Hedgehog Cycling
@hedgehogcycling
A cycling website based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Getting around by bike, leisure cycling, and the Tour de France. I'll follow back anyone who loves bikes.
I seem to remember there was a photo of Johnson, Cummings and bars, conveying a similar message.
What next, how breathing air came right back into fashion in 2026?
Most people don't want to live on a road which is blighted by volume through traffic, with the pollution, danger and noise that brings. Volume of traffic on residential streets has increased hugely due to general increase in traffic & navigation apps. We weren't consulted about this & don't want it.
A commitment in CWIS 3 is delivering an HS2 active travel legacy – an uninterrupted active travel route between London and Birmingham, away from traffic and connecting to towns and villages along the route hedgehogcycling.co.uk/wp/2026/06/1.... Good, but what about the north of England?
Give Cyclists Space sign spotted in Lancaster. Not sure how effective it would be in this location.
York Central (by the National Railway Museum) is getting very good walking & cycling facilities.
Do you know if they have done St Marks Road to the city centre yet? (The bit that's called Woodhouse Lane Gateway).
Filters are the way forward. This is supposedly cycle- and horse-rider friendly Woldgate, nr Bridlington. They've made it 40mph, which is a half-hearted measure and not enough to make it safe.
"Nope" is designed to irritate, please do better - this isn't X. See a summary of his initial position and 2022 pivot, attached.
LTN 1/20 describes the advantages and disadvantages of bi-directional cycle tracks.
"Cycling is great but not an option for many workers, disabled or elderly". (1) No one has ever said that everyone will be forced to cycle for all their trips. (2) Plenty of older & disabled people *can* and *do* cycle -see graphic. (3) There are other alternatives to driving like buses and trains.
Police searching for driver missing from headline www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... This is shocking from the Guardian, but par for the course.
Interesting active travel infrastructure in Chalon-sur-Saône.
Speed cushions were proposed on multiple roads in Harrogate by N Yorks Council harrogatecycleaction.org.uk/2025/01/22/i... and we had to point out the problems. They seem to have taken it on board, altho 15 months on they haven't actually done anything on the ground.
The price of diesel and petrol in France has gone up a lot since that clown Trump started bombing Iran.
It's already in the National Design Guidance LTN 1/20, as I'm sure you know. It's just a question of applying it in practice now.
Steve McNamara, representing London black cabs, thinks the problem with robotaxis is that there is no driver to shout at other road users and chase them up the street! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's disappointing that @lisabachelor.bsky.social the Guardian's main solution to Scarborough's problems is dual the A64 www.theguardian.com/environment/... Better transport links, yes. More road-building, no. The region's Routemap to Carbon Negative requires a big decrease in vehicle miles.