestrians! It is even suggested that one-way gyratory systems should be left in place to allow for cycle tracks! These systems are hopeless for pedestrians and bus services.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Pedestrians are most comfortable on a wide, clear, continuous pavement. The last thing they want is the introduction of cycles onto the pavement as evidenced by the high number of police Community Advice Panels (CAPs) which have tackling pavement cycling as a priority.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">In Hackney, the UK's second most dense local authority area, great streets and public spaces are vital components of the quality of public life </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">whether for getting around, shopping, play or just enjoying watching the world go by. Hackney's economy and attractiveness as a borough is, in part, down to its great streets and street life. This is important as it is increasingly being recognised that successful economies have also to be great places for public life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Whilst there is a case for removing parking on Hackney's busier streets, businesses will continue to need access to the kerb in order to load. Presently this is accommodated by the use of</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> bus lanes and general carriageway out of peak hours. Introducing separated cycling tracks must make business loading more difficult.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><b>The problem with kerbs</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">At the heart of the cyclecentric, separated space campaign is a desire to see additional kerbs installed to "protect cyclists from motor vehicles" or for cyclists to be diverted onto the pavement in tracks, for example around the back of bus stops as illustrated above. This is said to benefit cyclists, but ignores the problems that will be caused to pedestrians, particularly older people and the visually and mobility impaired. Pedestrians (whom hitherto transport planners have put at the top of the transport </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">hierarchy) want to see wide, level, continuous and clear pavements and to be able to cross the street at will. Pedestrians do not want additional kerbs and complexity introduced into the street. Pedestrians do not want to have to look out for cyclists on the pavement, nor do they want to have to cross a cycle track and perch on a foot wide kerb before crossing the carriageway.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The introduction of kerbs and the paraphernalia of separated tracks flies in the face of years of work to establish that our streets are not there simply to cater for movement, but are also places for public life. Just at the time that walking policy has made a shift towards reduced segregation - for example by the removal of guard railing etc. - and more shared space some cycle bloggers and campaigners want to shift cycling provision towards more separation.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The separated cycle track on Pitfield Street serves a cycling function, but by no stretch of the imagination can this be described as an attractive and walkable street. For able bodied pedestrians it's horrible to cross, for older people and disabled pedestrians it is un-passable. It is poor urban design.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Whatever focus there is on cycling, money will always be in short supply and it needs to be spent to best effect. In</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> my view limited resources should be targeted at the junctions which are most problematic for both pedestrians and cyclists: the Pembury Circus, Lea Interchange, Dalston Lane / Queensbridge Road, Stamford Hill Broadway, Old Street / City Road. Also on a list of priorities would be the one-way systems which reduce cycling and bus permeability at Stoke Newington and Hackney Wick. Can separate cycle tracks down Kingsland Road ever compete for funds against tackling these locations?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The last time I looked, Hackney's main streets were being used pretty intensively. The footways are wide, but often heaving with pedestrians, the carriageways vary in width, but where possible bus priority has been installed . Much of the kerbside space is used either for bus stops, alternates with bus lanes as part-time loading bays or is a single carriageway width. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">One could i) reallocate road space from the bus, ii) narrow the pavement for cycle tracks. But If buses are vital to the borough and one wants great streets for pedestrians then one would want more bus priority, not less. Where it is possible pavements would be widened not narrowed. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">One could also iii) remove parking or iv) reallocate space from general traffic; to provide cycle tracks, but, t</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">his would only be possible on a few short sections of Hackney's busy streets.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Very few of Hackney's streets are of uniform width throughout. and all have many demands on them. Adopting a 'Go Dutch' approach would mean implementing the odd length of separated lane, often at the expense of pedestrian space or bus priority, and then have to stop the lane intermittently, because to do more was simply unfeasible - this is not much of a strategy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">There may well be some very busy arterial roads across London where it would make sense to implement separate cycle tracks. There is a need for more and better account to be taken of cycling on Hackney's busier streets, but I can't see that translating into separated tracks because there are too many competing priorities. Cycling is only one of these. Any monies available to be spent on these busier roads would be better spent tackling problematic junctions and improving permeability for cycles and buses by tackling Hackney's one-way systems.</span><br />
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