Life Outside the Box passes a milestone and goes a bit Po-Mo
Or if you prefer, Post Modern. Because this is a blog post about this blog. Which feels a bit too self-referential, hence Post Modern. But passing the milestone of 100,000 page views feels significant:...
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The UK General Election: Street Art of the Week
Seems like whoever came up with this piece of street art, seen on a wall in Brighton a while ago, knew more than all of the UK's pundits and polling outfits put together.
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Things You Don’t See From A Car: The Bicycle Drummer in Brighton's New Road
Brighton Festival 2015 has come and gone, and a good one it was too. It’s not just at Festival time that you see things like this in Brighton’s New Road - a shared space packed with pedestrians,...
View ArticleQuote of the Week: A Lightbulb Moment for a car guy
“In the past 100 years, the automobile has shaped the city rather than cities shaping the automobile. In the future the opposite will be the case: cities will start to shape mobility.”Chris...
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Carfree economic rockstar
Yo! I’m an economic rockstar. Apparently. Have a listen to the podcast and find out about economics, behavioural economics, being carfree and more. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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“Cities that actively promote physical activities” (that’s walking and...
That’s the BBC headline covering a new report on “Active Cities”, a meta-study based on research findings from 17 countries. One of the key findings is that, based on studies that assessed the economic...
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The road ahead for bus lanes in Brighton and Hove
An issue raised at last week’s meeting of the Brighton and Hove Transport Partnership (declaration of interest: I sit on the Partnership as a pedestrian advocate) was the online petition launched by...
View ArticleLSE Cities think tank on cars, bikes and walkability: “It’s the economy,...
There’s a great quote in a recent Financial Times article from Philipp Rode, the executive director of the LSE Cities think tank, about what’s needed to encourage high tech start-ups in the city,...
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Brighton's i360 at ground level
Close up of the “cans” for the Brighton i360, seen from the beach. Almost as impressive as the cans, is the fact that they all arrived from the Netherlands by barge (in fact, two barges), and were...
View ArticleQuote of the Week
“One day, when driverless cars arrive, we may marvel that we ever let distracted, shortsighted and occasionally drunk humans pilot large metal projectiles.”Simon Kuper, Financial Times Magazine, 10th...
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“After a day’s walking, everything has twice its usual value.”G M Trevelyan
View ArticleWalk This Way (Any Way) to be More Healthy
There are enough quotes in this article on Walking: Your Steps to Health in Harvard Health Newsletter, from Harvard Medical School to provide Quote of the Week for a whole year. The first paragraph...
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Lewes Road transport scheme wins another award for Brighton and Hove. But...
Good to see that the Lewes Road scheme keeps collecting awards, the latest being the Excellence in Cycling and Walking category at the National Transport Awards. The Lewes Road scheme, which links...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week
Why is Carphone Warehouse still called Carphone Warehouse? Especially as the most avid Smartphone users (Generation Y) are about the least likely demographic to own a car these days. See this piece in...
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Carfree: Jeremy Corbyn MP, Leader of HM Opposition
There are many extra-ordinary things about Jeremy Corbyn, recently elected leader of Britain’s Labour Party, and hence, Leader of HM Opposition: his support for nuclear disarmament and opposition to...
View Article"Secret of staying fit and healthy is ditching the car and eating homemade...
Or so said the headline to a report in the Daily Telegraph a couple of days ago. It sounds like the kind of thing this blog has been saying for quite a while now. But if it’s now in the Telegraph…All...
View ArticleWalkability - the new name of the game for US cities
Walkability – US realtors want more, because punters want more of it. According to thisarticle in today’s Huffington Post. A wake-up call for politicians, policy makers, urban planners and transport...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolutions and Uber Futures
It’s that time of year when change is in the air, best intentions are dusted off, and commitments are made. Stuff like: spend less, get fit, lose weight, walk or bike more. That sort of thing. Some...
View ArticleThought for the Day
Here’s a thought for bus-lane haters. According to Enrique Amorosa, if everyone is equal in the face of the law, a bus carrying 80 passengers has a right to 80 times the road space of those 80 people...
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RIP David Bowie: Rock’s Only Genius
I’d always thought that if David Bowie had a spiritual home town in the UK it would be Brighton. He only played here twice, both times during the hectic Ziggy Stardust period – he landed at Brighton...
View Article“The Revolution…Will Not Be Driverless”
Amid all the hype about autonomous/self-driving cars, here’s a corrective from Christian Wolmar, writing in the New Statesmen. As Wolmar says, the danger is that seeing driver-free cars as a panacea...
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Only in America
No, not Donald Trump, but, on a related topic, this t-shirt, seen in the lounge car of the California Zephyr westbound from Chicago this summer. Not only has the National Rifle Association appropriated...
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Yes, Mr Mayor
The Mayor of London has just published his Transport Strategy: Draft for Public Consultation. It’s a document from which any town or city in the UK, and many further afield, could draw lessons. As an...
View ArticleRIP Heathcote Williams
Sad to read of the death of Heathcote Williams, author of, among other things, the epic anti-car poem Autogeddon, some of which you can read here. Hard not to love a work that contains the line “Exile...
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Get Off the Bus, Gus…
…and walk a bit. And then get on another bus. Get off. And walk some more! Great to see Brighton and Hove Buses supporting active travel, with this bus spotted in Portland Road, Hove.
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