The Ranty Highwayman

In my last post from Zeeland province, I took a look at the new bypass around the village of Vogelwaarde.

Back in the Spring of this year, I visited the Netherlands where I took a look at a village bypass scheme, but this post is from across the border, just outside Antwerp in Belgium.

May is Living Streets' National Walking Month and for the third year in a row, and so a few weeks ago, I decided to undertake another long walk.

For my latest adventures traveling by cycle and train in the Netherlands, I headed south and west in a trip which included a foray into Belgium to visit Antwerp.

Something crystalised in my mind a little while back as I contemplated crossing a side street at a signalised junction - the idea of double standards in traffic signal design.

Back in August 2020, there was a report claiming that a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) in Ealing showed an increase in driven trip miles over 50%.

Back in the summer, I visited Rotterdam, one of my favourite Dutch cities and this time, stayed in a neighbourhood on the southern edge of the city centre.

I have been doing some work in Oxford, and on a recent visit, I had the chance to look at some historic traffic calming in East Oxford which has sent me down some research rabbit holes.

My Spring 2025 trip to the Netherlands included some time in Utrecht, one of my favourite cities, and another chance to have a look at an interesting piece of design.

Back in the summer of 2015, I spent a great couple of days with the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain having a look at what the City of Leicester had been doing for cycling and more.

Here is something a little unusual as I am cross-posting a blog post from my City Infinity website, because I think it needs as wide an audience as possible.

Over the summer, I returned to the Netherlands for a few days holiday with some of my family.

The first time I visited Bradford, it was for the train driver to change ends at the station as I travelled between Manchester and Leeds, so a proper visit was long overdue.

May is National Walking Month and this year I decided to go for a long and lonely walk which, quite frankly, I hated.

At the beginning of April, I was fortunate to be able to make another trip to the Netherlands, my ninth since 2015, and this will be the first of a few posts talking about what I saw.

At the end of March, I visited Bournemouth where I gave a talk at the BCP Council Transport Conference called "Movement, Place, Choice & Space" which I have written about on my business blog over at City Infinity.

I write this with a deep sigh.

Boxing Day called for a little bit of fresh air and with the Elizabeth Line closed, I took my folding bike out for a trip to Stratford (East London) via the District Line for a little post-Christmas cycle safari.

A couple of weeks back I had the afternoon off and jumped on a train to Norwich to give a talk at the Norwich Cycling Campaign's AGM called "Not Invented Here".

Earlier this week I was in Manchester for a conference.

There's very little to innovate in (motor) vehicle parking management and so it's nice to be able to report on something which is both simple and clever at the same time.

This post comes from London where two roundabouts have been redesigned to add protected cycling space.

When I visit the Netherlands, one of the things I enjoy doing is cycling between towns and cities because it is a great way to experience just how the cycle network operates separately to the motoring network.

Ostensibly, my trips to the Netherlands are meant to be holidays, but of course, it's impossible to switch off completely and besides, travelling is about finding out about how other people live isn't it?

I like collecting traffic engineering curiosities and the Netherlands can always be relied on for providing them; so after refuelling near the Hovenring, we headed into the edge of Veldhoven to tick something else off my list.