Danny Yee
@dannyyee.bsky.social
Oxford (ex Sydney), books, transport, education, science, mathematics. Probably mostly posting about Oxford transport, with the odd book review and some pathological polymathy. For just the book reviews: https://bsky.app/profile/dannyreviews.bsky.social
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Also, pre-LTNs and pre-Covid (2017-2019) there were 66 reported injuries per year on and inside the Iffley-Plain-Cowley-BTR-CCR triangle. Post LTNs this has reduced to 46 reported injuries per year (a 30% reduction).
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Also, pre-LTNs and pre-Covid (2017-2019) there were 66 reported injuries per year on and inside the Iffley-Plain-Cowley-BTR-CCR triangle. Post LTNs this has reduced to 46 reported injuries per year (a 30% reduction).
The 2016 changes may have marginally made things worse, but it's not very clear.
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The 2016 changes may have marginally made things worse, but it's not very clear.
Also, pre-LTNs and pre-Covid (2017-2019) there were 66 reported injuries per year on and inside the Iffley-Plain-Cowley-BTR-CCR triangle. Post LTNs this has reduced to 46 reported injuries per year (a 30% reduction).
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Also, pre-LTNs and pre-Covid (2017-2019) there were 66 reported injuries per year on and inside the Iffley-Plain-Cowley-BTR-CCR triangle. Post LTNs this has reduced to 46 reported injuries per year (a 30% reduction).
Also, the fatality happened four months before the East Oxford LTNs were put in!
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Also, the fatality happened four months before the East Oxford LTNs were put in!
I was thirty before I started calling for a UN embargo on the publication of new books until I'd caught up with the backlog.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I was thirty before I started calling for a UN embargo on the publication of new books until I'd caught up with the backlog.
I sometimes joke that I read everything "except horror fiction and theology" dannyreviews.com/subjects.html though I have read a biography of Aquinas.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I sometimes joke that I read everything "except horror fiction and theology" dannyreviews.com/subjects.html though I have read a biography of Aquinas.
Will he still need to win preselection from the local Green party members?
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Will he still need to win preselection from the local Green party members?
Magdalen Bridge, six injuries in 2017-2019 (before Edge Lane Road layout) and two in 2022-2024 (after).
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Magdalen Bridge, six injuries in 2017-2019 (before Edge Lane Road layout) and two in 2022-2024 (after).
And the layout on Magdalen Bridge is safer than the previous layout - that’s one of the most successful schemes, making probably the most efficient use of limited space.
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 AM
And the layout on Magdalen Bridge is safer than the previous layout - that’s one of the most successful schemes, making probably the most efficient use of limited space.
There have been fewer injuries per year at the Plain since the LTNs. Congestion is not a direct problem for cycling safety, and there was already too much traffic in 2016 to allow a safer design.
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
There have been fewer injuries per year at the Plain since the LTNs. Congestion is not a direct problem for cycling safety, and there was already too much traffic in 2016 to allow a safer design.
But that is going to be necessary both to reduce traffic at the Plain and to allow a redesign of the Longwall-High junction wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2022/... Magdalen Bridge itself is the busiest bus route in the UK, and the second busiest cycle route (despite the junctions at either end).
the Longwall-High junction
The junction of Longwall St and High St, in Oxford, poses some unusual design challenges. Along with Magdalen Bridge and the Plain roundabout, it is a key bottleneck in Oxford's transport network — th...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
But that is going to be necessary both to reduce traffic at the Plain and to allow a redesign of the Longwall-High junction wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2022/... Magdalen Bridge itself is the busiest bus route in the UK, and the second busiest cycle route (despite the junctions at either end).
In 1975 the council considered blocking private cars from Magdalen Bridge, and that (soon after the opening of Marston Ferry Rd) would have been the best time to do that. Now it's going to be much harder to get a bus gate on Longwall St.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
In 1975 the council considered blocking private cars from Magdalen Bridge, and that (soon after the opening of Marston Ferry Rd) would have been the best time to do that. Now it's going to be much harder to get a bus gate on Longwall St.
And even the much less ambitious redesign proposed in 2016 was blocked by the bus operators because of its likely impact on congestion. biblio.ugent.be/publication/...
Resistance to cycling infrastructure : Lessons from The Plain roundabout in Oxford
biblio.ugent.be
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
And even the much less ambitious redesign proposed in 2016 was blocked by the bus operators because of its likely impact on congestion. biblio.ugent.be/publication/...
TRL modelling suggested that "The impact of the trialled [Dutch] layout compared with an equivalent ‘conventional’ roundabout, with the same travel patterns, was to reduce capacity by a little over 40%. www.trl.co.uk/Uploads/TRL/...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
TRL modelling suggested that "The impact of the trialled [Dutch] layout compared with an equivalent ‘conventional’ roundabout, with the same travel patterns, was to reduce capacity by a little over 40%. www.trl.co.uk/Uploads/TRL/...
It's a tricky design challenge, but all the options for making the Plain safer would significantly reduce its motor traffic throughput, and so can only be considered once we have the traffic filters and other measures to reduce car use.
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It's a tricky design challenge, but all the options for making the Plain safer would significantly reduce its motor traffic throughput, and so can only be considered once we have the traffic filters and other measures to reduce car use.
Remove, restrict, and charge for car parking.
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Remove, restrict, and charge for car parking.
Oxford is the anti-Stevenage. Generally terrible infrastructure, but road-building stopped in 1971 and the councils have taken measures since 1972 to restrict car use, at least in the centre. So cycling has maintained an ~20% modal share.
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Oxford is the anti-Stevenage. Generally terrible infrastructure, but road-building stopped in 1971 and the councils have taken measures since 1972 to restrict car use, at least in the centre. So cycling has maintained an ~20% modal share.
This is the Conservatives _now_, after anyone not a social hardliner got pushed out (or jumped to the LibDems).
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is the Conservatives _now_, after anyone not a social hardliner got pushed out (or jumped to the LibDems).
Hair? Spare kidneys?
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Hair? Spare kidneys?
Also - no coincidence- one of the most dangerous places in Oxford to cycle wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2021/...
Cowley Rd is a disaster zone for cycling
This map shows the injuries from road collisions on the north-western end of Cowley Rd (the B480) between 2005 and 2019. The purple stars are serious injuries (resulting in overnight hospital stays) ...
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November 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Also - no coincidence- one of the most dangerous places in Oxford to cycle wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2021/...
I read those in the same order too! Both great books, gave me a whole new perspective after a lot of mostly straight military history read as a teenager.
November 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I read those in the same order too! Both great books, gave me a whole new perspective after a lot of mostly straight military history read as a teenager.