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Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Urban expansion: learning from 19th century London

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Paul Collier says that African cities should learn from the example of 19th century London when it comes to housing policy. London was abl...
Sunday, 14 October 2012

If you like your neighbourhood so much then let more people live there

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Matt Yglesias has an excellent post here about the lovely city of Santa Monica, which prides itself on its greenness yet has seen barely an...
Tuesday, 9 October 2012

A land value tax would be unpopular for the same reasons that it would be great

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I was surprised a while back to find that the Liberal Democrat conference policy paper on housing included a call for a land value tax (LVT...
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012

We choose how congested our roads are

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This BBC article about traffic congestion in Sao Paulo carries on like 180km traffic jams are an inescapable fact of life there and congest...
Monday, 24 September 2012

Mapping pedestrian casualties in London

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The Department for Transport publish full data on recorded road casualties on data.gov.uk , and I've been playing around with the data ...
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Problems with comments

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Apparently some comments are not appearing on the site, even though I can see them in the Blogger admin system. This seems to be a problem w...
Saturday, 22 September 2012

Reviewing TfL's road safety plan, Part 2: Which target?

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This is the second post looking at Transport for London's draft road safety plan, which is out for consultation here until the 28 Septe...
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Monday, 17 September 2012

Reviewing TfL's draft road safety plan

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Transport for London are currently consulting on a draft new Road Safety Plan for London which sets out proposed targets and policies for t...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012

More cycling than car traffic in central London during the Games?

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Just a quick post speculating on a couple of interesting bits of info about transport trends in London. First, according to @bitoclass on Tw...
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Monday, 10 September 2012

The fatal/serious bike casualty rate per km in London is 30x that for cars; And why bikes need more space because they take up so little

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TfL have published a study (under 'Research reports' here ) entitled 'Levels of collision risk in Greater London' that I thi...
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