Posts tagged with ‘infrastructure’

London gets its first 'Tiger Crossing'

Zebras, pelicans, toucans, puffins, pegasuses (pegasi?)… there’s a bewildering number of types of road crossing, and now London has a Tiger crossing to add to the mix. It’s like a…

Designs shortlisted for Nine Elms cycle bridge

Four designs have made the shortlist for a new cycling and walking bridge over the River Thames at Nine Elms, between Chelsea and Vauxhall. The £40m bridge will link to…

Cycle Superhighway 1 takes the backstreet route

East London is to get a new Cycle Superhighway – but a very different creature to the dramatic plans for the cross-London routes. Whereas the recently approved North-South and East-West…

Negotiations for Wootton Bassett cycle route

The long-held dream of a safe cycle route from Wootton Bassett to Swindon is inching closer, with Sustrans and Wiltshire Council working together to design a new route. The Gazette…

Tough drill makes light work of bike-friendly kerbs

As segregated urban cycleways become more common in Britain, traditional straight-up kerbs have come in for criticism. Standard vertical kerbs reduce the width available to cyclists, and make it more…