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A yellow brick block structure with a pair of very short towers on the corners and long windows.
The view along a two-way cycle track on a bridge with a bow string arch in the middle (to the right of the cycle track) and a footway and parapet to the left. There are high rise residential blocks in the distance.
A blue cycle track is bent right through blue red and white barriers to a temporary traffic signal with space taken from the carriageway to the right. In the distance, there is a signalised crossroads full of cones and barriers and a large yellow bridge across the road with a red brick church even further away.
A controlled parking zone traffic sign for Monday to Saturday, 8.30am to 6.30pm.
A T-junction that looks like a couple of narrow roads, but which turns out to be a T-junction of cycle tracks. The main arm has a street name plate of Claridge Way and the side arm is Water Lilly Walk. In the background behind some birch trees is fence with a low building beyond and to the right, a sign saying "welcome to Hawksmoor School".
The approach to a junction where there is a nearside cycle track separated from traffic to the right by a skinny paved strip. The cycle track and main carriageway each have their own traffic signals. In the photo, a cyclist proceeds ahead on a green shown by a green cycle logo on high and low level signals and they are moving to a stop line in the distance where there is a red signal. There is a blue van in the main carriageway held by a red signal.
Two people walking over a side road on a faded buff footway between blocks of grey tactile paving with the footway just continuing over the side road. To the right is a narrow one-way road with a grey car on it. The footway and road is separated by a wide stone kerb. It's a shopping street of brightly coloured independent shops.
A Better Transport Week cartoon image. A blue bus with a person with a rucksack walking towards it as someone on a green bicycle goes right
A CAD plan of a T-junction where the main road contains a kind of elongated skinny roundabout. Those turning right from the side road have to turn left and then perform a controlled U-turn. There are orbital paths around the junction.
A Better Transport Week cartoon image. A blue bus with a person with a rucksack walking towards it as someone on a green bicycle goes right. There is white text at the bottom "Official Support Better Transport Week 2026" on an orange background below.
A black line computerised drawing of a large T-junction within which is a much smaller magenta line drawing of a seemingly more complex layout, but one which breaks all movements down so nobody has to cross more than one traffic lane at a time.
Bottom end of Deansgate Manchester A two way black cycle track with someone riding on it with a large lush rain garden beyond and an arched bridge in the background.
A mainly green background with pale green text "Official supporter" and white text "Better Transport Week 2026" over a cartoon of four people at a bus stop and with a Better Transport Week logo bottom right on a white background.
A Better Transport Week cartoon image. A blue bus with a person with a rucksack walking towards it as someone on a green bicycle goes right. There is white text at the bottom "Official Support Better Transport Week 2026" on an orange background below.
A Better Transport Week cartoon image. A blue bus with a person with a rucksack walking towards it as someone on a green bicycle goes right. There is white text at the bottom "Official Support Better Transport Week 2026" on an orange background below.
A Better Transport Week cartoon image. A blue bus with a person with a rucksack walking towards it as someone on a green bicycle goes right. There is white text at the bottom "Official Support Better Transport Week 2026" on an orange background below.
A Better Transport Week cartoon image. A blue bus with a person with a rucksack walking towards it as someone on a green bicycle goes right. There is white text at the bottom "Official Support Better Transport Week 2026" on an orange background below.
A city street with one-way traffic towards us with car parking both sides. The parking on the left is out from the kerb with a cycle lane going away from us between that and the footway to the left. There is a buff colour buffer between the parking and the cycle lane.
Road hump going across most of a narrow carriageway with drainage gaps each side. The profile is sinusoidal and a car is being driven over it.
A black cycle hoop with yellow bands and a small P and a small cycle logo with a black bicycle with red panniers locked it it. The hoop is fixed through the light coloured stone surfacing.
A pale blur-green truss bridge with concrete abutments over a river and under a blue, cloudy sky.
A woman cycles on a pale green bike into a narrow side street after crossing a large signalised crossroads with large red brick buildings in the background.
A table showing "recommended distance limit without a rest": Wheelchair users 150 metres Vision impaired people 150 metres Walking stick and cane users 50 metres Mobility impaired people without a walking stick 100 metres
A City Infinity branded mug sitting on a cork coaster on a light wooden desk with a keyboard just out of shot.
Some cycle stands with a couple of cycles parked. In the distance, a bus stop fronting a main road.
A white quadricycle which looks like a tiny van which has a side door opened to take refuse bags. On the back, a little rack holding hand tools and a large shovel. There are people walking around the street.
A big black bicycle with red pannier bags parked in front of a large sand coloured concrete rectangular block with a glass front. Hoek van Holland Strand station. There is a mast sign with a large yellow 'M' on top for Metro.
A black asphalt path with a sea wall to the right and sand dunes to the left with vegetation beyond. A person walks along next to someone using a covered mobility scooter. There is a row of lighting columns to the left powered by solar panels and little wind turbines.
A narrow street with two narrow footways in grey tile paving and a red block-paved carriageway which is wide enough for a refuse truck in one direction. There is car parking on one side of the street which swaps from the right to the left, book-ended by a pair of planters with trees to create a chicane.
My latest article which features a photo of Newcomen Street in London which is a cul-de-sac for motors, but a key cycle route and is being well-maintained. There are people cycling in the narrow carriageway and people walking on the pair of footway. Let us know if you would like a plain text version.
A narrow contemporary street with 3 and 4 storey dwellings, a home zone where drivers are guests and lush greenery everywhere. An older person cycles along in the middle-distance as they pass covered cycle parking to the left.
A buff block paved footway continues over a side street with the main road to the right and a footway to the right of that. The street it flanked by shops and the road is one-way heading away from us. The kerb to the main road carries on over the side road as well, but it is almost flush with the road surface. There is grey blister tactile paving both sides of the junction and two people are walking ahead.
A red two-way cycle track passes the end of a little side street with three story Dutch homes on both sides. The access to the side street from the main road is via a steep ramp which crosses the cycle track and buff coloured footway. There are soke bikes parked against a sign post to the right of the access.
A side road zebra with a double give way line leaving the side road, the edge of the stripes closes to the give way line being 5m max. Either side of the crossing, dotted single give way lines that can be 300mm to 3000mm. The stripes are shown 2400mm to 10000mm
A Dutch road which has a red surface. There is a side road to the left and just beyond, a couple of centre bollards on a white lozenge marking for a short cycle track before becoming a road once more, but still red. There are flats to the left, behind a footway and a canal to the right.
The view from the passenger island of a floating bus stop with a cycle track to the left and the road to the right. There is a zebra crossing over the cycle track. Someone is cycling in a hivis while people stand on the footway to the left of the cycle track in hivis.
A spoof version of an Ultra Low Emission Zone traffic sign. It is green and in landscape with white writing at the top saying "Ultra low excitement" it is over a white circle with "ULEZ" in green in the centre and then back to "ZONE" in white at the bottom. There is a panel at the very top which is white with black writing "Nine local residents" with a shield logo to the left with "NLR" in the middle. It is a really good spoof and has been properly designed!
The view along a 2-way grey block paved cycle track with an uncontrolled pedestrian crossing in the foreground with rain gardens on both sides of the cycle track with seating at the end.
The view across a harbour area with mid-ride buildings left and ahead. A view from a lower level of a snaking bridge which crosses the harbour with pillars coming out of the water.
A City Infinity branded mug sitting on a cork coaster on a light wooden desk with a keyboard just out of shot.
A coloured engineering plan showing a road going up and down with pink cycleways each side, a parallel crossing over the main road and zebras over the cycleways and a side road to the left with entrance kerbs.
A collage of numbers from different sources showing the number "2026" A white in red "2" from a Utrecht Tram A white on glass "0" from the price of a Dutch cycle parking garage A black on white "2" with part of a red roundel from a 20mph sign A white on black "6" from a London bus route number
A Christmas card. It has a black background with loads of green cycle traffic signal logos forming a Christmas tree shape plus a scattering of red and amber cycle traffic signal logos looking like decorations. At the top it says Merry Christmas in white on a red background banner with the City Infinity logo at the bottom of the card with the words "Designing for sustainable mobility" in white on the black background.
A pair of recycle black plastic posts with a board attached with the words "tic tac tow" in white comic lettering and a 3 x 3 grid of spinning circles that swap between noughts and crosses.
A square of block paving with a concrete path running off into the distance on the left and a single track railway to the right, all between rows of trees and bushes. There is a space frame metal arch over the railway side with a curved white sign on it which says in black writing: "Willkommen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Welkom in Duitsland".
A view across a row of steeply sloping ramp kerbs forming a ramp to a red block paved speed table.
My November 2025 article featuring the Beatles zebra crossing, Abbey Road, London. Do let me know if I can help with an alternative format.
A wide buff coloured path-way with a pedestrianised sea-front to the right and a buffer to the left with planting and car parking before a wide road. There is a white land-train on path-way.
The view along a skinny street with terraced houses both sides in cream render and 2/3 storeys in height. At the end, there is an external lift with glass elevating riding up out of shot with on a vegetated cliff. There are engineered walls both sides and behind the lift.
A black tandem bicycle with chrome handlebars and brown seats locked to a cycle parking hoop reserved for non-standard cycles. The paving is light slabs with a dark surround to mark the area and there are two other slabs, one showing a cargocycle and one showing the Disabled person logo.
A wide footway with a glimpse of the old Gothic shell of the cathedral to the right and the new to the left beyond some trees. The left-most quarter of the footway is paved with smooth grey-buff sandstone flags and the rest in small rough grey cobbles.
October article featuring a photo of a large signalised crossroads junction viewed from above which is devoid of traffic. If you need an alternative format, let us know and we will try to assist.
A view of a bus stop flag taken quite close and from below. At the top, it has the words "Bus Stop" over a strip depicting countryside and Gatwick Airport. At the bottom it says "Penn Crescent". In the middle is a stack of 3 liquid crystal displays with the top one saying "39 Poplar Mews 7 min".
A pale blue/ grey bridge over a path running through a park. The path dips gently down to get under the bridge. there are mature trees all around.
A battered copy of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 with a buff cover and a mug stain.
A pedestrian traffic signal showing green and displaying a rounded cartoon rabbit.
A lighting column with two flat conical lanterns. The bracket is a curved arch into which there is an outline of an ammonite curling into the space under the arch. The assembly is black and viewed against a blue sky with white fluffy clouds.
Two people cycling on a black asphalt cycle track which curves to the right with fields on both sides and trees in the distance. The cycle track is lit and has a centre line to show it being two-way.
A collection of traffic signal heads all arranged on a complex green gantry system to resemble a tree. The lights on each signal heads are showing different combinations of red, amber and green with a couple a green men too.