It’s absolutely outrageous, isn’t it – you’ve just seen a cyclist slicing through a queue of traffic, undercutting on one side and then filtering down the middle of the road to get past you, and to add insult to injury, he is not only recklessly speeding past you, but she’s doing so wearing headphones, and … [Read more…]
This is going to be a long and evolving blog post covering that number one bingo card issue of cyclist and so-called “road tax”. So first things first – what is road tax, or more to the point – what isn’t road tax, and if it hasn’t existed since 1937, why do people still talk … [Read more…]
Given that we still face a huge amount of uncertainty about covid, it’s interesting to note that Aer Lingus have announced four new long haul routes from Manchester today, two of which will be operated using narrowbody aircraft. Now this is just a very brief post to comment on the plane itself, rather than the … [Read more…]
It’s a popular enough question – why don’t cyclists have numberplates? At the same time, people often ask (or usually just state as if it’s a fact): Why don’t cyclists have insurance? Why don’t cyclists take a test? Why don’t bikes need an MOT? What about this road tax business (correctly it’s VED or car … [Read more…]
Electric cars are great! They remove air pollution from the point of delivery. They are much quieter. They don’t require hazardous fuels to be brought into congested cities and sold from unsightly filling stations. They are also much easier to maintain. But we also need to be very realistic about the problems electric cars don’t … [Read more…]
In theory, this is a simply enough thing to measure – what’s the best way to get the largest number of people through any given traffic lane at any given time? This meme aims to answer that question in the simplest possible way, by reducing everything down to multiples of 1,000. Taken a bit further, … [Read more…]