I happened to be doing some business in, The quaint rural town Overton, Hampshire. When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a bicycle sink with a Paddington bear! In a wicker basket, so cuddly and cute. I knew in a moment it was a Dutch treat.
This week, two separate companies did the right thing when an issue was brought to their attention: a polite yet firm note to a company can get a result – sometimes even within minutes!
The Commons Transport Committee who “scrutinise the expenditure, administration and policies of the Department for Transport and its associated public bodies” has published a report and a set of conclusions about cycling in the UK which amount to, mostly, a pile of poo. There are one or two roses amongst the crappy conclusions, but mostly it’s poo.…
Back on 2nd April 2014, the campaign group ‘Stop Killing Cyclists‘ held an event in London to highlight how little investment there has been in fully, hard segregated cycle routes in each of the boroughs – see WALL OF DEATH. The same FOI questions were put to the local authorities in Hampshire – the answers given are shown…
Copyright: Reproduced courtesy of The Railway Magazine (April 2014) — My thanks to its editor, Nick Pigott, for his kind permission to let me scan and reproduce the article here; and thanks also go of course to my favourite ticket clerk, Kev, for bringing the article to my attention in the first place! In lieu of…
On Friday, the BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson – a person who has come out as a cyclist himself – published a tweet to his 2,759,088 or so followers on Twitter, which caused an almost an immediate response from the BBC presenter Jeremy Vine (storify): Shortly after that, people started questioning Jeremy Clarkson about taking…
In support of the STOP KILLING CYCLISTS campaign – a radical yet peaceful group – who orchestrated the two recent “Die-Ins” in London: many people are tweeting, posting on Facebook or adding to their websites one of the many “subvertisements” that members of the group have made themselves over the past week or so; All…
The BBC “CarFest” event held in Laverstoke, promoted by Chris Evans of the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, has been very popular over the past couple years; and people I’ve talked to locally that have been to it have had many good things to say about the activities – plus it raises money for BBC Children in Need.…
The Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Hertfordshire Roads Policing unit tweeted on 13 October 2013: ”@roadpoliceBCH: Somebody thought it was ok to cycle to London on the M1, escorted safely off at Redbourn. #dontbeadummy pic.twitter.com/Szlzybee1w “ The BBC picked up the story, along with other news outlets: Hertfordshire Police escort M1 cyclist off motorway The police are right:…
It’s one small pedal for a man, one giant ride for mankind. Okay, so perhaps being the first person ever to be served a cup of coffee whilst riding a bicycle through a drive-thru isn’t quite up there with landing on the moon. I’m still a bit chuffed about it, though. After all, it’s not often…