flakes of nuisance » transport http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:49:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 puncture-proofhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2012/01/15/puncture-proof/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/01/15/puncture-proof/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:14:01 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6677

Ron Arad Two Nuns Bicycle from paul denton on Vimeo.

]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/01/15/puncture-proof/feed/ 0 train stations and house priceshttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/14/train-stations-and-house-prices/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/14/train-stations-and-house-prices/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:33:22 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6635 Great use of data

“We’re house-hunting. And for me, like most coders, house-hunting involves lots and lots and lots of screen-scraping.

As well as crawling Rightmove listings, I’ve been looking at transport and house-price data. [

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VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo.

Thanks Gareth

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SEE ME SAVE ME

It’s nearly two years since Eilidh was run over by a truck that failed to see her. Her mum Heather has been working with their local Member of European Parliament to try and get an EU declaration signed to get HGVs fitted with sensors and cameras to remove their blind spot.

4000 people, mostly unprotected road users such as cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians are killed each year in Europe because of HGV blind spots.

This declaration needs to be signed to be signed by half of the 736 MEPs before it lapses on [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/04/eilidh-cairns-campaign-see-me-save-me/feed/ 0 Harry Beck would be proud. ‘Linear diagram’ european travel map.http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/01/28/frank-beck-would-be-proud-topographic-european-travel-map/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/01/28/frank-beck-would-be-proud-topographic-european-travel-map/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:19:57 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6477 Harry Beck’s map continues to inspire.

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Copenhagen – City of Cyclists from Copenhagenize on Vimeo.

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A report commissioned by the RAC Foundation has stated that the cost of switching off all speed cameras in the UK would be up to 800 additional people killed or seriously injured every year, the BBC reports.

The report’s author Professor Richard Allsop, emeritus professor of transport studies at University College London, also suggested that the popular perception of the cameras being there primarily to raise money is a myth with just £4 from every £60 fine going to the Treasury.

RAC report also gives the lie to the revenue-raising "myth"

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/27/uk-wide-camera-switch-off-would-mean-800-more-people-killed-or-seriously-injured/feed/ 0 ‘Strict liability’ and legal protection for cyclists « UKcycleruleshttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/16/%e2%80%98strict-liability%e2%80%99-and-legal-protection-for-cyclists-%c2%ab-ukcyclerules/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/16/%e2%80%98strict-liability%e2%80%99-and-legal-protection-for-cyclists-%c2%ab-ukcyclerules/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:51:54 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6252 I dislike conflict. This is a questionable characteristic for a barrister.

As a result there’s a sombre tone in this week’s post, as I’m tiptoeing precariously close to a shouting match.

The Guardian recently posted this article asking whether the law does enough to protect cyclists. As expected, the comments express some fruity road-related read rage.

At the same time there’s a strong debate in the cycle blogosphere on what can be done to increase the numbers of people cycling (see ibikelondon vs Carlton Reid, for example).

Lots of people talk about ‘strict liability’ as one possible solution, and [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/16/%e2%80%98strict-liability%e2%80%99-and-legal-protection-for-cyclists-%c2%ab-ukcyclerules/feed/ 0 ‘The new Routemaster bus is a design cacophony’ – Great Knockers of our timehttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/16/the-new-routemaster-bus-is-a-design-cacophony-great-knockers-of-our-time-scribble/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/16/the-new-routemaster-bus-is-a-design-cacophony-great-knockers-of-our-time-scribble/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:45:38 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6246 Here’s the funny thing: Google has no listings for “successful public-transport vehicles designed by critics and journalists” – funny that. The comments thread is, as usual where the true wisdom and idiocy resides with (certifiable) people who think the world would be better with no speed or parking restrictions and no buses or trains. “Yours Sincerely, PS I am mad” . Lazy, lazy, lazy. Although this is a bus with no name, it’s already known as the new Routemaster after the much-loved double-decker that served the capital’s streets for the best part of half a century until axed, save for [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/16/the-new-routemaster-bus-is-a-design-cacophony-great-knockers-of-our-time-scribble/feed/ 0 Reflections on Englandhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/10/17/reflections-on-england/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/10/17/reflections-on-england/#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:11:25 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6143 It seems to me that British people are on average rather more interested in cars than is good for them. In one sense this is understandable. On hearing that I normally drive rather infrequently, more than one person responded by saying that they “couldn’t manage without a car”. It’s easy to see why people believe this, given the way the country’s transport infrastructure is arranged. For many people it is genuinely difficult to imagine living without a car in the UK. Given the ubiquity of the car as the only way of getting about, it’s perhaps also not surprising [

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