Transporting man's best friends to doggy day care with a cargo bike on a Paris morning. #paris #bike #cargobike #dog #transportation #15minutecity #urbanism

Some other examples here that might also interest. bsky.app/profile/dccb...

Cycle parking reserved for non-standard cycles, outside the Evelyn Street shops, Deptford, London Borough of Lewisham. A handy addition to the cycle parking at the shops by Cycleway 4. #FridayFun

If you want to learn a little more about our work with Robert Weetman on better side road junction design, @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social's slides from yesterday's Landor Active Travel Innovations conference are available on the Community page of our website. cityinfinity.co.uk/community/

Bus has to wait FOUR TIMES to keep to the timetable due to lack of congestion after Oxford's Congestion Charge went in. ⬇️ I remember hearing the same thing on here after the NY congestion charge went live.

Public transport often treats bikes as a luxury—or worse a competitor—but without them leaves revenue on the table. For 25 years, the Dutch have extended the reach of their railways through investments in (300,000) parking spaces and (25,000) shared bikes. The result? A doubling of train ridership.

We have something similar here in Norwich. On Pottergate (a major cycle route into the city) paving slabs have been inlaid into the cobbles on both sides. Makes a huge difference. If I was to quibble, they could be a bit wider...

Keeping it #Halloween this morning with a mug that places form above function! #FridayFun

St Michael's Avenue, Coventry - one of the routes to the cathedral. It's subtle, but notice the smooth paving to the left of the footway to give an accessible route through the cobbles. #FridayFun

October Rides Month concludes with a ride across ’s-Hertogenbosch — from the city centre to its northern edge without a single traffic light. A new mini-roundabout sparked local debate but, in my view, it’s an improvement.

The Global Designing Cities Initiative has released a new design guide - Designing for Safe Speeds which is free to download (with registration). We've only skimmed the surface, but there is loads of useful advice in there. globaldesigningcities.org/publication/...

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Fancy a well-earned break? Well, grab a cuppa and settle down with a copy of our latest newsletter. As well as covering the official launch of the 5th edition of The Guide to Inclusive Cycling, you'll find out what Mobility Justice means to us,

In the October 2025 issue of Highways Magazine @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social asks who is junction capacity for. Digital issue online for free as usual. edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader...

*** New blog post *** Back in July, I went for a cycle around Leicester, 10 years after the last time I cycled around Leicester. Here's my write up, with thanks to @leicestercyclingcg.bsky.social therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/10/live...

Real time bus information seen in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. Little things to make sustainable mobility a little more attractive. #FridayFun

Miffy's Traffic Light, Vredenburg, Utrecht. Miffy (Nijntje in Dutch) Helping people to cross the street on an incredibly busy cycle and bus corridor. #FridayFun

We're preaching to the converted of course, but we really wish that those managing projects like this would come and get some advice from people who know what they are talking about. These are not fit for purpose through their shape, fixings, being too close to each other and to the kerbs! Fail.

It's nice to get enquiries, but sorry "Rastari" we're not civil litigation experts for multinational chemical companies; we're not sure using a Gmail email address helps either! However, we do know a bit about highway law and regulation which we're often drawing on for our work. #MondayMarketing

Raising a road and dipping a cycle track at a bridge with open views is a very Dutch approach which has been used here on the route through Manorway Green in Thamesmead, London. #FridayFun

Worth a read and watch anyway, but look out for the bus stop that requires drivers to just wait and the shuttle working on the bridge over the motorway. Practical and pragmatic design in action.

Interesting to note that CROW in the Netherlands is currently undertaking a survey with city road managers to see who uses zebra crossings over cycle tracks and what their local policies and experiences are. One to watch.

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No, backlash has not undercut the success of 30km/hour speed limits. They have incontrovertibly reduced death and injuries wherever they’ve been introduced. The backlash is just noise, it doesn’t change the facts.

The key design principle here is social safety, achieved through natural surveillance. ​Because the underpass is short/open, people can see all the way through, and others can see in. This prevents the isolation and blind spots that make traditional underpasses a magnet for anti-social behavior.

The sloped walls (either inward, outward, or in this case both) discourage people from hanging out in there because they can't stand close to or lean against the wall, thus making them feel more exposed. It makes it a less obvious hangout spot.

Raising a road and dipping a cycle track at a bridge with open views is a very Dutch approach which has been used here on the route through Manorway Green in Thamesmead, London. #FridayFun

Spot the Difference (🇬🇧 vs 🇳🇱)

New Post/Video: A Ride from Leiden to The Hague along the Via 44. A continuous-cycle route running parallel to the N44 — now over ten years old. Smooth red asphalt and open countryside make for a pleasant ride, though the proximity to traffic and lack of signage remain noticeable.

We're preaching to the converted of course, but we really wish that those managing projects like this would come and get some advice from people who know what they are talking about. These are not fit for purpose through their shape, fixings, being too close to each other and to the kerbs! Fail.

It's nice to get enquiries, but sorry "Rastari" we're not civil litigation experts for multinational chemical companies; we're not sure using a Gmail email address helps either! However, we do know a bit about highway law and regulation which we're often drawing on for our work. #MondayMarketing

Miffy's Traffic Light, Vredenburg, Utrecht. Miffy (Nijntje in Dutch) Helping people to cross the street on an incredibly busy cycle and bus corridor. #FridayFun

Last Friday evening, Mark spoke at CYCLEWight's AGM where he talked about network design in the rural context, along with some of the infrastructure changes needed to enable rural cycling and urban connections. The slides from are available from our website: cityinfinity.co.uk/community/

We're pleased to report on a project that Mark has been working on with Robert Weetman for Manchester City Council. This post sets out some ideas that developed from this work and which will hopefully start to explain what "pedestrian-friendly" is, and how we can design better side road junctions.

For those who prefer the format of the original Ranty Highwayman blog, my work post on side road junction design is also there. It's the same piece of course! therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/10/what...

October Rides Month – Part 2. This time I cycle from Utrecht to Nieuwegein and Houten, showing clear contrasts in cycling quality between the three municipalities. 📹 New video and blog post now online:

And reposted for the lunchtime crowd bsky.app/profile/city...

Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year.

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes" We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OK folks, as promised, here's a blog post about some work I've been doing with Robert Weetman on designing better side road junctions. bsky.app/profile/city...

We're pleased to report on a project that Mark has been working on with Robert Weetman for Manchester City Council. This post sets out some ideas that developed from this work and which will hopefully start to explain what "pedestrian-friendly" is, and how we can design better side road junctions.

Last Friday evening, Mark spoke at CYCLEWight's AGM where he talked about network design in the rural context, along with some of the infrastructure changes needed to enable rural cycling and urban connections. The slides from are available from our website: cityinfinity.co.uk/community/

Love a curly lamp post - here's one at Leith in Edinburgh. So elegant

The ammonite lighting columns along The Cobb, Lyme Regis.

Amsterdam from the tram window. On my way home. Passing the Stedelijk Museum.

"I'm puzzled when people say the Swiss have good transportation b/c they're rich. It has nothing to do with that. They're still using trams from 1970. They restore them every 7 years. Making do is part of the culture. If you're using trams for 50 years, that's a hell of a savings." —Norman Garrick 🧵

Here's a little description of what "forgiving kerbs" are all about from @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social, including a short video of such a kerb line in action. www.linkedin.com/posts/markph...

No clue what's happening here, but I approve.

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This Friday evening, our founder @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social will be giving a talk to CYCLEWight where he'll be hoping to give some inspiration on the infrastructure that can support rural, village and town cycling.