- Giving Toucans the Bird - The Ranty Highwayman on Toucan crossings!
- And a brainstorming session on future speakers
Events from the Chat:
- Sun 5-Mar: LCC Women's Freedom Ride, A ride for International Women's Day calling for London to be made safe for women to cycle
- Tues 7-Mar 13.00-14.00: The Urban Transport Group: A lunchtime conversation on how to increase diversity and inclusion in active travel
- Weds 22-Mar: That Leicester Transforming Cities conference
Links from the Chat:
Oxford protest:
- Sky News - The Climate Show - The battle for cleaner air: 20 minute documentary with Tom Heap
- BBC Radio 4 - Broadcasting House 26 Feb 2023 - 35 minutes in for about 5 minutes
- Tom Seaward Twitter link, there's a whole series of these
- For anti-Semitism, see Tom Seaward vox pop with Elise Benjamin, Oxford's former Mayor who is Jewish
- BBC Radio 4 AntiSocial, covered 15 minute neighbourhoods
- With Alan Miller of Anti-vax and anti-online-safety turned anti-traffic-restriction group ‘Together’, and London Cycling Campaign-er Carla Francome.
- https://twitter.com/adamfleming/status/1626666234283433984
- Check out the CoHSAT tweets below which point out the 5 pieces of misinformation that Miller smuggled in, two of which were caught by the presenter.
Other News
- Secure bike parking, Spokesafe in Poole, they do all the admin once up and running. No subscription cost - users pay to park, and Spokesafe take a percentage.
- Modal filter hopefully being implemented next week.
- Brum's bike lane
- Bicester petition to keep-london-road-open-with-a-pedestrian-underpass
Toucans and other Bike Crossings!
- Daily Mail: Why Australia’s traffic light pedestrian buttons are the BEST in the world (and even Billie Eilish thinks so)
- The PB/5 pedestrian button is considered to be the world's best designed, with a vibrating touch panel for hearing-impaired pedestrians, and a microphone to measure traffic noise and boost the volume if necessary.
- Hip height crossing push button in Sheffield: Leavygreave Road crossing over the ring road.
- CycleStreets tag 'detectorloops' gives an easy link to examples:
- Cambridge example of a toucan with ground line detection. Have never had to push a button.
- Second example of detector loop from Cambridge.
- Third example from Cambridge with detector loops.
- Suspect this is Rob's "works every time" detection in Newcastle - ground loops on either side.
- Double hamburger junction - did count the signal heads once and I think there are 48. All the ped/cycle buttons are placebos.