March 2023 – City Infinity
1 post published by City Infinity during March 2023| City Infinity
We’re hoping to blow your minds a little with this post and as you read through, the little voice in your brain is the cognitive dissonance of motonormativity pulling at your synapses. Moto-w…| City Infinity
The creation, debate and adoption and law should probably be boring and something most people don’t need to worry about, but there are things which come up from time to time which people shou…| City Infinity
Designing for sustainable mobility. There always seems to be another innovation in street design, often based in exciting new technology. However, the basics are often forgotten and in reality, it&…| City Infinity
Supporting Campaign for Better Transport’s Better Transport Week 2025 We are very pleased to be supporting Better Transport Week 2025 and in “celebrating the transport that connects communities”, we would like to offer some help to community groups, campaigns or charities with that theme in mind. Our founder, Mark Philpotts, has set aside 3 days*…Read more Better Transport Week, 16 – 22 June 2025| City Infinity
On 26th and 27th March 2025, Mark attended the BCP Council Transport Conference where he gave a talk called “Movement, Space, Choice & Place. You can download his slides from our Community page, but this post is a bit of a narrative that sits behind them. The opening image of Histon Road above was chosen…Read more Movement, Space, Choice & Place| City Infinity
Cycling for transport is often seen as an urban solution, but it can solve some of our rural transport issues too. So, what are some of the issues in our rural places? Motoring has subsumed the road network which means that cycling between rural places takes place on roads where driver speed and traffic flows…Read more Rural Idyll| City Infinity
Although we need to earn a living, there are sometimes opportunities that arise that will either help exercise our brains or they’ll be a bit of fun, but which aren’t about raising an invoice. One such opportunity was NLA’s Reimagine London competition which we entered a few months ago. Sadly, our project didn’t make the…Read more Reimagine Rotherhithe| City Infinity
Engineers don’t talk about their projects enough and so in the first of an irregular series of posts, we want to bring you some little stories about what we have been working on. OK, it’s a bit about promoting our offer, but hopefully we can inspire you along the way too. The problem with old…Read more Bridging The Future| City Infinity
The use of toucan crossings has been a standard feature in the provision of shared-use paths for many years in the UK. While shared-use layouts can be perfectly reasonable in the right context, the use of toucan crossings can be problematic to users of large, non-standard, and adapted cycles; and are especially problematic for those…Read more Better Toucan Crossings| City Infinity
As a consultant, we get to work on all sorts of projects, but actually seeing things built can be a bit of a hit and miss affair. It is therefore with joy, we are able to revisit a project we delivered at the beginning of last year. The London Borough of Brent had been rolling…Read more Fruition| City Infinity
This might seem to be a relatively straightforward question, but let us just pause for a minute and consider the idea that cycling infrastructure is actually motoring infrastructure on the basis that if it wasn’t for the speed and volume of motors we wouldn’t be asking the question in the first place. That caveat should…Read more What Makes Good Cycling Infrastructure?| City Infinity
The UK has for many years pursued a “two-mode” solution to how roads and streets are managed; that is to say we have space for driving and space for walking (and this includes wheeling)…| City Infinity
When we developed our guide, The Joy of Kerbs, there were two types of standard unit missing in the UK, the “entrance block” and the “cycle track kerb”. These are units are …| City Infinity
