tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post36542759541010822..comments2024-03-27T12:53:39.298+01:00Comments on A view from the cycle path: Beauty and the bikeDavid Hembrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14543024940730663645noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-26654136510434231412009-12-26T23:41:51.887+01:002009-12-26T23:41:51.887+01:00Clive,
If you live in Darlington, and want better...Clive,<br /><br />If you live in Darlington, and want better cycling infrastructure, are you a member of <b>Darlington Cycling Campaign</b>? Most of the girls in the Beauty and the Bike project have joined - as well as some of their parents - to campaign for much better standards of cycling infrastructure.inconvenient_truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17888983434920764431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-38955072252417281242009-12-07T22:27:52.622+01:002009-12-07T22:27:52.622+01:00"Stop making videos Darlington and start doin..."Stop making videos Darlington and start doing something truly constructive to reduce traffic speeds, educate road users and improve cycling safety".<br /><br />Clive. I think you will find that the people behind the film are not Darlington Borough Council but an independant media group.neilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-2818431484348999332009-12-03T22:00:01.537+01:002009-12-03T22:00:01.537+01:00"All it would take is a bit of paint" to..."All it would take is a bit of paint" to produce a safe cycle path said the girl in the video.<br /><br />Nonsense!<br /><br />Darlington Council has already splattered liberal amounts of paint and cartoons of bicycles around the town - all of which are ignored by the motorists who drive and park on them and the police who fail to enforce them. <br /><br />Not that it matters too much Clivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02615519051115457657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-44191134866164517372009-11-25T19:48:58.123+01:002009-11-25T19:48:58.123+01:00It might be a flicker of light, but it demonstrate...It might be a flicker of light, but it demonstrates that the people wanting the change aren't the public's image of stereotypical bikers: swarthy men in lycra with chiselled thighs, but demure, fashionable young women.<br /><br />More power to them, I say.Paul Simmshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14964987968100277615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-66963762509883885972009-11-23T21:29:33.249+01:002009-11-23T21:29:33.249+01:00Bob: Let's hope it is a flicker of light.
As ...Bob: Let's hope it is a flicker of light.<br /><br />As for "it only needs a can of paint", yes you're right of course. By British standards, the German infrastructure is amazing, but I've cycled in Germany and it really is not up to the Dutch standard.<br /><br />As ever, the quality of the infrastructure has a direct effect on the cycling rate. The Germans cycle only David Hembrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14543024940730663645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-7016995752038346222009-11-23T20:43:34.450+01:002009-11-23T20:43:34.450+01:00David - is that a flicker of light at the end of t...David - is that a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel? I don't know but it looks like Darlington is doing more than Bristol has.<br />One of the really good parts of the video is none of the girls were wearing a helmet even in the UK!<br />Perhaps the worst comments was front one of the girls who said - "it only needs a can of paint". We know only too well that lots of tins ofBob MacQueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13107883771942118840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-16302889585249125682009-11-23T11:44:47.912+01:002009-11-23T11:44:47.912+01:00Freewheeler: While I really like the Beauty and th...Freewheeler: While I really like the Beauty and the Bike initiative, I have to say that the UK's demonstration towns themselves are not so impressive.<br /><br />Unfortunately the answer about how much infrastructure they're providing is very easy. It would appear to be very close to zero.<br /><br />The result is as you point out, that they've a few towns slightly up, a few slightly David Hembrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14543024940730663645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-50768419534584761442009-11-23T11:33:14.839+01:002009-11-23T11:33:14.839+01:00It's not clear to me what the 'cycling tow...It's not clear to me what the 'cycling town' initiatives are providing in the way of infrastructure on the Dutch model.<br /><br />And although it's a provisional report, I think it's a bit ominous that manual counts revealed that "two towns showed a decline in cycle activity (between -2% and -5% per year)."freewheelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16731932510033958017noreply@blogger.com