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Own the Road: Alibi Facilities:
Images of crap cycle lanes are a well-established, and popular comic genre of the early internet-age but analysis of the logic behind the phenomenon is missing.
(Via Carlton Reid via JP Stacey)
The method costs people’s time according to how much they earn, and uses this cost to create a value for the development. So, for example, it says the market price of an hour spent travelling in a taxi is £45, but the price of an hour spent travelling by bicycle is just £17, because cyclists tend to be poorer than taxi passengers.
George Monbiot – An Answer to the Meaning of Life (2011)
(Via At War With The Motorist via a comment on the Alternative Department for Transport via the Missing Bean)
Tesco effect: How big firms quietly own little brands on BBC News
But what seems to have irked anti-corporate coffee lovers about Harris and Hoole is that Tesco has not bought into an existing brand, but is instead attempting to build one from scratch.
I am amused that even fake independent coffee shops have to have an Australian or New Zealander as the founder.
Trakke Messenger Bags. Handmade in Glasgow (by Trakke)
(via an interview & gallery on CycleLove via Erik Spiekermann)
When all relevant ICD-10 codes are used, fatalities by time spent travelling vary within similar ranges for walking, cycling and driving. Risks for drivers were highest in youth and fell with age, while for pedestrians and cyclists, risks increased with age. For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving.
The guidance is for commissioners, managers and practitioners involved in physical activity promotion or who work in the environment, parks and leisure or transport planning sectors. They could be working in local authorities, the NHS and other organisations in the public, private, voluntary and community sectors.
We call on the Govt to remove the right of the Church of England to have automatic seats in the House of Lords, in line with its commitments to equality and non-discrimination, set out in the Equality Act (2010) and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979)
The first Kickstarter project on the new UK Kickstarter is an adorable miniature arcade-game chassis for your Raspberry Pi board.
The image of cyclists presented to the public has become so strongly skewed towards riders wearing those items that the legitimacy and status of those who do not wear them is being undermined.
Today’s motorists know none of this highway history and would no doubt be shocked at how a roads organisation created by cyclists was so influential at the time.
Paralympic design: wheelchair rugby
They had to work hard to find a backdrop rugged enough for these photos. I particularly like the incongruously dainty front wheels.
