As one who has never worked an honest day in his life, the routes I choose for everyday trips tend to be ones built with an eye to the leisure cyclist, dog walker, pram pusher etc.. Even in […]

Though I know some pedant will dispute some fine detail, I’m going to generalise anyway, and say Australian bike planners are unduly smitten by Copenhagen’s and now New York’s cycle tracks, before they have really understood the […]

Getting your kicks on route 66. Flimsy motels with flickering neon. Trying to stay awake at the wheel. The only thing that interests me about driverless cars is the way they could do away with all of this tawdriness […]

My thanks to Dr Anne Lusk from the Harvard School of Public Health for the intellectual substance in what follows: Rates of obesity and chronic disease related to inactivity in the course of our days are in […]

All over the world more people are using bicycles for commuting, shopping, school trips and other things they might previously have used a car or public transport to do. Leading this is a governmental push for […]