The planning system is constantly being updated, but do recent reforms to the NPPF and local plans make it easy to live car free if you choose? The new towns are a flagship policy of a government that...

Ten years ago, a new bridge was opened across the River Medway. We look at what effects it has had.

We are calling on the government to double the minimum density of homes around stations (from the current 35 dwellings per hectare) so more homes can be built. This will allow more people to live with...

Objectively, Vredenburg in Utrecht is a very busy street. And yet, when I give guided tours, some people keep telling me that I have no idea what a really busy street looks like. What do they mean? Probably that, in their mind, a street cannot be busy when it does not have private cars. There aren't any here now. But it wasn’t always like this.

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I often find myself in conversations about the comparative value of side-road zebra crossings and continuous footways. People want to see improvements for pedestrians, a means to get cyclists safel…

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Numbered junctions are a great way to navigate the cycling network in the Netherlands. I have explained how the system works before, but I had never shown how cycling by numbers works in practice. That changes today, with a ride through my hometown ’s-Hertogenbosch. In the Netherlands it is called the “Fietsknooppuntennetwerk”. Long compound words are a thing in this country!

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By the end of my first day in the Netherlands I’d ridden through an underground cycle tunnel beneath the River Maas, crossed a bridge built solely for cyclists and parked in a bike garage wit…

Coming soon – Pedestrian-friendly side road junctions online masterclass Robert Weetman and Mark Philpotts are excited to launch dates for their first two-day online expert workshop exploring their p...

People who visit the Netherlands for the first time to see and experience the cycling environment often describe being “blown away” by all that they see. But recurring visitors say something similar too. To their pleasant surprise, they often notice the continuous improvements to the cycling infrastructure. In today’s post, I have a fine example of just such an improvement.

Coming soon – Pedestrian-friendly side road junctions online masterclass Robert Weetman and Mark Philpotts are excited to launch dates for their first two-day online expert workshop exploring their p...