DeadDogBlog

Another in a series of blogposts 'inspired' by trying to get my kids to half-term/holiday activities in Edinburgh.....ie child-frien...

Despite much derision on my beloved cycling forum, I backed the Lumos helmet kickstarter a couple of years ago.  It took a while to arrive,...

When people talk about journals as 'black boxes' usually they mean things like how reviewers are chosen, and the decisions made by e...

On-line campaigns #letkidsbekids and #lettoysbetoys have done a great job of de-gendering toys, colouring books and clothes, but I've be...

One of the main 'take-aways' from the recent #roseburn meeting (more on that soon) was  that Edinburgh's already a great place t...

I spent last week looking out my kitchen window at family groups cycling down the middle of the road, mums with their handbags dangling from...

Please forgive the clickbaity-title.  I've been thinking about this post for a while, and got inspired by a discussion on the Family Cy...

Following on from my previous post , all about chainsets and gear-ratios and other things I don't really understand, I'm delighted t...

When we go cycling en famille, we are quite often all on 20" wheels - an Islabike Beinn small, currently ridden by my 5yo; my Dahon ...

What's your favourite part of Pedal on Parliament? For a lot of folk it's the quirky bikes - the velomobiles, tall bikes and unicy...

A big chunk of Edinburgh's Active Travel Action Plan covers the creation of a 'family network'  now renamed 'quiet routes...

We've lived in the UK for over 20 years, and in Scotland for 12, without needing a car.  It helps that Oxford and Edinburgh have both pr...

I ended in a bit of a twitter-slanging-match this morning.  With Stella Creasy of all people.  I've rather admired her style and approac...

My last post was about how problematic uncertainty is in cycle infrastructure.  It's since occurred to me that the problem isn't unc...

I'd like to think that the point of infrastructure was to decrease conflict and increase safety of all road users, but especially the mo...

So the anti-20mph march on Saturday was pretty much a damp squib. It was a lovely crisp sunny morning and about 40 people turned up.  ...

In March 2013 I blogged about a dropped kerb that had finally been installed, 3 years after I'd first raised with the council - and oth...

The hottest issue to hit Edinburgh cycle campaigning is...bus lanes.  Yup.  Bus lanes.  Not removing obstacle on paths, designing better inf...

This was actually a comment on my last blogpost, but it's so good I thought it deserved its own post:  As a business owner and commer...

Edinburgh Road casualties 2000-2010 Click here  to see the map in better resolution. One of the less barmy claims by some anti-20 campai...